Glen Rubsamen

Glen Rubsamen (born 1959 in Hollywood ) is a visual artist and writer known for his paintings and photography. Rubsamen lives in Los Angeles and Düsseldorf .

Life

Rubsamen is the son of Gisela Rubsamen (nee Roth) and Walter H. Rubsamen . Walter H. Rubsamen was a professor of musicology at the University of California at Los Angeles and is best known for his work on the literary origins of secular music in 15th-century Italy and the history and politics of ballads in Scottish opera. Gisela Rubsamen is an art historian specializing in the Italian Baroque . Glen Rubsamen is the younger of two children. His older sister Valerie Rubsamen was Professor of Political Science at Swarthmore College (retired) and the author of a variety of books.

He studied fine arts at the University of California in Los Angeles, where he graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1978 and a master's degree in 1981.

Rubsamen lives with the US artist Rita McBride in Los Angeles and Düsseldorf.

Books

Rubsamen is the author and co-author of a large number of experimental, often futuristic and posthumanistic-looking books in the field of fiction such as the artist's book: Futureways (2005) consists of a collection of short stories by several authors that describe an exhibition in the future. Those Useless Tress is an artist book about the relationship between trees and the new global urbanism. Rhynochophorus ferruginous is a study of a parasite that caused the death of millions of palm trees in the Middle East and the Mediterranean, and that has had a significant impact on tourism culture. Rubsamen wrote a text himself for the artist book Take All the Time You Need , which is a combination of a monograph of paintings and an agenda for the next fifty years.

Painting and photography

His paintings and photographs can be characterized by an interest in condensed, collected situations in nature that are characterized by a great dramatic intensity in the romantic tradition, such as sunrises and sets, exuberant vegetation or apocalyptic images. Rubsamen shows an uninhabited and almost aggressive world through abrupt combinations of different perspectives and enormous foreshortening of objects and trees. It is an attacked nature that makes us think of the devastating consequences of meteorological or technological catastrophes. Together with an absence of human signs, his paintings and photographs, which tend to be monochrome, lack a spatiotemporal dimension, which creates a mood of calm and spirituality. In Rubsamen's paintings of nature, nature appears less organic than artificial.

Individual evidence

↑ In Memoriam: Walter Howard Rubsamen, Music: Los Angeles. In: University of California. Accessed April 3, 2020 (English).
^ Gisela Rubsamen: The Orsini inventories . J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu 1980, ISBN 0-89236-010-0 .
^ Rita McBride and Glen Rubsamen (Eds.): Futureways . ISBN 978-1-55152-172-5 .
↑ Christoph Keller (Ed.): Those Useless Trees . ISBN 978-3-86588-168-7 .
↑ Glen Rubsamen: Rhynchophorus ferrugineus . New York 2013, ISBN 978-0-9883404-6-6 .
↑ Glen Rubsamen. Take All the Time You Need . Nuremberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-941185-48-7 .

personal data
SURNAME	Rubsamen, Glen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American visual artist and author
DATE OF BIRTH	1959
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hollywood

[1] In Memoriam: Walter Howard Rubsamen, Music: Los Angeles. In: University of California. Accessed April 3, 2020 (English).

[2] Gisela Rubsamen: The Orsini inventories . J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu 1980, ISBN 0-89236-010-0 .

[3] Rita McBride and Glen Rubsamen (Eds.): Futureways . ISBN 978-1-55152-172-5 .

[4] Christoph Keller (Ed.): Those Useless Trees . ISBN 978-3-86588-168-7 .

[5] Glen Rubsamen: Rhynchophorus ferrugineus . New York 2013, ISBN 978-0-9883404-6-6 .

[6] Glen Rubsamen. Take All the Time You Need . Nuremberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-941185-48-7 .