"ear the dawn of the twenty-first century, Brian Dettmer was primarily a painter. But one day he embarked on a series of works where he applied the torn pages of newspapers and books to his canvases."
""I liked the idea that the information actually existed there on the canvas, even though it wasn't really readable," he recalls on a recent phone call."
Near the dawn of the twenty-first century, Brian Dettmer worked primarily as a painter. He began a series of works that incorporated torn pages from newspapers and books adhered to canvases. The embedded printed material remained visibly present while largely unreadable, creating a tension between legibility and surface texture. The pieces fused printed matter with painterly composition, using found media to add layered cultural and informational presence to the canvas. The approach reframes pages as sculptural and pictorial elements, emphasizing form, pattern, and the residue of meaning rather than direct narrative content.
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