GLEN RUBSAMEN was born in 1957 in Los Angeles, where he studied at the University of California, and where he still lives and works, albeit now dividing his time between there and Düsseldorf.
Rubsamen’s craft is painting, which he treats a traditionally established medium. Yet what appears at first glance to be traditional is at the same time the very source of his subversiveness. Rubsamen shows images of places in the tradition of landscape painting, but the nature they portray is shaped by human hand and marked by civilisation, including the discarded and the technologically outmoded. The billboards furnish the space, providing light and bearing witness to the overweening pressures of a society for which no day seems long enough, such that the night must be illuminated as well – so much so that it can be seen from space. Lights and clusters of light, all telling of the sleeplessness of our world.


MAI 36 GALERIE has been hosting solo exhibitions by Glen Rubsamen since 2003. His work is shown throughout Europe and America.