Genre
Cartoons.
CV
Born 1944 in Leeds. Lives and works in London.
Writing in the New York Times, Mel Gussons describes Baxter as "a kind of mad cross between Magritte, S. J. Perelman and Pulp Fiction."
Edward Gorey said of him, "Mr. Baxter betrays all the ominous symptoms of genius."
Glen Baxter Homepage - Biography (www.glenbaxter.com/exhibitions.html):
„Glen Baxter was born in Leeds, a tiny suburb of Belgium, in 1944. A group of radiographers, stumbling into the ruins of the Baxter ancestral home at this time, found it to be ‚composed of nothing more than irregular blocks of sandstone, graphite and lettuce’. From such unpromising beginnings sprang the elemental force now officially recognised as ‚Baxterism’.
As a young lad growing up in the shadow of the vast porridge warehouses in Leeds, Glen Baxter liked nothing more than to join his parents on their annual holiday.
However, it was not until a local magistrate persuaded his parents to enrol him at the art school that he began to experiment with sulphur, twine and charcoal.
After a brief period of chiaroscuro, the young Baxter left his native home and set out on a makeshift sled, heading for London.
Once established there, he began to continue his research into the vulcanisation of both snood and wimple. Years of hardship were to follow but then in 1976 publishing called Wyrd Press brought his work to the attention of an unsuspecting American public.
Having narrowly failed to win the Nobel Prize in 1977, Baxter chose to focus his attentions on the Netherlands. In 1979, De Harmonie in Amsterdam published a collection of his drawings entitled Atlas.“
Exhibitions (selection) 2004 - 2005 | Sète, Centre d’Art Contemporain | | Paris, Galerie Martine et Thibault de la Châtre | 2002 | San Francisco, Modernism, Selected Works, Glen Baxter: Works on paper | 2001 | Munich, Galerie Daniel Blau, Glen Baxter |
Major exhibitions of Glen Baxter’s drawings and paintings have been held in New York, Paris, San Francisco, London, Munich, Tokyo and Sydney. In 1999 Baxter was commissioned by the French government to create a tapestry to commemorate the anniversary of Richard Coeur de Lions' death. He has also worked on a series of etchings for the National Museum of Printmaking in Chatou, Paris.
His work has appeared in Vogue, Time, The New Yorker, The Observer and Le Monde, and his books are translated into French, German, Finnish, Japanese, Dutch and Arabic.
Collections (selection)
Tate Gallery, London
Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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Keystone
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