Glenn Sorensen - "Reproduction Buddha" - silkscreen 2008

Glenn Sorensen (born 1968, Sydney, Australia) is an artist who has been exploring still life for many years. His work focuses on carefully selected objects from his immediate surroundings—flowers, cigarettes, toiletries, a small Buddha—which he paints against characteristic deep-dark blue backgrounds with turquoise and purple accents. This gives his canvases the atmosphere of nighttime flash photography. People also appear increasingly frequently in his work, but like the objects, they have a tranquil and iconic quality. Sorensen strives for reduction and purity, often balancing the borderline of abstraction and imbuing the everyday with a mysterious charge.

He studied at the Helsinki Academy of Fine Arts and the City Art Institute in Sydney and is currently an associate professor at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. His work has been shown in solo exhibitions at venues including Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art in Copenhagen (2021), Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam (2020, 2015), Corvi-Mora, London (2019, 2016), and Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney (2012). He has also participated in international group exhibitions, including those at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm (2011) and the Musée d'Art Contemporain in Bordeaux (2010).