Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held at The Jewish Museum San Francisco, San Francisco, March 7 - June 27, 2004. Traveled to Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, July 24 - October 3, 2004; and Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, June 9 - September 4, 2005. ... [details]
"Gas, Food, and Lodging is a series of paintings by Glen Rubsamen from 2020. The book includes 19 color illustrations from this series and an essay explaining the social and political implications of the works by Iván Aimé Valenciano. ... [details]
"Détournement (literally, diversion or hijacking), is the act of turning the expressions, both visual and literary, of the capitalist system and its mediatized military culture against itself. In Glen Rubsamen''s War Series this détournement is directed against an increasingly intrusive and instrumentalizing technocratic culture whose function is the manufacture of consent through the manipulation of symbols. ... [details]
"In his series of paintings ‘Environmental Catastrophes Top Ten And Other Abominations'' Rubsamen pokes fun at our need to make lists and hierarchies to codify the bad and the good. If we Google ‘Worst man-made environmental disasters in history'' the screen fills with sites offering lists. ... [details]
"Things that look like nature have a tendency not to be seen, they disappear themselves. I have been photographing and painting mobile phone transmitter towers for the last few years and recently more and more of them have been disguised as trees. ... [details]