Brian Dettmer

b. 1974, Chicago; lives in New York

Wikipedia Entry

Brian Dettmer is an American contemporary artist. He is noted for his alteration of preexisting media—such as old books, maps, record albums, and cassette tapes—to create new, transformed works of visual fine art.

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Featured Exhibitions
Wallace Berman, Untitled, c. 1960.
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A Human Document: Selections from the Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry

Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) will present an extensive selection of works from the Miami-based collection of Ruth and Marvin Sackner. Founded in 1979, this “archive of archives” initially focused on concrete and visual poetry—including rare manuscripts and published works by international luminaries such as Augusto and Haroldo de Campos, Oyvind Fahlström and Eugen Gomringer.
an opened book positioned on a display case
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The Artist as Poet: Selections from PAMM’s Collection

With a nod to Surrealism and its use of everyday materials, subversion of common objects, and incorporation of poetic language, this exhibition celebrates how the characteristics of the poème-objet (poem-object) are present in contemporary art.