{"id":175834,"date":"2026-10-28T11:57:53","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T15:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=175834"},"modified":"2026-10-28T11:58:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T15:58:27","slug":"elizabeth-glaessner-big-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2026\/10\/28\/elizabeth-glaessner-big-head\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Fall Issue Cover: Elizabeth Glaessner\u2019s <em> Big Head <\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_175835\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-175835\" class=\"wp-image-175835 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/img-0168-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Elizabeth Glaessner in her studio in Brooklyn. \" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/img-0168-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/img-0168-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/img-0168-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/img-0168-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/img-0168-1-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-175835\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elizabeth Glaessner in her studio in Brooklyn. Photograph by Hazel Byers.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>Our recent Fall issue features a painting titled <\/em>Big Head<em>,\u00a0by the Brooklyn-based artist Elizabeth Glaessner: a nearly-seven-foot piece that, for the cover of issue no. 257, we shrank down to approximately six inches by five. This September, we visited Glaessner at her studio in East Williamsburg to take a closer look at her process and to hear the origin story of the painting. On display beside other large-scale works were replicas of the same images, only smaller; we learned that Glaessner paints the same motifs over and over again\u2014often with one hand leaning against the wall, leaving multicolored prints beside her paintings.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">INTERVIEWER<\/p>\n<p>Where did the idea for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/art-photography\/10771\/issue-no-257-cover-elizabeth-glaessner\"><em>Big Head <\/em><\/a>come from?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">ELIZABETH GLAESSNER<\/p>\n<p><em>Big Head<\/em> started with a drawing of a smaller figure emerging from a mouth, an image based on childhood experiences involving fear and religion. I was curious to see if I could reframe some of that imagery through painting.<\/p>\n<p>I looked at depictions of exorcisms or cleansing rituals in painting and film and made some works based on those, as well as on the original drawing and from memory. That smaller figure being exorcised in the original drawing reappears in <em>Big Head<\/em>, in the lower left-hand corner, as a figure painting the mouth from which it emerged. What started as a memory of control and submission became a painting that was also about release and reflection.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_175872\" style=\"width: 2570px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-175872\" class=\"wp-image-175872 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/bigheads-scaled.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/bigheads-scaled.png 2560w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/bigheads-300x166.png 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/bigheads-1024x565.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/bigheads-768x424.png 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/bigheads-1536x848.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/bigheads-2048x1131.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-175872\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elizabeth Glaessner, <em>Spirit Rising study<\/em>, 2025, charcoal on paper (LEFT). Elizabeth Glaessner, <em>Big Head<\/em>, 2025, oil on linen (RIGHT). \u00a9 Elizabeth Glaessner. Both images courtesy of Elizabeth Glaessner and P\u00b7P\u00b7O\u00b7W, New York, photograph by JSP Art Photography.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>So much changes during the process, and there\u2019s a freedom in that. When I painted that head for the final time, I was thinking about the cycle of fear, violence, and control, but I was also thinking about the absurdity of painting a figure who is painting this giant head in a studio. I guess I\u2019m always hoping to learn something through painting. That\u2019s where some of the pleasure comes from, when the painting becomes something I wouldn\u2019t have anticipated.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_175851\" style=\"width: 1809px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-175851\" class=\"wp-image-175851 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/img-0150-2-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1799\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/img-0150-2-1-scaled.jpg 1799w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/img-0150-2-1-211x300.jpg 211w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/img-0150-2-1-720x1024.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/img-0150-2-1-768x1093.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/img-0150-2-1-1079x1536.jpg 1079w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/img-0150-2-1-1439x2048.jpg 1439w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-175851\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Hazel Byers.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">INTERVIEWER<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a lot of water in these paintings.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">GLAESSNER<\/p>\n<p>The show that <em>Big Head <\/em>was in was called \u201cRunning Water.\u201d I had been listening to a Daniel Johnston album while I was working, and in one of his songs he says, \u201cRunning water \/ Where are you running from? \/ You always seem to be on the run.\u201d I thought it was a beautiful and sad metaphor and, in a way, it felt connected to how I was thinking about these paintings. This idea of being in constant motion but never really escaping yourself.<\/p>\n<p>The figures were pretty porous\u2014there were bodies, but the bodies kind of interfered with or were stretched or distorted by the environment. They didn\u2019t have autonomous borders. They weren\u2019t these closed entities. There was a lot of leaking and expelling in that show.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">INTERVIEWER<\/p>\n<p>Why did you call it <em>Big Head<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">GLAESSNER<\/p>\n<p>With an intense painting, I always want to find room for humor or levity. I think titles are an opportunity to contrast the dominant feeling, and can actually make that feeling more palpable. The title kind of teases the painting. It\u2019s a tiny person painting a giant head, which sounds like it could be about the ego. I wanted to prod that idea.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">INTERVIEWER<\/p>\n<p>What else do you listen to while you\u2019re working?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">GLAESSNER<\/p>\n<p>I go through different phases. I used to listen to audiobooks or news podcasts, but recently I\u2019ve just been listening to music in the studio. If I\u2019m working on drawings or small paintings, I\u2019ll listen to something ambient so that I can focus and hear myself think. When I work on a larger scale, I\u2019ll listen to whatever helps me get into the right mood for the painting. If it goes well, then I\u2019ll listen to that album on repeat until I\u2019ve moved on. It helps me get into this trance state.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">INTERVIEWER<\/p>\n<p>What are you reading now?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">GLAESSNER<\/p>\n<p>I just picked up <em>No Longer Human <\/em>by Osamu Dazai. I think it\u2019s about alienation, or what it\u2019s like to be human but not feel it\u2014we\u2019ll see.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_175837\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-175837\" class=\"wp-image-175837 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/img-0138-2-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/img-0138-2-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/img-0138-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/img-0138-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/img-0138-2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/img-0138-2-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-175837\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Hazel Byers.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Hazel Byers is the\u00a0<\/em>Review<em>\u2019s engagement editor.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Izzy Casey is the<\/em> Review<em>\u2019s business and events manager.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Elizabeth Glaessner is a visual artist.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe title kind of teases the painting. 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