Adrien Brody’s $425,000 Portray That includes Marilyn Monroe Critiqued
Adrien Brody is extra than simply an Oscar-winning actor — he’s additionally a painter.
The Brutalist star is at present showcasing his newest assortment of mixed-media work titled “Made in America” at Eden Gallery in New York Metropolis, from now till June 28. The items characteristic a slew of popular culture references, together with Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse, Marilyn Monroe and Jean-Michel Basquiat.
Rats and mice are additionally distinguished within the actor’s art work — an ode to Brody’s time in New York Metropolis.
“I grew up in New York, the place rats and mice had been in every single place, and it’s symbolic to me for a lot of causes,” The Brutalist star informed Cultured journal. “I at all times felt for the rats and the mice that I’d see within the subways on the way in which to highschool — how everyone could be disgusted.
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The actor’s assortment is receiving blended evaluations, with some critics slamming his work as “mediocre” and “horrendous” whereas The New York Occasions described Brody as an “impassioned painter.”
Adrien Brody attends the amfAR gala Cannes 2025 offered by Chopard at Lodge du Cap-Eden-Roc on Could 22, 2025 in Cap d’Antibes, France. Lionel Hahn/Getty Pictures)
“With its fake naïve aesthetic and its mediocre manufacturing worth, Brody’s works beg the query: Why are we nonetheless speaking about them?” one critic wrote in artnet. “The straightforward reply is that it tends to be thought of newsworthy when a celeb reveals their artwork. (See additionally: Hunter Biden, George W. Bush, Jim Carrey, Lucy Liu, and co.) But it surely additionally appears no coincidence that stated artwork usually tends to be fairly subpar. Fame tends to afford a sure aura to the individuals who obtain it, and followers will at all times comply with.”
A portray of Brody’s that includes a cut-out picture of Marilyn Monroe in opposition to a collaged background just lately offered on the amfAR Cannes Gala for a whopping $425,000. Man Klimovsky, Eden Gallery’s chief govt, informed the Occasions that Brody is “actual” and “himself.”
“Sure, individuals will come as a result of it’s him, however they may overlook,” he continued of the actor’s artwork quick. “As a result of after I see an art work, with out figuring out who made it, the artworks are wealthy. They’re fascinating. They’ve a narrative connection to the U.S., the story of the U.S., to the icon of the U.S.”
Nonetheless, artwork critic Annie Armstrong wrote that she has spent “sufficient mind cells attempting to dissect” the actor’s work.
“The one noticeable distinction between Brody’s efforts and people of any garden-variety red-chip artist is how usually he peppers in his personal visage,” Armstrong continued in her “Moist Paint” column.
On the similar time, Armstrong praised Brody for making what she referred to as “an fascinating transfer.”
“A lot red-chip artwork depends on movie star iconography, so it’s intriguing to see a papier-mâché cut-out of Brody himself plastered to a canvas with an outsized Basquiat crown painted over his head,” she continued. “He understands the canon.”
Recent off his 2025 Oscars win for his work in The Brutalist, Brody informed The New York Occasions that he’s throwing himself again into his art work as a result of he’s sans any film or TV work.
“I’m an unemployed actor in the mean time,” he informed the publication in a overview printed on Wednesday, June 4. “I do know that if I don’t do it now, I gained’t do it for one more lengthy time frame. It’s type of this time to let it go.”