Henry Brown - Curatorial
Short Curatorial Bio
Henry Brown is an abstract painter based in New York City. He has curated large exhibitions, including a 38-artist show at Westbeth Gallery, New York, NY (2018) and a 24-artist show at Crush Curatorial (now Hesse Flatow East), Amagansett, in the Hamptons on Long Island, NY (2016). They have been reviewed in ArtNews, Hamptons magazine, The East Hampton Star and Hamptons Art Hub. Brown was a juror for Apexart’s NYC Exhibition Program 2026-27 and International Exhibition Program 2025-26.
Beyond Black and White
Curated by Henry Brown and Li Trincere
Westbeth Gallery
55 Bethune St, New York, NY
January 6 - 27, 2018
Beyond Black and White was an exhibition of black and white based abstraction that goes past the limits of these two colors. Some of the painters create variations in different blacks and whites, paint using the grey tones that come in between. Others set additional color against black and white as a counterpoint in their palette. A number of the artists incorporate black and white as a physical component in their artwork. They go beyond black and white color using pigment as a concrete material. Beyond Black and White provided an opportunity to examine this important niche within contemporary abstraction.
The exhibiting artists were René Pierre Allain, Lisa Beck, Sharon Brant, Michael Brennan, Henry Brown, Jacob Cartwright, Vincent Como, Mark Dagley, Laura Duerwald, Cris Gianakos, Elizabeth Gregory-Gruen, Daniel Hill, Gilbert Hsiao, Heather Hutchison, James Hyde, Debra Jenks, Melissa Kretschmer, Robert Ludwig, Stephen Maine, Tom Martinelli, Gelah Penn, David Rhodes, Ivo Ringe, Michael Rouillard, Cordy Ryman, Steven Salzman, Karen Schifano, Michael Scott, David Seccombe, Li Trincere, Kim Uchiyama, Ken Wade, Dan Walsh, Mark Williams, Joan Witek, Douglas Witmer, Jean Wolff, Patricia Zarate
Westbeth Gallery is a nonprofit gallery that features the work of resident artists and independently curated exhibitions. The 2900 square foot gallery is located on the first floor of the Westbeth Artists’ Housing complex.
Territory
Curated by Henry Brown, Karen Hesse Flatow and Li Trincere
Crush Curatorial (now Hesse Flatow East)
Amagansett, The Hamptons, Long Island, NY
June, 2016
Territory has a double meaning. It refers to an area of knowledge or experience, the artists’ voice in their work, their territory. Territory also has a geographic reference to an area of land with regard to a particular type of activity or characteristic.
American Impressionists, Abstract Expressionists, and artists through the 1980s have migrated to Long Island’s East End for inspiration from the unique light, environment, and for studio space outside New York City. Artists continue to work and/or live here. A thriving art scene has grown and stakes its claim in the East End of Long Island. Territory focused on abstract artists in the 21st century. The exhibition was a cross section of abstraction being done by artists with ties to the East End of Long Island.
Artists showed work ranging from reductive abstraction and new geometry to allusive representation. Territory included art that deals with the concrete, and work that functions pictorially to create a break in space beyond the normal visual landscape. The exhibition embraced stylistic diversity and represented a variety of directions in current abstraction.
The participating artists were Eric Brown, Henry Brown, Amanda Church, Don Christensen, Peter Dayton, Gabriele Evertz, Karen Hesse Flatow, Janet Goleas, Erik Gonzalez, Christian Haub, Charlotte Hallberg, Gregory Johnston, Bill Komoski, Lauren Luloff, Rory MacArthur, Chuck Manion, Lola Montes, Drew Shiflett, Christine Sciulli, Taro Suzuki, Li Trincere, Ryan Wallace, Tad Wiley, Almond Zigmund
Landes, Jennifer. Finding a Local Aesthetic in Abstraction, The East Hampton Star. 16 June 2016.