BIOGRAPHY

Henry Brown is an abstract painter who lives and works in New York, NY. Brown constructs geometric imagery from technical under-drawings executed on gessoed canvases. The exposed under-drawings and hard-edge geometry function together as pictorial elements in his paintings.

The imagery appears flat and fixed, but illusion creates depth. Visual perception causes surfaces to advance and recede altering spatial relationships. The fixed position coexists with the state of change. Brown’s geometry is not a confined system. It presents possibilities.

His work has been exhibited at museums including P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in Queens, NY; Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA; Jacksonville Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, FL. Brown’s paintings have also been shown at Gallery Sonja Roesch, Houston, TX; McKenzie Fine Art, New York, NY; and The Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter College, New York, NY.

He has been awarded residencies at Yaddo three times, MacDowell and Millay Colony for the Arts. In addition to exhibition reviews, Houston Public Radio KUHF interviewed Henry Brown for Front Row.

Brown has co-curated several large exhibits of reductive abstraction, at Westbeth Gallery, in New York City (38 artists); and Crush Curatorial, in the Hamptons area on Long Island, NY (24 artists).

www.henrybrown.com

SHORT BIOGRAPHY

Henry Brown is a New York City based abstract painter. His artwork has been exhibited at MoMA PS 1, Queens, NY; Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA; Jacksonville Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, FL. Brown is a three-time Yaddo artist and a MacDowell fellow. He has co-curated exhibits including at Westbeth Gallery, New York, NY. www.henrybrown.com