Christopher Brown | |
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Born | 1951 (age 72–73) |
Alma mater |
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, University of California, Davis |
Occupation(s) | artist, educator |
Known for | paintings, printmaking |
Movement | Neo-expressionism |
Website |
christopherbrownpainting |
Christopher Brown (born 1951), [1] is an American artist and educator. He is known for his paintings and prints, often figurative and feature abstract settings with repeating patterns or shapes. [2] [3] He taught at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1981 to 1994. [4] Brown has also worked as an adjunct professor at the California College of the Arts. [5] Brown's work is associated with Neo‐expressionism. [6]
Christopher Brown was born in 1951 at the United States Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune in Jacksonville, North Carolina. [1] His father was a doctor. [5] He was raised in Warren, Ohio and in Urbana, Illinois. [1]
Brown attended the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where he received a B.A. degree in 1973; followed by a M.F.A. degree in 1976 from the University of California, Davis (U.C. Davis). [1] [7] At U.C. Davis during his graduate studies, he was a student of Wayne Thiebaud, William T. Wiley, and Roy De Forest. [1] [8] [9]
Many of Brown's large scale painting works are painted from memory and he sometimes uses photographs for reference. [2] He creates collage-like arrangements within his paintings, which feature figurative images in surrealistic juxtapositions. [6] It is common to also see repeating patterns or shapes within the painting background.
In 1977, Brown had his first solo exhibition at Gallery Paule Anglim in San Francisco; and in 1995 he held his first traveling museum solo exhibition, History and Memory: Paintings by Christopher Brown, organized by the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. [5]
From 1981 until 1994; Brown served as a Professor and later as the Department Chair at the University of California, Berkeley. [1]
Brown's work is in museum collections at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, [10] the Metropolitan Museum of Art, [11] the Cleveland Museum of Art, [12] the National Gallery of Art, [13] and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. [5]
Christopher Brown | |
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Born | 1951 (age 72–73) |
Alma mater |
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, University of California, Davis |
Occupation(s) | artist, educator |
Known for | paintings, printmaking |
Movement | Neo-expressionism |
Website |
christopherbrownpainting |
Christopher Brown (born 1951), [1] is an American artist and educator. He is known for his paintings and prints, often figurative and feature abstract settings with repeating patterns or shapes. [2] [3] He taught at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1981 to 1994. [4] Brown has also worked as an adjunct professor at the California College of the Arts. [5] Brown's work is associated with Neo‐expressionism. [6]
Christopher Brown was born in 1951 at the United States Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune in Jacksonville, North Carolina. [1] His father was a doctor. [5] He was raised in Warren, Ohio and in Urbana, Illinois. [1]
Brown attended the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where he received a B.A. degree in 1973; followed by a M.F.A. degree in 1976 from the University of California, Davis (U.C. Davis). [1] [7] At U.C. Davis during his graduate studies, he was a student of Wayne Thiebaud, William T. Wiley, and Roy De Forest. [1] [8] [9]
Many of Brown's large scale painting works are painted from memory and he sometimes uses photographs for reference. [2] He creates collage-like arrangements within his paintings, which feature figurative images in surrealistic juxtapositions. [6] It is common to also see repeating patterns or shapes within the painting background.
In 1977, Brown had his first solo exhibition at Gallery Paule Anglim in San Francisco; and in 1995 he held his first traveling museum solo exhibition, History and Memory: Paintings by Christopher Brown, organized by the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. [5]
From 1981 until 1994; Brown served as a Professor and later as the Department Chair at the University of California, Berkeley. [1]
Brown's work is in museum collections at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, [10] the Metropolitan Museum of Art, [11] the Cleveland Museum of Art, [12] the National Gallery of Art, [13] and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. [5]