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Biography - Brad Brown

Born

1964 Raleigh, NC. Lives in San Francisco, CA

Education

1987 Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, BA
1982-85 University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, BFA

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2007 “Brad Brown: Piece,” Larissa Goldston Gallery, New York, NY
2006 “Brad Brown: Getting Used to Using Each Other,” Jundt Art Museum, Spokane, WA
“Collector,” Lemberg Gallery, Ferndale, MI 2006
2005 “Brad Brown: One Sixteenth for Every Quarter and Eighth,” Larissa Goldston Gallery, New York, NY
“The Wall and the Page,” Glass Curtain Gallery, Chicago, IL
“By and By,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO
2004 “Landscapes and Mugshots and (32 Witnesses),” Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2002 “The Look Stains,” Haines Gallery, San Francisco
2001 “The Look Stains,” Fassbender Gallery, Chicago, IL
2000 “Brad Brown: A Sucking System” Drawings, Susan Cummins, Mill Valley
1999 “New Etchings and a Wall Installation,” Crown Point Press, San Francisco, CA
1998 “Blind Fields,” SF Art Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Drawings,” Geof Young Gallery, Gt. Barrington, MA
“Headlands,” Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
1995 “The Liberty of Caged Animals,” Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
“A Window Exhibition,” 23rd St. Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“The Look Stains (Fragments and Notations),” Southern Exposure at Project Artaud, San Francisco, CA
1987 “Notations on an Ungiven Lecture,” VCU Art Space, Richmond, VA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2006 “Unique Prints: A Collaboration between Artist and Printer,” Stewart Gallery, Boise, ID
2005 “The Fine Art of Prints,” Stewart Gallery, Boise, ID
“Print, Process, Collaboration,” Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
2004 “Marking Time, Mapping Thought,” San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Fine Lines,” Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, CA
2003 “In the Making-Contemporary Drawing from a Private Collection”
University Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
“Works on Paper”, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2001 “Current Holdings: Bay Area Drawing”, Palo Alto Center, Palo Alto, CA
“Brad Brown, Gay Outlaw, Laurie Reid”, Crown Point Press, San Francisco, CA
“Kinds of Drawing”, Herter Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
2000 “The Great Novel Exhibition,” Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA
1998 “Continuing in California,” SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
1997 “New Work: Drawings Today,” SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
1996 “Interior Lines,” Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA
1995 “Obsession,” Southern Exposure at Project Artaud, San Francisco, CA
1994 “Selections Fall,” The Drawing Center, NY, NY
1993 “Drawing First,” Southern Exposure at Project Artaud, San Francisco, CA
“Object,” Intersection For the Arts, San Francisco, CA
“Real Wet Paint,” Victoria Room, San Francisco, CA
1992 “Wet Paint II,” Southern Exposure at Project Artaud, San Francisco, CA
1989 ”Trans—Ego,” Minor Injury Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
1987 “Juried Show” (Juror, Suzi Gablik), Student Art Space, Richmond, VA
“Six at Six,” Six Gallery, Richmond , VA
“Fetish Objects,” Students Art Space, Richmond, VA

Awards & Activities

2000 Artist in Residence, ARCUS Project, Moriya, Japan
Richard C. Diebenkorn Teaching Fellowship Recipient, SF Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
1998 California Arts Council Grant Recipient, Sacramento, CA
Member of Southern Exposure Curatorial Committee, Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1998 Guest Speaker - SFMoMA Salon, San Francisco, CA
1997 Ruth Chenven Foundation Grant Recipient, New York, NY
Guest Speaker - San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
Artist in Residence, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito , CA
Curator For “Touch,” A Show Of Emerging Artists,
Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
Artist in Residence, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
1996 Western States Art Federation Grant Recipient - Works on Paper, Sante Fe, NM
Guest Speaker - Mills College, Oakland, CA
Juror for S.F. Artspan “Selections” Exhibition, Academy of Art College Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1993 Set Design For Ellie Herman and Co.’s “Winter,” Theater for the New City, NYC
The Umbrellas, Joint Project for Japan and U.S.A.,
Assistant to Sculptor Christo Javacheff

Bibliography

Kenneth Baker, “Arresting Art in State of Fluxus,” San Francisco Chronicle, May 15, 2004
Harper’s Magazine, April 2004 issue page 27 (Illustration)
Kenneth Baker, “Stains’ Lure Eye and Imagination”, San Francisco Chronicle, April 20, 2002
Laura Richard Janku, “Brad Brown: The Look Stains”ArtResources.com, April 2002
Damian Noll, “Singular Moments Glimpsed in Chaotic Times”, Chicago Journal April 12, 2001
Maria Porges, “Brad Brown at Susan Cummins”, Art in America, March 2001
Kenneth Baker, “Brad Brown” Art News, December 2000
Kenneth Baker, “Piecing Together Meaning From Brown’s Fragments”, San Francisco
Chronicle, September 16, 2000
Kenneth Baker, “Brad Brown,” Art News, May 1998
Kenneth Baker, “Exciting Drawings Created by a Roll of the Dice,” San Francisco Chronicle February 5, 1998
Reena Jana, “New Work: Drawings Today,” Flash Art, October 1997
David Bonetti, “‘Drawings’: A Portrait of Young Artists,” San Francisco Examiner, January 29, 1997
Kenneth Baker, “Brad Brown, The Unfinished Line,” Art News, March 1995
Kenneth Baker, “Exciting Glimpse of Artist’s Process,” San Francisco Chronicle, January 8, 1994
Betty Klausner, “Brad Brown,” Art in America, July 1994
Holland Cotter, “Selections Fall “94,” N.Y. Times, September 23, 1994
Jamie Brunson, “San Francisco Fax, Brad Brown,” Art Issues, March-April 1994
Sylvia Ruben, “State of the Art in the Bay Area,” San Francisco Chronicle, January 13, 1994
David Bonetti, “Alternative Production Looks From Floor Up,” San Francisco Examiner, January 13, 1994