Brice Brown (born October 10, 1972) is an American artist who lives and works in
New York City
New York, often called New York City (NYC), is the most populous city in the United States, located at the southern tip of New York State on one of the world's largest natural harbors. The city comprises five boroughs, each coextensive w ...
.
Career
Brown received his
BA from
Dartmouth College
Dartmouth College ( ) is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. Established in 1769 by Eleazar Wheelock, Dartmouth is one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the America ...
and his MFA from
Pratt Institute
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. His work has been reviewed in the ''
Artforum
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'', ''
The New York Times
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'', ''
Art in America'' and ''
The Village Voice
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'' among others. He has collaborated on limited editions with poet
Denise Duhamel
Denise Duhamel (born 1961 in Woonsocket, Rhode Island) is an American poet.
Background
Duhamel received her B.F.A. from Emerson College and her M.F.A. from Sarah Lawrence College. She is a New York Foundation for the Arts recipient and has been r ...
(for the
DVD
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animation "Laiterie") and artist Trevor Winkfield (for the
silkscreen
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portfolio "I Come In Search Of Walnuts"). Brown has held residencies at
Yaddo
Yaddo is an artists' community located on a estate in Saratoga Springs, New York. Its mission is "to nurture the creative process by providing an opportunity for artists to work without interruption in a supportive environment.". On March ...
,
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA) is a residential artist community in Amherst, Virginia, USA. Since 1971, VCCA has offered residencies of varying lengths with flexible scheduling for international artists, writers, and composers at ...
, and
Vermont Studio Center
The Vermont Studio Center (VSC) is a non-profit arts organization located in the town of Johnson, Vermont. It conducts the largest fine arts and writing residency program in the United States, with a significant population of international artis ...
. As a writer, Brown was an art critic for ''
The New York Sun
''The New York Sun'' is an American Conservatism in the United States, conservative Online newspaper, news website and former newspaper based in Manhattan, Manhattan, New York. From 2009 to 2021, it operated as an (occasional and erratic) onlin ...
'' from 2005 to 2008, and for City Arts from 2009 to 2010, and has written numerous exhibition catalog essays. He also published and edited an annual arts journal called ''
The Sienese Shredder'' from 2006 to 2009. He is the current President of the Board of Directors of Visual AIDS in New York City.
Art
Selected solo exhibition
;2014
*I looked down, I realized I had a body; Projective City; Paris, France; Paris-Scope @ Mixed Greens; New York, NY.
;2013
*Rosebud; site-specific mural installation during Texas Contemporary Art Fair; Houston, TX. In conjunction with Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY.
;2012
*HOMUNCULUS; Schroeder Romero; New York, NY.
;2011
*Service Everyday (Dish Queens); The Box at The Standard Hotel, Los Angeles, CA.
;2010
*Queening; Schroeder Romero; New York, NY.
;2009
*Service Every Day (Dish Queen); Jeff Bailey Gallery; New York, NY.
*Regal Giant; installation at PULSE Miami; Miami, FL.
;2008
*American Boy; Francis M. Naumann Fine Art; New York, NY.
;2007
*Selling the sound of my voice; vertexList; Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Collaboration with Alan Shockley.
*Compasses are banished; Francis M. Naumann Fine Art; New York, NY.
;2005
*Walnuts; Della Brown Taylor Gallery, Davis Fine Arts Building, West Virginia State University; Institute, WV.
Selected group exhibition
;2014
*The Age of Small Things; DODGE gallery; New York, NY. Curated by Chuck Webster.
;2013
*Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase: An Homage; Francis M. Naumann Fine Art; New York, NY.
*how you gonna get back to jersey?;
Planthouse; New York, NY.
;2012
*Dartmouth Alumni Exhibition; The Black Family Visual Arts Center, Hanover, NH.
*Summer Camp; Schroeder Romero; New York, NY.
*Published by the Artist; International Print Center; New York, NY.
;2009
*It's a Schro Ro Summer!; Schroeder Romero; New York, NY.
*Play it Forward; Schroeder Romero; New York, NY.
*Collage London/New York; Fred
ondon London, UK. In conjunction with Pavel Zoubok Gallery.
*Inside Abstraction; Janet Kurnatowski gallery; Brooklyn, NY.
;2008
*Manufactured Unreality; Francis M. Naumann Fine Art; New York City, NY.
;2007
*Demoiselles Revisited; Francis M. Naumann Fine Art; New York City, NY.
*Cut, Copy, Fold; Artist Image Resource; Pittsburgh, PA. Curated by
Kim Beck.
*Sosabul International Exhibition; Pyeongtaek City, South Korea.
;2006
*Brice Brown and Don Joint: A Marriage in Paint; William Way Gallery; Philadelphia, PA.
*Abstract Landscapes; Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor Cultural Center; Staten Island, NY. Curated by Trevor Winkfield.
*Point of Departure; Gallery 111; DUMBO, Brooklyn, NY.
;2004
*Brice Brown and Don Joint: A Marriage in Paint; Francis M. Naumann Fine Art; New York, NY.
*f#@k perfection; vertexList; Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY.
*The Recurrent Haunting Ghost: Reflections of Marcel Duchamp in Modern and Contemporary Art; Francis M. Naumann Fine Art; New York City, NY.
;2003
*The Big Abstract Show; The Painting Center, New York City, NY. Curated by Denise Gale.
*Art in a Changing World; Mahady Gallery, Marywood University; Scranton, PA. Curated by Lance Esplund.
Public collections
Brown's work is included in the public collections of:
*
Speed Art Museum
The Speed Art Museum, originally known as the J.B. Speed Memorial Museum, now colloquially referred to as the Speed by locals, is the oldest and largest art museum in Kentucky. It was established in 1927 in Louisville, Kentucky, on Third Street ...
; Louisville, KY
*
Baltimore Museum of Art
The Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) in Baltimore, Maryland, is an art museum that was founded in 1914. The BMA's collection of 95,000 objects encompasses more than 1,000 works by Henri Matisse anchored by the Cone Collection of modern art, ...
, Baltimore, MD
*
Yale University
Yale University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Stat ...
, New Haven, CT
*
Dartmouth College
Dartmouth College ( ) is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. Established in 1769 by Eleazar Wheelock, Dartmouth is one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the America ...
, Hanover, NH
Sienese Shredder
Brown was editor of ''
The Sienese Shredder'', an annual arts and literary journal published from 2006 to 2010. Besides acting as editor, Brown contributed interviews, critical essays, and art to the publication.
He continues to helm Sienese Shredder Editions,
an
editions- and
print-publishing project that has produced multiples with
Miles Champion,
Jane South,
Chuck Webster,
John Yau
John Yau (born June 5, 1950) is an American poet and critic who lives in New York City. He received his B.A. from Bard College in 1972 and his M.F.A. from Brooklyn College in 1978. He has published over 50 books of poetry, artists' books, ficti ...
, and
Trevor Winkfield.
Arts criticism
Brown was an arts critic at ''
The New York Sun
''The New York Sun'' is an American Conservatism in the United States, conservative Online newspaper, news website and former newspaper based in Manhattan, Manhattan, New York. From 2009 to 2021, it operated as an (occasional and erratic) onlin ...
'' from 2006 to 2008, and for City Arts from 2009 to 2010. He focused on design, decorative arts and antiques.
;2007
"The Soul of the Painting" at Lowy''The New York Sun'', January 5, 2007. Exhibition review.
"A Masterpiece in Thread" at the Brooklyn Museum''The New York Sun'', January 25, 2007. Exhibition review.
"A Ravenous Obsession" at The Frick''The New York Sun'', March 8, 2007. Exhibition review.
"Form and Function" at Bard Graduate Center''The New York Sun'', March 22, 2007. Exhibition review.
"A Tale of Two Cities" at Onassis Cultural Center''The New York Sun'', April 26, 2007. Exhibition review.
"The Center of the Storm" at Williams College Museum of Art''The New York Sun'', July 19, 2007. Exhibition review.
"Uniting the Wild and the Rigid" at Bard Graduate Center''The New York Sun'', July 26, 2007. Exhibition review.
"Ingo Maurer" at Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum''The New York Sun'', September 27, 2007. Exhibition review.
"The Father of Modern Design" at Cooper-Hewitt''The New York Sun'', September 27, 2007. Exhibition review.
;2006
*"Apres Nous, Le Deluge" Francis M. Naumann Fine Art; New York City, NY. Catalog essay.
*"Carl Plansky" Fischbach Gallery, New York City, NY. Catalogue essay.
"Design for the Good Life-Modern Master; Lucien Lelong, Couturier 1918–1948"''The New York Sun'', March 21, 2006. Exhibition review.
"An Artist's Gamble" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art ''The New York Sun'', April 27, 2006. Exhibition review.
"Beasts to Wash Away the Corporeal World" at Bard Graduate Center ''The New York Sun'', July 13, 2006. Exhibition review.
"The Little Factory that Could – A Taste for Opulence: Selections from the Collection"''The New York Sun'', March 9, 2006. Exhibition review.
"A Universe of Forms and Ideas" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art''The New York Sun'', September 6, 2006. Exhibition review.
"Buried Treasure" at Asia Society''The New York Sun'', October 3, 2006. Exhibition review.
"The Medium is the Mass-Produced Message" at MoMA''The New York Sun'', October 12, 2006. Exhibition review.
"An Inside Voice" at Neue Gallery''The New York Sun'', November 2, 2006. Exhibition review.
;2005
*"One Coll Story after Another: Women Artists from the Collection of Dr. Gina Puzzuoli;" The Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV. Catalog essay.
;2001
*"Grace Martin Taylor: An American Modernist" The Orange Chicken Gallery, New York, NY. Catalog essay.
;2000
*"Freaks, Geeks and Carnies;" The Orange Chicken Gallery; New York, NY. Catalog essay.
Selected bibliography
*2013 Rosenberg, Karen, "Art in Review: Marcel Duchamp: Nude Descending a Staircase: An Homage." The New York Times, March 14.
*2012 "Critics Pick." Time Out New York, June 17.
*2012 Mason, Brooke "Houston Art Fair: Happy Trails in Houston." artnet.com.
*2010 Cohen, David "Shows to See." NewYorkSun.com.
*2010 Cohen, David "Brice Brown: Queening." NewYorkSun.com.
*2010 Patel, Alpesh Kantilal "Critic's Pick, Brice Brown: Queening." Artforum.com.
*2007 Landi, Ann "Ladies of Considerable Repute." ARTnews.
*[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/10/arts/art-in-review-brice-brown.html?exprod=permalink&partner=permalink 2006 Glueck, Grace. "Art in Review: Brice Brown: Compasses are Banished." ''The New York Times'', March 10, 2006.]
*2005 Leffingwell, Edward
"Brice Brown and Don Joint at Francis M. Naumann Fine Art."''Art in America'', January 2005, p. 130
*2005 Williams, Amy. "Poultry and Poetry in Art.
www.thegazz.com October 11, 2005.
*2004 Frank, Peter. "Brice Brown and Don Joint: A Marriage in Paint.
www.articles.org May–June 2004, #0
*2004 Walentini, Joseph. "Brice Brown: May Artist Profile."
ttps://www.abartonline.com/ Abstract Art Online 2003
*2003 Walentini, Joseph. "Reviews: The Big Abstract Show at the Painting Center.
Abstract Art Online 2003
*200
www.artnet.com"New York Shows Explore Dada & Surrealism: The Recurrent Haunting Ghost: Reflections of Marcel Duchamp in Modern and Contemporary Art." October 14, 2003
References
External links
Brice Brown's website
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1972 births
Living people
Artists from Louisville, Kentucky
Dartmouth College alumni
Pratt Institute alumni