James Brown (painter)

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James Brown (born October 26, 1951 in Los Angeles - † February 22, 2020 ) was an American painter , sculptor and graphic artist .

Life

After graduating from college, Brown attended the Ècole nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris . He rejected the teaching there and was rather enthusiastic about the works of older art, such as the Gothic and Renaissance, which he got to know while traveling through Italy and other European countries. Together with the artists Jean-Michel Basquiat , Keith Haring and Donald Baechler , he exhibited works for the first time in 1983 at the Tony Shafrazi Gallery in New York . Numerous exhibitions followed in the Leo Castelli Gallery , the Gagosian Gallery , the Pace Gallery and in the gallery of Lucio Amelio in Naples .

After spending several years alternately in New York and Paris, Brown moved with his family to Mexico in 1995 , where he began to realize joint projects with his wife. First they designed and manufactured carpets, then artist books using traditional Mexican production methods. He died in a car accident in Mexico.

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Brown's painterly work combines gestural abstraction with figurative symbols, combining influences from regional folk and tribal art with elements of classical modernism . In his drawings and gouaches, Brown develops biomorphic forms, implementing structures that he has found in nature. From 1990 onwards, the collage is another important means of expression. In 1995 the Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea in Trient devoted an extensive retrospective to Brown.

Works

  • 1983: Hula Rattles , oil on canvas, 243 × 180 cm, private collection, Naples
  • 1983: Neapolitan tryptich , lacquer on three canvases, each 270 × 200 cm, "Terrae Motus" collection , Reggia di Caserta , Naples
  • 1994: The Fasscination with Natural History , watercolor, collage on linen, 88.8 × 58 cm, Bernd and Verena Klüser Collection, Munich
  • 1994: The Fasscination with Natural History , watercolor, collage on linen, 87.5 × 59.8 cm, Bernd and Verena Klüser Collection, Munich

literature

  • Bernd Klüser (Ed.): Collection of drawings. Bernd and Verena Klüser . With texts by Christian Quaeitsch and an introduction by Michael Semff, Vol. II, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-925219-36-8
  • Jan Wagner (Ed.): Terrae Motus alla Reggia di Caserta . Fondazione Amelio, Electa Napoli e Guido editori, Naples 1992

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ James Brown (1951-2020). artforum.com, February 24, 2020, accessed on February 25, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Brown, James
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American painter, sculptor, and printmaker
DATE OF BIRTH October 26, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH los Angeles
DATE OF DEATH February 22, 2020