About the Artist
Paintings
Henry Brown’s paintings are mechanically drawn geometric abstractions. He forms his imagery from structural schematics constructed with compass and ruler. The schematics are developed from small sketches and then drawn directly on the gessoed canvases. Henry Brown paints the images, but leaves the underdrawings visible to show the substructure, planning and execution of his artwork.
The artist uses mechanical drafting techniques and paints with flat unmodulated color. Yet Henry Brown retains a handmade quality in his artwork, seen in the knifed finish of the gessoed layers, variations in pencil lines and eccentricities of the painted edges.
His imagery appears to be fixed spatially, but visual perception triggers sensations of movement. Depth shifts as surfaces advance and recede. Henry Brown animates the surfaces of his abstract paintings with systems of perspective, dynamic structures, and changing figure-ground relationships.
American Abstract Artists International: 75th Anniversary
ParisCONCRET
5 rue des Immeubles Industriels
75011 Paris, France
Saturday, March 10 to Saturday, March 31
also open Monday, April 9
Vernissage le 10 mars 17h-20h - jusqu'au samedi 31 mars
ouverture exceptionnelle le lundi 9 avril 14h/18h
American Abstract Artists (AAA) is a democratic artist-run organization, founded 75 years ago, to promote and foster public understanding of abstract and non-objective art. To date AAA has organized over 120 exhibitions of its membership in museums and galleries across the United States and abroad. American Abstract Artists was a predecessor to the New York School and Abstract Expressionism, and contributed to the development and acceptance of abstract art in the United States. It is one of the few artists’ organizations to survive from the Great Depression and continue into the 21st century.
ParisCONCRET is a focal point in Paris for new non objective art and international collaborative projects. ParisCONCRET shows contemporary work which falls within the broad field known as concrete—in other words non objective work. The work may be reductive, minimal, process oriented, site specific, single image or geometric abstraction—but always l’art concret in either 2 or 3 dimensions.
This exhibition at ParisCONCRET traveled from Otranto, Italy and Berlin, Gemany.
Exhibiting artists included Richard Anuszkiewicz, Martin Ball, Siri Berg, Emily Berger, Susan Bonfils, Sharon Brant, Henry Brown, James O. Clark, Mark Dagley, Matthew Deleget, Ruth Eckstein, Gabriele Evertz, Heidi Gluck, James Gross, Lynne Harlow, Mara Held, Daniel G. Hill, Gilbert Hsiao, Phillis Ideal, Julian Jackson, James Juszczyk, Cecily Kahn, Steve Karlik, Marthe Keller, Victor Kord, Irene Lawrence, Mon Levinson, Jane Logemann, Vincent Longo, David Mackenzie, Stephen Maine, Katinka Mann, Nancy Manter, Rossana Martínez, Creighton Michael, Manfred Mohr, Judith Murray, John Phillips, Lucio Pozzi, Leo Rabkin, David Reed, Ce Roser, Irene Rousseau, David Row, Edward Shalala, Richard Timperio, Clover Vail, Don Voisine, Merrill Wagner, Stephen Westfall, Jeanne Wilkinson, Mark Williams, Thornton Willis, Kes Zapkus, and Nola Zirin.
Recent Exhibits and Residencies
News About Henry Brown: recent exhibitions include ABSTRACTION∞ at The Icebox and Grey Area at Crane Arts in Philadelphia, PA; American Abstract Artists 75th Anniversary at OK Harris in NYC; The Big Show 6 at Silas Marder Gallery in Bridgehampton, Long Island, NY; and American Abstract Artists / 75th Anniversary at Galerie oqbo and Deutscher Künstlerbund in Berlin, Germany. He was also awarded a residency at Yaddo for 2011.