Henry Brown – Biography
Henry Brown is an abstract painter living and working in New York City. In his artwork, he combines mechanically drawn schematics with the painted images they generate. Flash Art describes Henry Brown’s paintings as “pattern-like geometrical constructions.” The artist works up a full sized schematic from small sketches for each painting. Henry Brown redraws the schematic directly on the gessoed canvas using compasses and rulers. Brown paints in his imagery leaving the underdrawing visible to function as a pictorial element in the finished work. He animates his brightly colored surfaces through changing spatial relationships that pull the viewer into the paintings. ArtsHouston calls Henry Brown “an abstract painter of note.”
He currently has work in MIC: CHECK (occupy) at Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY through February 26, 2012 and will be in a show at ParisConcret in Paris, France later this year. Henry Brown recently exhibited in ABSTRACTION∞ (Abstraction to the Power of Infinity) at the Ice Box and Grey Area of Crane Arts in Philadelphia, PA; American Abstract Artists 75th Anniversary exhibitions at OK Harris Works of Art in New York City and in Berlin, Germany at Galerie oqbo and Deutscher Künstlerbund; and The Big Show 6 at Silas Marder Gallery in Bridgehampton, NY. He was awarded a residency at Yaddo for 2011. In June 2010, he was included in American Abstract Artists International “L’astrazione vista da un cosmopolita” at Aragonese Castle of Otranto, in Otranto, Italy.
Brown’s paintings have been exhibited throughout the United States. Museum exhibitions include P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY; Jacksonville Museum of Contemporary Art in Florida; and Anderson Gallery at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA. He has also exhibited at McKenzie Fine Art, Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery at Hunter College, The Painting Center and White Columns, all in New York City; Gallery Sonja Roesch, Houston, TX; and Dishman Art Gallery, Lamar University, Beaumont, TX.
Henry Brown’s artwork has been reviewed and reproduced in The New York Times, Flash Art, The New York Sun, NY Arts, Jacksonville Times Union, ArtsHouston, and Houston Press. His work has been written about in numerous exhibition catalogs including Young + Brash + Abstract by John Yau and Ted Potter. The artist has also been interviewed by Houston Public Radio KUHF for The Front Row.
He has been awarded residencies at Yaddo, The MacDowell Colony and Millay Colony for the Arts.
Artist’s website: www.henrybrown.com