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.”
Brown works up full sized schematics from small sketches and draws them directly on the gessoed canvases using compasses and rulers. He then paints the imagery, leaving the underdrawings visible to function as a pictorial elements in the finished work. Brown 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.”
His 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, Jacksonville, FL; and Anderson Gallery at Virginia Commonwealth University, 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, Houston Press and 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 The MacDowell Colony, Yaddo and Millay Colony for the Arts.
Artist’s website: www.henrybrown.com