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. He then 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.”
In June 2010, he was included in American Abstract Artists International “L’astrazione vista da un cosmopolita” at Aragonese Castle of Otranto, BAU Institute, in Otranto, Italy. This exhibition is expected to travel. In 2011, Henry Brown will be showing in an exhibition at the Ice Box and Grey Area, Crane Arts in Philadelphia, PA. This is one of Philadelphia’s newest and largest art venues
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, Houston Press. His work has been written about in numerous exhibition catalogs including Young + Brash + Abstract by John Yau and Ted Potter. The artist was recently 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