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.
MIC: CHECK (occupy)
January 7 – February 28, 2012
Sideshow Gallery
319 Bedford Ave
Brooklyn, NY
718-486-8180
sideshowgallery.com
Henry Brown, Resound 2009 (center of image)
Henry Brown is exhibiting in Sideshow Gallery’s 12th Annual extravaganza – MIC: CHECK (occupy). This masterful orchestration of hundreds of artworks never fails to astonish.
For the past twelve years, Timperio has hosted a regular group exhibition at Sideshow that has become a main event in alternative art. Timperio reclaims some air from the establishment’s machine with a spectacle of his own. His group show is a demonstration of the power and the numbers of the art scene gathering across the East River on New York’s Left Bank of Brooklyn—the rising Montparnasse. For this year’s show, on view through February 26, he has gathered over four hundred artists to exhibit their work across every square inch, floor to ceiling, of his gallery’s two-room home.
—James Panero. “Gallery Chronicle”, The New Criterion, Feb. 2012.
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.