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Recent Exhibitions
MINUS SPACE
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
Long Island City, NY
October 19, 2008 – January 26, 2009
Curated by Phong Bui
Henry Brown recently exhibited in MINUS SPACE at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center. MINUS SPACE is a nonprofit curatorial project based in Brooklyn, NY, presenting innovative reductive art by international artists working in all media. Curatorial Advisor Phong Bui and MINUS SPACE brought together 54 artists from 14 countries, ranging from Australia to Brazil to New York City, for a dense and playful show of reductive art in the Café and P.S.1’s cavernous Boiler Room, two of the museum’s unique and non-traditional exhibition spaces.
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center is an affiliate of the Museum of Modern Art, and one of the oldest and largest nonprofit contemporary art institutions in the United States. This exhibition was part of P.S.1’s Fall 2008 cycle of the International and National Projects program.
American Abstract Artists: Tribute to Esphyr Slobodkina
The Painting Center, New York, NY
September 2 – 27, 2008
Henry Brown’s artwork was included in American Abstract Artists: Tribute to Esphyr Slobodkina at The Painting Center. The exhibition was dedicated to Esphyr Slobodkina (1908–2002), a founding member of AAA. It featured work by her and 75 current members as well as materials representing some of the group’s past history. Esphyr Slobodkina was the organization’s first secretary, served as president, treasurer, biographer and maintained a lifelong active involvement with AAA. The exhibition celebrated the continuity of American Abstract Artists.
American Abstract Artists is a democratic, artist-run organization, founded in 1936 to promote the exposure and understanding of abstract and non–objective art. To date American Abstract Artists has organized over 75 exhibitions of its membership in museums and galleries across the United States. AAA produces member print portfolios, publishes catalogues and an American Abstract Artists Journal, distributes its published materials internationally to cultural organizations, documents member history in the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, and hosts critical panels and symposia.
Machine Learning
Gallery Sonja Roesch, Houston, TX
March 8 – May 3, 2008
The Painting Center, New York, NY
November 27 – December 22, 2007
Boyden Gallery at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, St. Mary’s City, MD
September 4 – 27, 2007
Henry Brown, Terry Haggerty, Gilbert Hsiao and Douglas Melini
Curated by Matthew Deleget
The title of this traveling exhibition was inspired by a subfield of artificial intelligence concerned with the development of algorithms that allow computers to “learn.” Machine learning recognizes patterns within massive sets of information and has a wide range of real-world applications, the most common of which is the Internet search engine. Machine Learning explored new pattern painting and its relationship to new forms of visual intelligence in the information age.
A color catalog accompanied the exhibit. Machine Learning was reviewed in The New York Sun, ArtsHouston and Houston Press.
In the Press
KUHF Houston Public Radio Interview
Henry Brown was interviewed for The Front Row about his artwork and the exhibition, Machine Learning, at Gallery Sonja Roesch. The interview was conducted by Meghan Hendley and The Front Row was hosted by St. John Flynn. It aired April 24, 2008 on Houston Public Radio KUHF.
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