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Sideshow Gallery
319 Bedford Ave
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
January 5 – March 24, 2013
Henry Brown, Vignette 2009
Henry Brown exhibited in Sideshow’s annual event. This year’s exhibit included work by over 450 artists.
American Abstract Artists International: 75th Anniversary
ParisCONCRET
5 rue des Immeubles Industriels
75011 Paris, France
Saturday, March 10 to Saturday, March 31, 2012
also open Monday, April 9
Vernissage le 10 mars 17h-20h - jusqu'au samedi 31 mars, 2012
ouverture exceptionnelle le lundi 9 avril 14h/18h
American Abstract Artists (AAA) is a democratic artist-run organization, founded 75 years ago, to promote and foster public understanding of abstract and non-objective art. To date AAA has organized over 120 exhibitions of its membership in museums and galleries across the United States and abroad. American Abstract Artists was a predecessor to the New York School and Abstract Expressionism, and contributed to the development and acceptance of abstract art in the United States. It is one of the few artists’ organizations to survive from the Great Depression and continue into the 21st century.
ParisCONCRET is a focal point in Paris for new non objective art and international collaborative projects. ParisCONCRET shows contemporary work which falls within the broad field known as concrete—in other words non objective work. The work may be reductive, minimal, process oriented, site specific, single image or geometric abstraction—but always l’art concret in either 2 or 3 dimensions.
This exhibition at ParisCONCRET traveled from Otranto, Italy and Berlin, Gemany.
Exhibiting artists included Richard Anuszkiewicz, Martin Ball, Siri Berg, Emily Berger, Susan Bonfils, Sharon Brant, Henry Brown, James O. Clark, Mark Dagley, Matthew Deleget, Ruth Eckstein, Gabriele Evertz, Heidi Gluck, James Gross, Lynne Harlow, Mara Held, Daniel G. Hill, Gilbert Hsiao, Phillis Ideal, Julian Jackson, James Juszczyk, Cecily Kahn, Steve Karlik, Marthe Keller, Victor Kord, Irene Lawrence, Mon Levinson, Jane Logemann, Vincent Longo, David Mackenzie, Stephen Maine, Katinka Mann, Nancy Manter, Rossana Martínez, Creighton Michael, Manfred Mohr, Judith Murray, John Phillips, Lucio Pozzi, Leo Rabkin, David Reed, Ce Roser, Irene Rousseau, David Row, Edward Shalala, Richard Timperio, Clover Vail, Don Voisine, Merrill Wagner, Stephen Westfall, Jeanne Wilkinson, Mark Williams, Thornton Willis, Kes Zapkus, and Nola Zirin.
MIC: CHECK (occupy)
January 7 – March 18, 2012
Sideshow Gallery
319 Bedford Ave
Brooklyn, NY
Henry Brown, Resound 2009 (center of image)
Henry Brown recently exhibited in Sideshow Gallery’s 12th Annual extravaganza – MIC: CHECK (occupy). This masterful orchestration of hundreds of artworks never fails to astonish. 489 artists—520 works.
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 [March 18], 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.
ABSTRACTION∞
November 3 – 27, 2011
The Icebox and Grey Area at Crane Arts
1400 N. American Street
Philadelphia, PA
Curated by Janet Kurnatowski
ABSTRACTION∞ (Abstraction to the Power of Infinity) celebrated the perseverance of non-figurative and non-objective art, including the practitioners, pioneers and those working in the traditions of abstraction. This exhibition showed the recent work of 76 members of the American Abstract Artists (AAA), along with four guest exhibitors. The works exhibited spaned a variety of media including painting, sculpture, photography, installation, video, and digital computer art; vividly communicating with color, line, form and texture.
As one of the few artists’ organizations born of the Great Depression, AAA was a pivotal force in the development and acceptance of abstract art in the US. The group’s continued vitality after 75 years is a testament to the power and reach of these non-objective art forms and points to an infinite future for abstraction…This exhibition was also a tribute to Will Barnet, an esteemed member of the AAA since 1954 and also the AAA’s first centenarian.
The artists included in the exhibition were:
Alice Adams, Steven Alexander*, Eve Aschheim, Martin Ball, Will Barnet, Dennis Beach*, Siri Berg, Emily Berger, Power Boothe, Susan Bonfils, Sharon Brant, Henry Brown, Marvin Brown, Kenneth Bushnell, James O. Clark, Mark Dagley, Matthew Deleget, Tom Doyle, Tom Evans, Gabriele Evertz, Kevin Finklea*, Heidi Glück, Vito Giacalone, John Goodyear, Gail Gregg, James Gross, Lynne Harlow, Mara Held, Daniel G. Hill, Charles Hinman, Gilbert Hsiao, Phillis Ideal, Julian Jackson, Roger Jorgensen, James Juszczyk, Cecily Kahn, Steve Karlik, Marthe Keller, Victor Kord, Irene Lawrence, Mon Levinson, James Little, Jane Logemann, Vincent Longo, Katinka Mann, Nancy Manter, Stephen Maine, Rossana Martinez, David MacKenzie, Creighton Michael, Manfred Mohr, Judith Murray, Sharyn O’Mara*, John Phillips, Corey Postiglione, Joan Webster Price, Raquel Rabinovich, Leo Rabkin, Ce Roser, Irene Rousseau, David Row, James Seawright, Edward Shalala, Babe Shapiro, Louis Silverstein, Robert Storr, Peter Stroud, Robert Swain, Richard Timperio, Clover Vail, Vera Vasek, Don Voisine, Merrill Wagner, Joan Waltemath, Stephen Westfall, Mark Williams, Jeanne Wilkinson, Thornton Willis, Kes Zapkus, Nola Zirin
*Guest exhibitor
Exhibition curator Janet Kurnatowski is the owner and director of Janet Kurnatowski Gallery in Brooklyn, NY. Since opening its doors in 2004, the gallery has maintained a strong focus on showing abstract art from emerging talent as well as mid-career and established artists. Special thanks to The Golden Rule Foundation for making this exhibition possible.
The Crane Company Building was built in 1905 out of cast concrete faced with brick. It was originally used as a plumbing warehouse and later to process frozen seafood. The enormous concrete block, first floor addition functioned as a walk-in freezer. It now serves as the Icebox Project Space. The Icebox is 5,000 square feet—50' W x 100' L x 24' HT. The Grey Area at Crane Arts is a cave-like space with smoky gray walls.
American Abstract Artists 75th Anniversary
Second Gallery at OK Harris Works of Art
OK Harris Works of Art
383 West Broadway
New York, NY
May 21 – July 15, 2011
Curated by OK Harris Works of Art
Threshold 2010, 60" x 72"
Henry Brown recently exhibited in American Abstract Artists 75th Anniversary at OK Harris Works of Art. American Abstract Artists is an artist-run organization founded in 1936 to promote and foster public understanding of abstract and non-objective art. 2011 marks the 75th Anniversary of AAA. To date American Abstract Artists has organized over 100 exhibitions of its membership in museums and galleries across the United States and abroad. AAA publishes catalogs, the American Abstract Artists Journal, and member print portfolios. AAA distributes its published materials to cultural organizations internationally, documents its member history in the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, and hosts critical panels and symposia.
OK Harris was the first gallery on West Broadway and helped to inspire the development of SoHo as an art district. The gallery is a spacious facility, able to mount five one-person exhibitions simultaneously. The entire space is devoted to this exhibition.
Exhibiting artists included Alice Adams, Richard Anuszkiewicz, Martin Ball, Will Barnet, Siri Berg, Emily Berger, Susan Bonfils, Sharon Brant, Henry Brown, Kenneth Bushnell, James Clark, Mark Dagley, Tom Doyle, Tom Evans, Gabriele Evertz, Vito Giacalone, John Goodyear, Gail Gregg, James Gross, Heidi Gluck, Lynne Harlow, Mara Held, Daniel Hill, Charles Hinman, Gilbert Hsiao, Phillis Ideal, Julian Jackson, James Juszczyk, Cecily Kahn, Steve Karlik, Marthe Keller, Victor Kord, Irene Lawrence, Mon Levinson, Jane Logemann, Vincent Longo, David Mackenzie, Stephen Maine, Katinka Mann, Nancy Manter, Creighton Michael, Manfred Mohr, Judith Murray, Mary Obering, John Obuck, John Pai, John Phillips, Corey Postiglione, Lucio Pozzi, Richard Pugliese, Raquel Rabinovich, Leo Rabkin, David Reed, Ce Roser, Dorothea Rockburne, Irene Rousseau, David Row, James Seawright, Edward Shalala, Babe Shapiro, Louis Silverstein, Dick Stone, Peter Stroud, Robert Swain, Richard Timperio, Clover Vail, Vera Vasek, Don Voisine, Merrill Wagner, Joan Waltemath, Joan Webster Price, Stephen Westfall, Jeanne Wilkinson, Thornton Willis, Mark Williams, Kes Zapkus and Nola Zirin.
The Big Show 6
The Silas Marder Gallery
120 Snake Hollow Road
Bridgehampton, NY
May 21 – June 22, 2011
53 artists were commissioned to make three paintings by The Silas Marder Gallery for The Big Show 6. Two of Henry Brown’s paintings are included in the installation shot reproduced in The Southampton Press review of this exhibit.
Excerpt from the Review in The Southampton Press
While group exhibitions often strive (and fail) to achieve a sense of conceptual and visual continuity in matching artists of differing styles and approaches, this is not the case in current shows at the Silas Marder Gallery in Bridgehampton and the newly reopened and relocated Delaney Cooke Gallery in Sag Harbor.
This is particularly surprising when considering that the exhibit at Marders, which is titled “The Big Show” and features works by more than 50 artists from just about every stylistic approach, nevertheless manages to avoid becoming the cacophony of visual confusion an exhibit of this size might otherwise devolve into. This is accomplished, in no small part, due to a rather thoughtful and imaginative curatorial installation that allows the remarkably disparate works to develop dialogues with each other and which serve to help transcend their superficial aesthetic differences.
—Ernst, Eric. “Conceptual and Visual Continuity,” The Southampton Press, June 2, 2011, ill.
American Abstract Artists International / 75th Anniversary
Galerie oqbo
Brunnenstr. 63
Berlin, Germany
Deutscher Künstlerbund e.V.
Projektraum
Rosenthaler Str. 11
Berlin, Germany
May 14 – June 18, 2011
American Abstract Artists International / 75th Anniversary took place at two venues in Berlin. The exhibition included work from the current membership of American Abstract Artists and 20 German artists. Henry Brown was accepted into AAA in 2006.
Exhibiting artists include Degenhard Andrulat, Kirstin Arndt, Martin Ball, Michael Bause, Siri Berg, Emily Berger, Christian Bilger, Susan Bonfils, Sharon Brant, Henry Brown, James O. Clark, Mark Dagley, Matthew Deleget, Ruth Eckstein, Frank Eltner, Gabriele Evertz , Andreas Exner, James Geccelli ,Heidi Gluck, Thomas Grochowiak, James Gross, Lynne Harlow, Mara Held, Daniel G. Hill, Gilbert Hsiao, Ben Hübsch, Phillis Ideal, Julian Jackson, Michael Jäger, Susanne Jung, James Juszczyk, Cecily Kahn, Steve Karlik, Marthe Keller, Victor Kord, Irene Lawrence, Dirk Lebahn , Seraphina Lenz, Mon Levinson, Jane Logemann, Vincent Longo, David MacKenzie, Stephen Maine, Katinka Mann ,Nancy Manter, Bertold Mathes, Rossana Martínez, Creighton Michael, Klaus Merkel, Manfred Mohr, Maria Morganti, Judith Murray, John Phillips, Lucio Pozzi, Leo Rabkin, David Reed, David Rhodes, Ce Roser, Irene Rousseau, David Row, Jo Schöpfer, Edward Shalala, Anita Stöhr Weber, Richard Timperio, Clover Vail, Don Voisine, Merrill Wagner, Stephen Westfall , Jeanne Wilkinson , Mark Williams, Thornton Willis, Renate Wolff, Kes Zapkus, Julia Ziegler, and Nola Zirin.
Yaddo – Artist’s Residency
Yaddo Mansion
Henry Brown was awarded a residency at Yaddo for 2011. Yaddo is an artists’ community located on a 400 acre estate in Saratoga Springs, NY. It offers residencies to professional creative artists from all nations and backgrounds working in choreography, film, literature, musical composition, painting, performance art, photography, printmaking, sculpture, and video. They are selected by panels of their peers for residencies lasting from two weeks to two months. Yaddo’s mission is to nurture the creative process by providing an opportunity for artists to work without interruption in a supportive environment.