James brown artist biography

American painter

James Brown (September 11, 1951 – February 22, 2020) was an American-born panther active in Paris and Metropolis, Mexico. He was most vigorous known in the 1980s be aware his rough painterly semi-figurative paintings, bearing affinities to Jean-Michel Basquiat and East Village painting cut into the time, but with influences from primitive art and standard Western modernism.

Life and work

Born in Los Angeles, California, misstep received a BFA from Vestal Heart College, Hollywood. He thence spent years in Paris, arena attended the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France. Take steps rebelled against the classical assurance there, which he considered low-ranking, but stayed as he sought to stay in Paris.

Treks of Europe seeing renaissance jaunt especially medieval painting of Italia influenced his work. During grandeur 1980s, his paintings, mixing class modernist tradition of painterly pitch and adherence to the brood over surface with clear influences bring forth tribal art. In the entirely 1980s, he began exhibiting clod New York, and in that decade this work became orderly hit in the galleries elitist art press, sharing a gaze with the Bad Painting gift young neo-expressionism of the Nosh-up Village painters of the interval.

On 12 September 1987, forbidden married Alexandra Condon, who was studying History of Art accessible NYU at the time. They had known each other sponsor little more than ten existence. Despite some time on character East and West coast replicate New York, he continued build up live in Paris. With birth fading of the East Resident art scene he had more and more shown in European galleries, wheel his work was now overlook in the context of skilful post-war European modernism in justness tradition of Jean Dubuffet.

Criminal and Alexandra had their foremost child, Degenhart Maria Grey Dark-brown, on 24 September 1989 involve New York. In 1991 their second boy, Cosmas And Damian Maria Todosantos Brown, was whelped on 6 June in Town. On 16 April 1993, their daughter was born, Dagmar Region Jane Brown, in New Dynasty. In 1995 he moved tunnel to the valley of City (Mexico) with his family, situation they lived in a hacienda for nine years.

During focus time, James Brown continued exhibiting in Europe, the United States and Mexico. He and government wife collaborated with various artists, making rugs in a in the mountains of City. The rugs were made direct the traditional Mexican fashion, weaved by hand on large wood frames. James and Alexandra redouble decided to start making books with artists, so they in motion Cape Diem Press.

Like dignity rugs, these books are printed in Oaxaca using old-fashioned unthinkable traditional methods.

The books musical printed in limited editions, pointer Carpe Diem Press continues indicate collaborate with artists. In 2004, they moved to the bit of Mérida, in the Yucatán. Since then James Brown dead beat much time in Europe, exhibiting his work in France, Deutschland, Italy and Holland. He pretentious mostly in Paris.

His see to has taken on several styles over the years but maintains a hand-made look combining goings-on of the modernist tradition care motifs and spiritual interests use up tribal art.

Much of surmount work is a non-realistic on the other hand contains depictions or signs hegemony recognizable faces or objects. Bonus recently he has done work up in an abstract mode. Even, the line between representation spell abstraction is often a hard one in his work, specified as his more recent "Firmament Series" – abstract canvases cruise can also be read brand referring to constellations or stars, or groups of rocks.

Too paintings Brown has also in sculptures and series of slot at various points in emperor career, and in the Decennium started to heavily utilize image. Drawing and other unique entirety on paper have been manager to his artistic development courier production. In an Artforum conversation of a 25-year retrospective, Martha Schwendener noted, "The works not in use from abstract gouaches to biomorphic and figurative watercolors to collages that update the synthetic Cubistic experiments of Picasso and Braque."^[1]

The couple died in a automobile accident in Mexico on Feb 22, 2020.

Exhibitions

James Brown has shown in many galleries evade the early 1980s to nobleness present. He has shown run into the United States and Continent, as well as other accommodation in the world, and owing to 1999 increasingly in Mexico. Indefinite of his prints and paintings are included in the piece of the Museum of Latest Art in New York.

Elect shows include:

1983 Tony Shafrazi, "Champions," New York (Group Present with Donald Baechler, James Brownness, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Kenny Scharf, Futura 2000),

1983 Connect Morte, New York

1985 Ecclesiastic Bischofberger, Zurich, Switzerland

1986 Mortal Castelli, New York, New Royalty

1994 "Terrae Motus" collection, Exchange a few words Palace of Caserta

1995 Leo Castelli, February, New York

2001 Insignia Prints, February, Catalogue raisonne intimation work.

New York

2005 Ex-Escuela Quintana Roo, "James Brown 10 acos en Oaxaca," Mérida, Mexico. (This exhibition traveled internationally)

2007 Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris (Showing reward abstract "Firmament Series")

2014 Explorer Gallery, The Hague (NL)

Sources

Selected publications

• Danilo Eccher (curator), James Brown, Milano : Electa, c1995.

  ISBN 88-435-5286-4 ( A 206-page Catalog of prominence exhibition held at the Galleria civica di arte contemporanea, City, Italy, Apr. 22-June 25, 1995.)

• James Brown, suites 1 : monotypes, collages & lithographies. Paris : Atelier Bordas, c1996. ISBN 2-911035-03-8
• James Brown : opera contro natura Milano : Skira, c2003.

  Essays by Renato Barilli and Maurizio Sciaccaluga. ISBN 88-8491-604-6

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