About
Brice Brown was born in Louisville, KY, and currently lives in New York City and Milton, PA.
He received a BA from Dartmouth College and an MFA from Pratt Institute and has studied at the Chautauqua School of Art.
Brown works across mediums and genres and his artistic practice has been described as “somewhere between theory and practice. It materializes concepts, makes ideas and multiplies variations of meaning as it enfolds ‘theory’ with/in ‘practice’ in a vital, corporeal exchange with bodies in the world. The form of Brown’s work, then, is the engagement of the viewer with the work rather than the works themselves as disembodied objects. His work may point to a much more phenomenological understanding of the world in which the identity of objects is deeply intertwined with those who view them” (Alpesh Kantilal Patel, catalog essay for HOMUNCULUS).
He has exhibited nationally and internationally, and his work has been reviewed in the New York Times, Artforum, Art in America, Artnews, NPR, and The Village Voice, among others. He has held residencies at Yaddo, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, and the Vermont Studio Center, and has been a visiting artist/lecturer at Bucknell University, Dartmouth College, Carnegie Mellon University, Williams College and Drew University.
Brown’s work is held in public collections including the Speed Art Museum, the Baltimore Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Swope Art Museum, and Yale University.
Brown was a regular art critic for the New York Sun newspaper from 2006–2009, and for City Arts newspaper from 2009–2010. Brown has also contributed numerous essays for exhibition catalogues, including Chuck Webster, Louise Kruger, Barbara Takenaga, and Carl Plansky.
In 2006 Brown founded Sienese Shredder Editions, which published hardbound limited editions featuring artists and writers working together. Collaborations include John Yao with Chuck Webster and Miles Champion with Jane South.
Between 2006–2010 Brown and artist Trevor Winkfield curated and edited The Sienese Shredder, an annual arts journal that brought together a wide range of visual arts, poetry, and fiction. Five years later, running from 2015–2018, Brown and Winkfield regrouped to curate and edit another annual arts journal, Tether. Sienese Shredder Editions published both arts journals.
In 2017, Brown launched Milton Art Bank (MAB), a space for art located in a converted bank building in Milton, PA. Through its diverse programming, MAB aspires to promote an engagement with art in its many forms.
Resume
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2020
PROSCENIUM, Evergreen Museum and Library, The John Hopkins University; Baltimore, MD. With catalog.
2019
I looked down, I realized I had a body; Margaret Thatcher Projects; New York, NY.
2017
SOS; Pay Fauxn; Brooklyn, NY.
2016
Silhouette/Champion; Air Circulation in Paris; Paris, France. With catalog.
2015
Brice Brown @ Thatcher Projects; Margaret Thatcher Projects; New York, NY.
Buccaneer, Masquerade, Suspense; Abundance, Thorn, Champion; Air Circulation; Brooklyn, NY.
Glass and bridle, pomegranate and pears: On the viability and transience of a free and perfect union; The Commission from Virginia Center for the Creative Arts; Amherst, VA. Collaboration with composer Alan Shockley.
2014
I looked down, I realized I had a body; Projective City; Paris, France; Paris-Scope @ Mixed Greens; New York, NY.
2013
Rosebud; site-specifc mural installation during Texas Contemporary Art Fair; Houston, TX. In conjunction with Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY.
Rose House; site-specific mural installation; Milton, PA.
2012
HOMUNCULUS; Schroeder Romero; New York, NY. With catalog.
2011
Service Everyday (Dish Queens); The Box at The Standard Hotel, Hollywood during Pacific Standard Time and PULSE Contemporary Art Fair; Los Angeles, CA.
2010
Queening; Schroeder Romero; New York, NY.
2009
Service Every Day (Dish Queen); Jeff Bailey Gallery; New York, NY.
Regal Giant; installation at PULSE Miami; Miami, FL. In conjunction with Schroeder Romero, New York, NY.
2008
American Boy; Francis M. Naumann Fine Art; New York, NY.
2007
Selling the sound of my voice; vertexList; Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Collaboration with Alan Shockley.
2006
Compasses are banished; Francis M. Naumann Fine Art; New York, NY. With catalog.
2005
Walnuts; Della Brown Taylor Gallery, West Virginia State University; Institute, WV.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2020
Depicting Duchamp; Francis M. Naumann Fine Art; New York, NY. With catalog.
2017
Say a little prayer for u.s.; Planthouse; New York, NY.
Published by the Artist; International Print Center; New York, NY.
2016
Small Objects on Tables; Flotilla Flotilla; Pittsburgh, PA.
Victory Garden; Planthouse; New York, NY.
2015
Art Show Today; Planthouse gallery; New York, NY.
Regal Giant, Fig Leaf; Melvin Johnson Sculpture Garden, Chautauqua Institute; Chautauqua, NY.
2014
The Age of Small Things; DODGE gallery; New York, NY. Curated by Chuck Webster.
Maspeth's World of Wheels; Knockdown Center, Queens, NY.
The Amusing Style; Pavel Zoubok Gallery; New York, NY.
Published by the Artist; International Print Center; New York, NY.
Print Facets: Five Centuries of Printmakers; The Curator gallery, New York, NY. Curated by Michelman Modern.
2013
Marcel Duchamp, Nude Descending a Staircase: An Homage; Francis M. Naumann Fine Art; New York, NY. Shown in conjunction with the Armory Fair. With catalogue.
how you gonna get back to jersey?; Planthouse; New York, NY.
2012
Dartmouth Alumni in the Arts Biennial; The Black Family Visual Arts Center, Hanover, NH.
Summer Camp; Schroeder Romero; New York, NY.
Published by the Artist; International Print Center; New York, NY.
2009
Play it Forward; Schroeder Romero; New York City, NY.
It's a Schro Ro Summer!; Schroeder Romero; New York, NY.
Collage London/New York; Fred [London]; London, UK. In conjunction with Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, NY.
Inside Abstraction; Janet Kurnatowski gallery; Brooklyn, NY.
2008
Manufactured Unreality; Francis M. Naumann Fine Art, New York, NY.
2007
Demoiselles Revisited; Francis M. Naumann Fine Art, New York, NY. With catalogue.
Cut, Copy, Fold; Artist Image Resouce; Pittsburgh, PA. Curated by Kim Beck. With catalogue.
Sosabul International Exhibition; Pyeongtaek City, South Korea. With catalogue.
2006
Abstract Landscapes; Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor Cultural Center; Staten Island, NY. Curated by Trevor Winkfield.
2004
Brice Brown and Don Joint: A Marriage in Paint; Francis M. Naumann Fine Art; New York, NY. With catalogue.
f#@kperfection; vertexList; Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY
The Recurrent Haunting Ghost: Reflections of Marcel Duchamp in Modern and Contemporary Art; Francis M. Naumann Fine Art; New York, NY.
2003
The Big Abstract Show; The Painting Center, New York, NY. Curated by Denise Gale.
Art in a Changing World; Mahady Gallery, Marywood University; Scranton, PA. Curated by Lance Esplund.
Selected Press
Baker, RC “Brice Brown.” The Village Voice, March 2006. www.villagevoice.com.
Buhmann, Stephanie "The Age of Small Things." The Villager, February 6th, 2014.
Cohen, David "Brice Brown: Queening." NewYorkSun.com, November 2010.
Cohen, David "Shows to See." NewYorkSun.com, November 2010.
Derby, Elizabeth "Hindsight and song: The Commission centerpiece captures a transient moment." cville, Charlottesville, VA, May 13th, 2015.
Frank, Peter “Brice Brown and Don Joint: A Marriage in Paint.” www.artcircles.org May-June 2004, #0.
Glueck, Grace “Art in Review: Brice Brown: Compasses are Banished.” The New York Times, March 10, 2006.
Glueck, Grace “Art in Review: Brice Brown and Don Joint: A Marriage in Paint.” The New York Times, April 23, 2004.
Hausman, Sandy "VCCA Milti-media Art Show." WVTF Public Radio, Charlottesville, VA. May 4th, 2015.
Heinrich, Will "The Age of Small Things." Gallerist, Observer.com, February 5, 2014.
Johnson, Ken "Art in Review: The Age of Small Things." The New York Times, February 6, 2014.
La Prade, Erik "The Body and the Temple." Newswhistle.com, February 22, 2016.
Landi, Ann “Ladies of Considerable Repute.” ARTnews, December 2007, p. 40.
Leffingwell, Edward “Brice Brown and Don Joint at Francis M. Naumann Fine Art.” Art in America, January, 2005, p. 130.
Mason, Brooke "Houston Art Fair: Happy Trails in Houston." artnet.com, September, 2012.
Mendelsohn, Meredith "The Amusing Style at Pavel Zoubok." Editor's Pick, 1st Dibs.com, July 2014.
Rosenberg, Karen “Art in Review: Marcel Duchamp: Nude Descending a Staircase: An Homage.” The New York Times, March 14, 2013.
Patel, Alpesh Kantilal "Critic's Pick, Brice Brown: Queening." Artforum.com, October 2010.
Sargent, Sarah "One Night Stand: The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts' annual Commission." Virginia Living Magazine, April 2015.
Smith, Roberta "Art & Design: Clash of the Items, at a Gallery Near You." The New York Times, July 24th, 2014.
"Critics Pick." Time Out New York, June 17, 2012.
Standardculture.com interview, September 2011.
Paddle8.com interview, January 2013.
News of the Print World: New Editions, p. 38. Art in Print, Vol. 2, no. 6, March-April, 2013.
Awards
Yaddo, Milton and Sally Michael Avery Residence, 2008.
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, 2005, 2015.
Vermont Studio Center, 2001.
Public Collections
International Collage Center
Speed Art Museum
Baltimore Museum of Art
Yale University
Dartmouth College
Swope Art Museum
Visiting Artist
Dartmouth College
Bucknell University
Drew University
Carnegie Mellon University
Williams College
Education
MFA Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY.
BA Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH.
Chautauqua Institute of Art, Chautauqua, NY.