Mark Brown
3707 Hawk Ridge Road, Chapel Hill, NC 27516
markbrownpaintings.com
919.968.8495
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2014 Artspace, Gallery 1, Raleigh, NC. Invitational.
2010 ”Mark Brown”, Flanders Art Gallery, Raleigh,NC.
2007 “Mark Brown: Winterreise,” 5ive & 40rty Gallery, Winston-Salem,NC.
2007 Wichita State University, solo exhibition of prints; digital images from the Winterreise series projected on a 14’ screen during a performance of Schubert’s Die Winterreise.
2005-06 “Winterreise”, National Humanities Center,Research Triangle Park,NC.
2003 ”Mark Brown: New Paintings”, HagerSmith Design Gallery,Raleigh,NC.
1994 “Mark Brown”, Marita Gilliam Gallery,Raleigh,NC.
1993 “Die Grosse Nacht, Duke Institute of the Arts, Duke University,Durham,NC.
1984 Durham Arts Council, Durham,NC.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2013 “Independents”, Green Hill Center for North Carolina Art, Greensboro, NC. Invitational. Curated by Edie Carpenter.
2012 Craven Allen Gallery, Durham, NC. Three-person. Invitational.
2011 FRANK Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC. Grand Gestures. Invitational.
2008 Semans Gallery,Durham Arts Council,Durham,NC. Mark Brown [Winterreise series] and Mario Marzan. Invitational.
2007 Somerhill Gallery, “Recent paintings: Mark Brown [Winterreise series] and Margaret White”. Invitational.
2007 Somerhill Gallery, Shapes of White
2007 Somerhill Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC. things that are BLUE.
2006 North Carolina Artists Exhibition, [First Prize, Winterreise 18]. Juror- Alison DeLima Greene, Curator of Contemporary Art, Museum of Fine Arts,Houston,TX.
2006 “Order(ed)”, Gallery Siano,Philadelphia,PA. Curated by Julie Karabenick.
2001 “Other Worlds”, ThePaintingCenter,New York,NY.
1994 E. S. Vandam Gallery, New York, NY, three-person.
1994 “New Art ” Duke University Museum of Art,Durham,NC. Juror – Katy Kline, Director, BowdoinMuseumof Art.Brunswick,ME.
1993 Triennial North Carolina Artists Exhibition,North Carolina Museum of Art,Raleigh, NC. Juror – Michael Auping, Director,Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.
1993 “Art on a Small Scale,” Lee Hansley Gallery,Raleigh,NC.
1992 “Temporal Surfaces—Six Abstract Painters,” Davidson College Gallery of Art, Davidson,NC.
1984 Triennial North Carolina Artists Exhibition,North Carolina Museum of Art,Raleigh,NC. Juror – Howard Fox, Curator of Contemporary Art, LACMA.
1983 Southeast Center for Contemporary Art,Winston-Salem,NC.
SELECTED AWARDS/RESIDENCIES
2011 Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Emergency Grant
2007 EAG Project Grant,Durham,NCArts Council.
2006 Vermont Studio Center,Johnson,VT.Artist Grant.
2006 First Prize,North Carolina Artists Exhibition,Raleigh,NC.
1992 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Finalist- Painting.
1991 EAG Project Grant,Durham,NCArts Council.
1984 KentStateUniversitySummer Art Program,Kent,OH, Full Scholarship.
1983 Smith Fund Research Grant, Universityof North Carolinaat Chapel Hill.
1981 Fifth Annual Juried Exhibition, Bernhardt Industries,Lenoir,NC, Purchase Award.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS/REVIEWS
The Blotter, cover art and centerfold, October, 2007
Dougherty, Linda Johnson. “ART”, The Spectator, December 6, 1995
Dougherty, Linda Johnson, “Abstraction and Representation,” The Spectator, January 20, 1994
Fabbri, Anna. Art Matters, June, 2006
Fallon, Roberta. “Beauty, Order and Originality,” ORDER(ED) Exhibition Catalog, 2006
“Five [NC] Visual Artists You Should Know”, Raleigh News & Observer, June 10, 2006
Genetics in Medicine, cover art, Volume 9/ Number 12, December 2007
Greenburg, Blue. “Blue Is the Perfect Gambit,” Durham Herald-Sun, January 27, 2007
Greenburg, Blue. “Art,” Durham Herald-Sun, December 10, 1995.
Karabenick, Julie. Featured Interview with Mark Brown, geoform.net, February, 2006
Kline, Katy. “New Art,” Duke University Museum of Art, Exhibition Catalog, 1994
Natale, Michele, “Art Picks,” April 25, 2008
Natale, Michele. “Mark Brown’s Winterreise,” Raleigh News & Observer, January 8, 2006
Newhall, Edith. “Creative Styles of Their Own’”, Philadelphia Enquirer, May 26, 2006
Paschal, Huston. “North CarolinaArtists Exhibition 1993,” Exhibition Catalog, NCMuseumofArt
Patterson, Tom. “The Shades of Winter”, Winston-Salem Journal, March 16. 2007
Pinchbeck, Peter. “Temporal Surfaces,” Exhibition Catalog, Davidson College Gallery of Art, 1992
Poster art, Tenth Celebration of the Genome, Center for Disease Control,Atlanta,GA, 2008
Rossof, Libby. “ORDER(ed)”, artblog, May 17, 2006
Triangle Business Journal Book of Lists, Cover Art, 1993-94
Walentiny, Joseph. “Other Worlds,” Exhibition Statement, ThePaintingCenter, May 2001
Walentiny, Joseph. Artist Profile, abartonline.com, February, 2000
Wasserman, Janet. “Schubert’s Winterreise”, Exhibition Statement,NationalHumanitiesCenter, 2005
EDUCATION
MFA UniversityofNorth CarolinaatChapel Hill. Thesis Chair- Peter Plagens
BA UniversityofKentucky
The Thursday Group, critique group with George Bireline and others
Studio Assistant to HerbJackson, Chairman,ArtDepartment,DavidsonCollege
Studio Assistant to Gerald Ferstman, Art Professor,UniversityofKentucky
TEACHING/PROFESSIONAL
2010 Durham Arts Council EAG Awards Panel, Durham, NC
2007- Freelance art preparator, incl.NasherMuseum,DukeUniversity,Durham,NC.
2004 Digital imaging volunteer,AcklandArt Museum,Chapel Hill,NC.
1997 Visiting Lecturer,UniversityofNorth CarolinaatChapel Hill.
1995 Master of Fine Arts Candidates Critique Panel, UNC- Chapel Hill.
1982–83 Teaching Assistantships,UniversityofNorth CarolinaatChapel Hill
1981 Designed and taught course in two-dimensional abstraction.
Rowan Technical College/Waterworks Gallery,Salisbury,NC.
1979 Visiting Lecturer,KentuckyStateUniversity,Frankfort,KY.
PUBLIC/CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
Bernhardt Industries,Lenoir,NC Neiman Marcus permanent collection, commissions (2)
SEER Technologies,Cary,NC(3) NITROX,Durham,NC, commission
Glencore Ltd.,Stamford,CT Sidley,Austin,New York,NY(2)
Medco Research,Cary,NC(5) Wastek, Inc.,Liberty,NC
Selected Excerpts from Publications/Reviews
“Winterreise 17, Mark Brown’s stripe painting on birch panels, is a trip into the void. Unlike Barnett Newman’s zip paintings, which imply speed and a mystical state glimpsed through a sluice in a field of color, Winterreise 17- with its super-sized zip that is a vast black hole- implies stasis and existential questioning… This is a world in which heroic action is needed to confront the unknown.”
Roberta Fallon, ORDER(ed) exhibition catalog, May 2006.
“Mark Brown’s Winterreise is an incarnation of that word-music intersection, an intersection where the artist’s profound response to the music and poetry is transformed into a creative act of immense daring. To trust in the truth of Schubert’s Winterreise is to trust in the truth of art.’
Dr. Janet I. Wasserman, founder and Executive Director, Schubert Society of theUSA. Exhibition statement, 2005.
“Mark Brown’s paintings suggest an urban sensibility. His concept of space is statically monumental like urban architecture. Though the handling of space is highly structured, within his painting subtle swirls of texture and implied motion challenge the premise of the structure.”
“Other Worlds,” Exhibition Statement by Joseph Walentiny, Editor, abartonline, Nov. 20, 2000.
“Mark Brown steals the show with his subtly compelling abstract paintings…His labored, obsessively reworked canvases with thick impastos and dripping paint eloquently express the act of painting. This emphasis on seductive, tactile surfaces results in dense, concentrated and powerful works…beautifully painted surfaces…held together by tightly composed geometric forms.”
“Abstraction and Representation,” by Linda Dougherty, The Spectator, January 20, 1994.
“Serious and disciplined, Mark Brown’s sober, architectural blocks of astutely adjusted color pulsate…”
“New Art in the Triangle,” Exhibition catalog, by Katy Kline, Director, Bowdoin College Museum of Art,Brunswick,ME, 1994.
“Mark Brown, one of the five artists in this show who have been in previous triennials, has a sure sense of pictorial composition. The rectangularly shaped notes of his sound architecture advance and recede through the layers and layers of paint put on with palette knife and paint brush. These stately paintings—sober-minded but soulful—ultimately exercise a seductive attraction. The care with which they have been constructed and the assured handling of color reflect a pleasure in their making that communicates itself to the viewer. …to appreciate the structural coherence and depth of feeling in these paintings.”
“North Carolina Artists Exhibition 1993,” Exhibition catalog, by Huston Paschal, Associate Curator of Modern Art, NC Museum of Art, 1993.
“Mark Brown pursue(s) a course that rel(ies)…on direct perception…His presentDukeUniversityexhibition offers one aspect of the transformation that has occurred. Brown’s canvases are clearly distinguishable…the images that Brown comes up with rely on ‘chance’ formations rather than predetermined concepts: he doesn’t ‘blueprint’ a drawing and fill in ‘spaces’ with color…all the elements in his painting are developed together into one synchronous and diverse structure—multiple possibilities are tried, sorted out, covered over or found acceptable by the artist’s response to their perceptual effects. Perhaps more importantly, the ambiguous relations of form to color to space circulate in a continuous spectrum; their ‘parts’ seeming to join and separate from one another in a kind of rest-in-motion…”
“Die Grosse Nacht,” Exhibition statement, by Edwin Ruda, 1993.
