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CHRISTOPHER BROWN

   

EDUCATION        

 

M.F.A., 1976, University of California, Davis

B.A., 1972, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana

 

 

ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS

 

2006                John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2004                John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2001                John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1999               "Christopher Brown, Works on Paper,"Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, CA

1998                Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, West Virginia

                        Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY

1997                "Christopher Brown: Recent Paintings", Campbell-Thiebaud,

                        San Francisco, CA

                        "Christopher Brown:Works on Paper", Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN

1996                "Christopher Brown: Works on Paper", Fisher Gallery, USC, Los Angeles, CA

1995-96           "History and Memory”: Paintings by Christopher Brown an exhibition organized by the Modern Art Museum of Forth Worth, Texas (traveling to the San Jose Museum of Art, The Contemporary Museum in Honolulu, The Palm Springs Desert Museum,California, and the Norton Gallery, West Palm Beach, FL)

1995               “Christopher Brown: Recent Paintings”, Edward Thorp Gallery, NY

                        “Christopher Brown: Works on Paper”, Palo Alto Cultural Center

1993                Yellowstone Art Center, Billings, MT

                        Campbell/Thiebaud, San Francisco, CA

1992                Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY

                        Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL

1991                “Drawings and Prints”, Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle, Washington

1990                Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California

1988               "Christopher Brown: The Water Paintings 1976-87", Center for Research in Contemporary Art, University of Texas at Arlington, travelling to the de Saisset Museum, University of Santa Clara, California Richard H. Reynolds Gallery, University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA

1987                Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA

1986                Jan Turner Gallery, Los Angeles,CA

                        Zolla/Liebermann Gallery, Chicago,IL

                        Berkeley, California; Zolla/Liebermann Gallery, Chicago Illinois, University Art Museum, Santa Barbara, CA

                        Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa; Art Gallery, University of California, Irvine

1985-86          “The Painted Room”, Madison Art Center, Madison, Wisconsin

                         Travelled to:

                         Matrix Gallery, University Art Museum, Berkeley, California

                         Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

                        University Art Museum, Santa Barbara, California

                        Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa

                        Art Gallery, University of California, Irvine

1985                Dart Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

                        Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California

                        Matrix Gallery, University Art Museum Berkeley

1984                Art Gallery, Shasta College, Redding, California

                        Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California

1983                Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California

1982                American River College Redding, California

1980                Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California

                        Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, Virginia

1979                De Saisset Art Gallery, University of California, Santa Clara

1977                Loeb Rhodes Market Hours Gallery, San Francisco, California

                        Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, Virginia

                        Artist's Contemporary Gallery, Sacramento, California

1975                University of Illinois Student Union Gallery, Urbana, Illinois

           

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

 

2006-07           SEAWORTHY, Edward Thorp Gallery, NY   

2002                “Aviary”, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY

1999                "Large Paintings", Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1998                "Prints from Paulson Press", Traywick Gallery, Berkeley, CA

                        "Gallery Group Exhibition", Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY

1997                "Gallery Group Exhibition", Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY

                        "Six Bay Area Painters", University of California, San Diego, CA

                        "Past Time", The Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh, PA

1996                "48th Annual Purchase Exhibition", American Academy of Arts and Letters", New York, NY

                        "Fall Gallery Group", Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY

                         "The Birder's Log", I Space, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL

                        Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL

1995                 “Duck!”, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY

"View/Review: Celebrating...", Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, KS

                        "Narrative", James Graham & Sons, New York, NY

                        "Works on Paper", Jan Weiner Gallery, Kansas City, MO

                        “Christopher Brown-Works on Paper,” Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA

1994-95            “Gallery Group Exhibition”, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York

1994                “Waterworks”, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York

                        “Lyricism and Light”, Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA

                        “Christopher Brown: A Print Survey,” Graystone Gallery,

                         San Francisco, CA

                        “New Etchings, “ Crown Point Press, San Francisco, CA

1993                “5 Painters”, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY

                        “Gallery Group Exhibition”, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY

                       Group Show, Zolla Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL

"California North and South", Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO

                        “Bay Area Tradition: Robert Bechtle, Christopher Brown, Wayne Theibaud, Crown Point Press,                                     San Francisco, CA

                        “Eye on the Figure”, Lew Allen Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

1992                "Gallery Group Exhibition", Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY

                        "The Figure: Two Bay Area Artists", Johnson Community College,Overland Park, KS

1991                “A Palette of Vision”, Alza Corporation, Palo Alto, CA

                        "Art for your Collection", Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

1990                "In the Realm of the Plausible", curated by John Yau, Shea & Beker Gallery, New York, NY

1989-90            "10 + 10: Contemporary Soviet and American Painters", Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA

                         Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY

                         Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

                         Artist's Union Hall of the Tretyakov Embankment, Moscow, Tsentralnyl Zystavochni Zal, Leningrad, Russian                          Soviet Federative Socialist Republic

1989                Blum Helman, Los Angeles, California

                        Chicago International Arts Exposition, Chicago, Illinois

                        "Drew Beattie, Christopher Brown, Squeak Carnwath, Deborah Oropallo", Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA

1988                Awards Recipients Exhibition, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY                 

                        Chicago International Arts Exposition, Chicago, IL

1987                "Bay Area Artists Invitational", Janet Steinberg Gallery, San Francisco, CA

"The Importance of Drawing", Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco, CA

"Awards in the Visual Arts #6", Award Exhibition, travelled to: Grey Art Gallery, New York University; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio; Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA

1986                "New Painterly Figuration in the Bay Area", Art Gallery, Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA

                        San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA 

                        Chicago International Art Exposition, Chicago, IL

                        "New Works on Paper" Zolla Liebermann, Chicago, IL

1985                "Faculty Exhibition", University of California, Berkeley, CA

                        "New Romantic Landscape", Works Gallery, Long Beach, CA

1984                "New Work", Asher/Faure, Los Angeles, CA

                        "Bathers", Coe Kerr Gallery, New York, NY

                        "California: 20 Artists", Bluxome Gallery, San Francisco, CA

                        San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA

1983                “Bon a Tirer: Selected Prints from Bay Area Fine Art Presses, de Saisset Museum       

                        Kirk de Gooyer Gallery, Los Angeles,CA

                        Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA

                        Chicago International Art Exposition, Chicago, IL

1982                "Fresh Paint: Fifteen California Painters", San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco

"Drew Beattie/Christopher Brown/Jay DeFeo/Hassel Smith", Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA

                        “Figurative Drawings, William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1981                Shasta College, Redding, CA

1980               "Faculty Exhibition", University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

                        2nd Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA

1979               "New Images-Bay Area", The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA

1978                Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA

"Faculty Exhibition", American River College, Sacramento, CA

1977                "Introductions" Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA

                        "Roland Peterson-Christopher Brown", Artist's Contemporary Gallery,  Sacramento, CA

                        "Selected Graduates", University of California, Davis, CA

1976               "Table Show", Artist's Contemporary Gallery, Sacramento, CA

                        "Faculty Exhibition", American River College, Sacramento, CA

 

HONORS & AWARDS

 

1988                American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Award in Art

1987                National Endowment for the Arts Grant in Painting

1986                Award in the Visual Arts given by the Equitable and Rockefeller Foundations, with partial                                     support from the National Endowment for the Arts

1985                Eureka Fellowship, The Mortimer Fleishhacker Foundation, CA

1984                Regents’ Junior Faculty Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley

1981                National Endowment for the Arts Special Projects Award in Art Criticism

1979                National Endowment for the Arts Special Projects Award in Art

                        Criticism

1978-79           DAAD Grant (Deutsches Akademisches Austausch Dienst): guest      

                        artist affiliation with Academy of Art in Munich

1974-75           Mary C. McLellan Scholarship for independent study and travel in Europe

1973-76           Regents’ Fellowship, University of California, Davis

 

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

 

Baker, Kenneth, San Francisco Chronicle, Review, April 24, 2004. E10

Nahas, Dominique, "Christopher Brown at Edward Thorp Gallery", Review, June 1, 1998, pp. 11-12

Ollman, Leah, "Christopher Brown at San Jose Museum of Art and Palo Alto

Cultural Center, Art News, October 1995, p. 155

Smith, Roberta.  Review. The New York Times, June 2, 1995

Whiting, Sam.  “Brushing up on History”  San Francisco Chronicle, May 6, 1995. 

Davis, Randal, “Bay Area Figurative Painting”, Artweek

Baker, Kenneth, “Christopher Brown’s Paintings.”, San Francisco Chronicle, October 21, 1993

Tromble, Meredith, “Christopher Brown”, San Francisco Focus, September, 1993

Johnson, Ken, “Christopher Brown at Edward Thorp”, Art in America, November, 1992, p. 139

De Vuono, Frances, "Christopher Brown", Artnews, March, 1992, p.139

Tamblyn, Christine, "Christopher Brown", Artnews, November, 1991

Moser, Charlotte, "Ambivalence Toward Painting", Artweek, Sept. 27, 1990

Baker, Kenneth, "Painting that Brings History up to Date", San Francisco Chronicle, September 20, 1990

Bonetti, David, "The Elements of Fine Painting", San Francisco Examiner, September 8, 1990

Jan, Alfred, "Christopher Brown", Flash Art, January-February, 1988

Berkson, Bill, "Christopher Brown", Artforum, January, 1988

Baker, Kenneth, "Christopher Brown", San Francisco Chronicle", October 23,1987

Nadanet, Dan, "Direct Marks and Layers of Mystery', Artweek, May 20, 1987

Frank, Peter, Undercurrents: An Exhibition of West Coast Artists, (Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Portland, OR), 1987

Schwabsky, Barry, "The Persistence of American Art", Awards in the Visual Arts 6, (Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC

Baker, Kenneth, "A Bay Area Biennial", San Francisco Chronicle, November 9, 1986

Garver, Thomas H., The Painted Room: A Cycle of Landscape Paintings, (Madison Art Center, Madison, WI), 1985

Branson, Jamie, "Autobiographical Landscapes", Artweek, November 23, 1985

Baker, Kenneth, San Francisco Chronicle, November 22, 1985

Albright, Thomas, "Christopher Brown", Artnews, May, 1985

The Washington Times, May 30, 1984, (captioned reproduction)

San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle, October 23, 1983,(captioned reproduction)

Albright, Thomas, "Christopher Brown", Artnews, May, 1983

Albright, Thomas, "New Bay Area Painting and Sculpture", Artnews, April, 1983   

Albright, Thomas, "Fresh Paint", Artnews, September, 1982

Boettiger, Susan, "Fresh Paint, New Fingerprints", San Francisco Chronicle,June 27, 1982

Kelley, Jeff, "Christopher Brown", Arts, September, 1980

Fischer, Hal, "Christopher Brown",  Artforum, February, 1980

"Introductions", San Francisco Examiner, July 14, 1977

 

 

 

VARIOUS PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

 

M.H. De Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, California

Bank of San Francisco, San Francisco, California

Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, Hawaii

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California

University of California, Berkeley, California

Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska

Redding Museum, Redding, CaliforniaBank of America, San Francisco, CA

Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, New York

Prudential Insurance Company of America, Minnesota, California & N.J. General Mills, Minneapolis, Minnesota

New York Public Library, New York, New York

Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, New York

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas

Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, California

Kemper Museum, Kansas City, MO

           

 

       

           

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