James Brown (artist)
James Brown ( b. 1951 in Los Angeles ) is an American painter, sculptor and graphic artist.
Life
Brown visited upon completion of the colleges the École nationale supérieure des Beaux -Arts in Paris. The local teaching he refused and enthusiastic rather for the works of older art, such as the Gothic and Renaissance, who he met while traveling through Italy and other European countries. Together with the artists Jean -Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring and Donald Baechler he introduced first time in 1983 in the Tony Shafrazi Gallery in New York working out. It was followed by numerous exhibitions at the Leo Castelli Gallery, Gagosian Gallery, the Pace Gallery and in the Gallery of Lucio Amelio in Naples.
After Brown spent several years both in New York, and Paris alternately, in 1995 he moved with his family to Mexico, where he began to realize joint projects with his wife. Initially designed and placed them Carpets ago, then in traditional Mexican production artist books.
Work
The picturesque Browns combines gestural abstraction with figurative symbols, which he combines influences regional folk and tribal art with elements of classical modernism. In his drawings and gouaches Brown developed biomorphic forms, it converts structures which he has discovered in nature. From 1990, the collage is another important means of expression. 1995 Galleria Civica di dedicated the Arte Contemporanea in Trento Brown a comprehensive retrospective.