Long Island, NY
After working in Paris during the 1970’s Brown became associated with a group of artists in New York who collectively formed the radical group know as "Frontier Art" at the beginning of the eighties, and included Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring.
The group reflected the need for a new aesthetic dimension that would be more metropolitan, that would not so much renew the traditional language of painting as define a new expressive reality. Brown was fascinated by ethnography and the use of signs and symbols in primitive cultures, and cross referenced this with contemporary urban grafitti. His work is now represented in museums worldwide.
JAMES BROWN (b.1951)
“WOMAN IN HAT”
oil and enamel paint on canvas, 142 x 127cm (56 x 50in)
signed, titled and dated on reverse, 1984-1985
EXHIBITED:
Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, Salzburg
Galerie Bischofberger, Zurich
JAMES BROWN (b.1951)
“THE CHRIST IV”
oil on copper, 100 x 90cm
signed, titled and dated on reverse, Paris 1987
EXHIBITED:
James Brown, Galerie Maeght Lelong, Paris, 1987
LITERATURE:
James Brown, Danilo Eccha, 1995, (Illus. p86)
This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity issued by Jacques Dupin.
JAMES BROWN (b.1951)
“UNTITLED VII”
oil and pencil on linen, 122 x 127cm (48 x 50in)
signed, and inscribed on reverse “VIII VI New York”,
painted in 1986