• Store IconStore
  • Register or Login
  • Join our mailing list
  • Artists+

  • Exhibits+Events

  • Journal

  • Gallery

  • Projects

  • History

  • Support

  • Artists+

  • Exhibits+Events

  • Journal

  • Gallery

  • Projects

  • History

  • Support

  • Store
  • Register or Login

Past Event

Roger Brown exhibition

Venus over Manhattan

Date:
November 12, 2019–January 11, 2020
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Email
Price: Free
Type of event:
Member ExArtist Member Exhibition
Location:
Venus Over Manhattan
980 Madison Ave
New York, NY , 10075
United States
Loading map...
Installation view of Roger Brown, Venus Over Manhattan, New York

Installation view of Roger Brown, Venus Over Manhattan, New York

Comprising a large group of paintings that spans the breadth of Roger Brown's career, the presentation surveys the development of Brown’s production. In conjunction with the exhibition, the gallery will publish a catalogue featuring two new texts on the artist by Lisa Stone, Curator of the Roger Brown Study Collection, and Dan Nadel, Curator at Large, Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, UC Davis, as well as pages from Brown’s sketchbooks that relate to the works on view. This exhibition was organized in collaboration with the Roger Brown Study Collection at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Kavi Gupta.

Visual AIDS Artist Member Roger Brown began exhibiting his work in the late 1960s, alongside a group of artists often referred to as the Chicago Imagists. Celebrated for their use of imagery, figuration, narrative, and patterning, these artists pulled from idiosyncratic sources to produce deeply personal and visually diverse work, shirking the cool, stylistic orthodoxies that dominated on the coasts. Brown moved in circles around the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, which nurtured the unconventional interests of Brown and his peers. Brown was deeply associated with Chicago during his lifetime: he graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1970; he kept a series of studios, filled with carefully selected art and objects, from both the vernacular and mainstream realms, that culminated in his building in the Lincoln Park neighborhood; and his instantly legible paintings and objects, replete with silhouetted figures, patterned landscapes, and scalloped skies, rendered in dizzying isometric perspective, helped foster a community of artists that announced Chicago as a viable site of artistic production.

Related Downloads

  • Roger Brown Press Release 2019 2020

    Download

Related Artists

86Dc1226 7C78 4380 8521 4A9379Fe12035Bc8E72C09Fc58 50280789

Roger Brown

logo mobile

VISUAL AIDS
526 W 26th St #309
New York, NY 10001
P: 212-627-9855
E: info@visualAIDS.org

  • Support Us
  • About Us
  • Terms and Conditions
  • Site by Familiar

Donate to Support
Visual AIDS Today!