"I believe drawing is fundamental to all the arts and keeping a sketchbook journal encourages practice," says Gary H. Brown, in reference to why he requires his students to record their experiences. "The journal process enables you to begin wherever you are and progressively draw your life into focus." Brown, who has dedicated the past 30 years to students at UCSB, collects journal entries from his students at the end of the quarter and creates a volume for each member of his drawing class. "A journal should unfold a perspective of moving through a time of transition, documenting visual ideas, and working out difficult decisions," says Brown, whose own work- inluenced by the deaths of talented former students- has centered on the issues of loss, life, love, and death. A painter, watercolorist, and draughtsman, Brown has had over 35 one-person exhibitions and 200 group invitation and juried exhibitions from Japan to Brazil. An avid sketchbook journalist since childhood, many of his works are based on ideas from travel journals.

Professional Experience: Gary H. Brown has served as professor of painting and drawing in the Art Studio Department at UCSB for three decades. Recognized as innovative and creative in the studio and in the classroom, Professor Brown has exhibited both nationally and internationally and traveled extensively. His inspiration has been Thomas Eakins, particularly by his role as an American artist/teacher, and by his studio/classwork with the representation of human identity.  With over thirty five one person exhibitions and two hundred group invitation and juried exhibitions, Brown's New York debut at O.K. Harris Works of Art, was in 1970 and in 1969 he participated in Street Works V sponsored by the Architectural League of New York.  He has had one-person exhibitions at Villa Lila, Nijmegen Netherlands(2000); Art Space, Japan; Source Gallery, San Francisco; The United Arts Club, Ireland; Comsky Gallery, Beverly Hills; and Fleischer-Anhalt Gallery, Los Angeles.  He has participated in major group exhibitions organized by the Tokyo Municipal Museum of Art in Japan; Zerox Corporation; The International Museum of Photography George Eastman House; Copper-Hewitt Museum New York; the Biblioleca Municipal, Avaraguava, Brazil; Williams College Museum of Art, Massachusetts and  Rutger State University, New Jersey.  Artist-in- Residence: United Arts Club, Dublin, Ireland 1997 and 1995; Art Space/ Artist Union, Nishinomiya, Japan 1985; Atelierhaus Worpswede, Germany 1980; New Harmony Historic Trust, Indiana 1976; Twinrocker Paper Company, Brookston, Indiana; Community of  Pajaro Dunes, California 1974; and the International Institute for Experimental Papermaking, Santa Cruz, 1974.  Description of Work: For the past year he has been working in digital media, a series of declarations, decorations, and provocations of the hallucinatory. Over the course of the last decade, much of Mr. Brown's work has centered on themes of mortality and regeneration; issues of life, love, loss and death influenced by the AIDS crisis.  Public Art Commissions : The 1997 AIDS Chronicles for Institute of Cultural Inquiry, Santa Monica 1998; "Fountain of Tears / Courtyard of Hope" installed at the entrance of Sarah House, a Santa Barbara AIDS Hospice, 1995. Research Expertise: Drawing; painting; papermaking; artist sketchbook journal. Expert Witness: Art and the Creative Process Selected Publications : Male Nude Now, New Visions for the 21st Century, by David Leddick, Universe/Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., 2001 .

The 1997 AIDS Chronicles, Institute of Cultural Inquiry, Santa Monica, 1998; Decade of Protest, Political Posters From the United States, Vietnam and Cuba 1965 – 1995, Smart Art Press / Santa Monica Track 16 Gallery and the Center for the Study of Political Graphics, 1995;  Santa Cruz Mountain Poems, Capra Press, 1972 and 1992 20th year reissue; Gary H Brown: A Survey Exhibition 1965 – 1985, Art Space/ Artists Union, Nishinomiya, Japan, 1985; Papermaking, Watson-Guptill, New York, 1978; and The Blue Winged Bee, Anvil Press Poetry, London, England, 1969.