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| Professional Experience:
Gary H. Brown has served as professor of painting
and drawing in the Art Department at UCSB for four 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 |
