“…..as Klee’s paintings did, that the spiritual in art might happen at small scale, rather than in grand, orchestral gestures.”
 
by Martha Schwendener, The New York Times, January 22, 2020
 

ERIC BROWN

Born 1967, New York, New York
Lives and works in New York City

EDUCATION

Master of Divinity, 2020, Union Theological Seminary, New York
Bachelor of Arts, 1990, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022
Already and Not Yet, Jennifer Baahng Gallery, New York
The Particulars of Rapture, The Art Center at Duck Creek, East Hampton

2019
Longhand, Theodore: Art, New York

2017
Punctuate, Theodore: Art, New York2016
Suchness, New Work by Eric Brown, Crush Curatorial Chelsea, New York

2015
Lost and Found, James W. Palmer III Gallery, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York
Vice Versa, Ille Arts, Amagansett, New York

2013
Monday Paintings, Ille Arts, Amagansett, New York

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2021
Love Difference: Eric Brown, Janet Taylor Pickett, Zhang Hongtu, Baahng & Co., New York

2020
The Many Faces of Bill Arning, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York

2019
ICYMI, Theodore: Art, New York

2018
Chain Reaction: Artists Select Artists, The Painting Center, New York
Joseph Zito Plus Ten, Lennon Weinberg Gallery, New York
Materiality, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, Massachusetts

2017
American Abstract, Ille Arts, Amagansett, New York
The Edge, Philip Slein Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri

2016
Insomnia, Pelham Art Center, Pelham, New York
Construction Site, McKenzie Fine Art Inc., New York
Territory, Crush Curatorial, Amagansett, New York
Amagansett Art Across the Years, The Jackson Carriage House, Amagansett, New York
Deux Côtés / Two Sides, Part I, Theodore: Art, New York
Deux Côtés / Two Sides, Part II, Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris

2015
Vernacular: Eric Brown, Sharon Butler, Joyce Robins, Andrew Seto, Theodore: Art, New York
Remains To Be Seen, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, Massachusetts
Holiday Hijinks and Tote Modern, Theodore: Art, New York

2014
Holiday Salon, Ille Arts, Amagansett, New York
City as Subject, curated by Peter Xico Greenwald, The Westbeth Gallery, New York
Somatic, curated by George Negroponte, Ille Arts, Amagansett, New York
In the Trade, Washburn Gallery, New York

2013
Holiday Salon, Ille Arts, Amagansett, New York
Silhouette, curated by Bill Carroll, The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Panero, James. “Gallery Chronicle.” The New Criterion, February 2020
Schwendener, Martha. “What to See Right Now in New York Art Galleries.” The New York Times, January 22, 2020
French, Christopher. “E.L. Brown: Monday Paintings.” ARTnews, December 2013.
Krementz, Jill. “Jill Krementz Covers E.L. Brown’s ‘Monday Paintings.’” New York Social Diary, August 2013
Rogers, Pat. “Last Chance: Somatic Presents Industrial Abstraction at Ille Arts.” Hamptons Art Hub, August 15, 2014
Laster, Paul. “Weekend Edition: 11 Things to Do in New York’s Art World Before June 2.” The New York Observer, May 28, 2015
Goleas, Janet. “Painterly Conversation About Abstraction in ‘Vernacular.”’ Hamptons Art Hub, June 24, 2015.
Landes, Jennifer. “Eric Brown’s Colorful Abstraction on View at Ille Arts.” The East Hampton Star, July 16, 2015.
Goleas, Janet. “Eric Brown Paintings—Authentic Colliding of Geometry and Color.” Hamptons Art Hub, July 18, 2015.
Hodara, Susan. “While You Were Sleeping, They Made Art.” The New York Times, February 12, 2016.
Jessica Mackin. “Gallery Walk.” Independent Newspaper, June 15, 2016.
Landes, Jennifer. “Finding a Local Aesthetic in Abstraction.”  The East Hampton Star, June 16, 2016.
Butler, Sharon. “Of Note: Eric Brown, Suchness.” Two Coats of Paint, November 25, 2016.
James Panero, “Gallery Chronicle,” The New Criterion, October 2017.
David Gibson, “Eric Brown@Theodore Art/Bushwick,” The Gibson Report, December 10, 2017.
“On July 4: The Art of Decency,” www.twocoatsofpaint.com, 2018.

SELECTED AWARDS AND HONORS

2018
Cover art, Douglas Crase, Lines From London Terrace: Essays and Addresses, Pressed Wafer

2016
MacDowell Colony Fellowship.

2015
Visiting Scholar and Artist, The American Academy in Rome.
Cover art, Mannahatta, photographs by Roger Arvid Anderson, with poems by Walt Whitman, The Fisher Press, Santa Fe, New Mexico

2014
Cover art, Ken Babstock, On Malice, Coach House Books, Toronto

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