GILLIAN BROWN

FM 1093, MUM, Fairfield, IA 52557

641 472-5069

gillianbrown@alumni.brown.edu


EDUCATION

1980

MFA, University of California, Los Angeles, photography

1977

MAE, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

1973

BA, Brown University, Providence, RI, art major

AWARDS AND HONORS

1999-2000

Bunting Fellowwhip, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, Harvard University

1993

Iowa State Arts Council Grant

1990

National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, photography ($20,000)

1990

Art Matters, Inc., New York, NY, Grant

1990,87

Maryland State Arts Council Work-In-Progress Grants

1985,84

Massachusetts Artist Finalist, The Artists Foundation and MassachusettsCouncil on the Arts and Humanities (small grants awarded)

1980

Purchase Award, "Eccentricities," California Institute of the Arts, Valencia

1979

Ford Foundation Traveling Scholarship

SELECTED ONE PERSON EXHIBITONS AND INSTALLATIONS

2005

"Parallel Play", Flatfile Galley, Chicago, IL

2003

"Each/Other: Vanishing Point," I Space Gallery, Chicago, IL

1997

"The Constructed Photograph,"Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA, site work

1996

Troyer, Fitzpatrick, Lassman Gallery, Washington, DC

1992

Jones, Troyer, Fitzpatrick Gallery, Washington, DC

1990

Notre Dame College, Baltimore, MD

1990

Washington Project for the Arts, two permanent site works

1987

"Constructions," Kathleen Ewing Gallery, Washington, DC
  Gatehouse Gallery, Mount Vernon College, Washington, DC

1986

Andover Gallery, Andover, MA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2003

"Turnaround," Flatfile Galleries Project Room, Chicago, IL
  "Each/Other," Flatfile Galleries Project Room, Chicago, IL

2001

"Sound and Fury", Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, IL

2000

"Rapture," Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA

1999

"A Range of Views," Bunting Gallery, Cambridge, MA

1998

"Each/Other," Des Moines Art Center, projected video installation, in "Iowa Artists"
 
"22 Dollhouses," Fine Arts Gallery, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
 
"Paraphotography," Maier Museum, Lynchburg, VA, curated by Charles Hagen

1997

"Meditations," Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, IA
 
"Thresholds: Limits of Perception," Eight Floor Gallery, NY, NY

1996

"Anxious Libraries," Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA

1995

"The Drawing Show," Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA

1995

"Iowa Artists," Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines

1994

"Boston Now," Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
 
"Off the Mall," Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
 
"A View from Baltimore to Washington," Fine Arts Gallery, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
 
"Doubletake," Hans and Walter Bechtler Gallery, Charlotte, NC

1992-94

"Proof: Los Angeles Art and the Photograph, 1960-1980,"
 
Laguna Museum of Art (traveling); DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA;
 
Friends of Photography, San Francisco; Des Moines Art Center

1991

"Bedrooms," Snug Harbor Cultural Center, New York, NY

1990

"Other Rooms," a Kunstraum project, Morgan Annex, Washington, DC
 
"Photographic Installations," Photofest, Houston Center for Photography
 
"Options '90," Washington Project for the Arts
 
"Constructed Spaces," Photographic Resource Center, Boston

1989

"Installation," Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA
 
"Extended Photographs," Montpelier Cultural Arts Center
 
"In Site," Gallery at the Plaza, Security Pacific Corporation, Los Angeles
 
"Maryland On View," Maryland Art Place, Baltimore

1988

"Representation, Perception, Conception,"Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies at Fullerton Museum
 
"Site Works by Gillian Brown, Kate Erickson and Mel Zeiger Dan Graham, Jeff Weiss,"
 
St. Mary's College, St. Mary's City, Maryland

1987

"Living Spaces," Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art
 
"Constructed Narratives," Kathleen Ewing Gallery, New York, NY (three person)
 
"Poetics of Space: Contemporary Photographic Works," Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe

1986

"Out of LA," Allied Arts Gallery, Allied Arts Council of Southern Nevada, Las Vegas
 
"The Altered Image," Arlington Art Center, Arlington, VA

1985

"Celebrating Two Decades in Photography," Frederick S. Wight Galleries, UCLA

1982-3

"New American Photographs," The Art Gallery, California State College, San Bernadino (traveling)

1982

"Inquiry," Frederick S. Wight Galleries, UCLA

1981

"Five American Photographers," Minneapolis College of Art and Design
 
"Photography, Five Directions," Rex Wignall Museum Gallery, Chaffey College, Alta Loma, CA
 
"Multicultural Focus--A Photography Exhibition for the Los Angeles Bicentennial,"
 
Municipal Art Gallery Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles
 
"Photofusion," Pratt Manhattan Center Gallery, New York, NY

1980

"Eccentricities," California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA

1979

"Contemporary Female Self-Portraits," Marcusie Pfeiffer Gallery, New York (traveling)
 
"Perception: Field of View," California State University at Los Angeles

1978

"Contemporary California Photography," Cameraworks Gallery, San Francisco

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND REVIEWS OF ARTIST'S WORK (*INDICATES REPRODUCTION OF WORK)

2004 Michael Klant: Grundkurs Kunst 4 - Aktion, Kinetik, Neue Medien, Braunschweig: Schroedel, 2004, pp. 152/153 (textbook).*
  Michael Klant: Grundkurs Kunst 4 - Kunst in Bewegung: Aktion, Kinetik, Neue Medien, Braunschweig: Schroedel, 2004 (DVD).*

2003

Camper, Fred: "Small Victories: Gillian Brown at I Space," Chicago Reader, February 28

2003

Wolfe-Krantz, Claire: Review, Art in America, October, p. 142.*

2003

Review, Mouthtomouth, Spring 2003.

1998

Hagan, Charles: Paraphotography, Maier Museum of Art, Lynchburg, VA, catalog *

 

Dorsey, John: "Creating big impact on a small scale," Baltimore Sun, February 18 *

 

Torres, Anna Maria & Pelli, Denis: Thresholds: Limits of Perception, NY Arts Magazine, catalog*

1997

Kemmerer, Allison: The Constructed Photograph, Addison Gallery of American Art, catalog *

1996

Protzman, Ferdinand: "It's the Thought that Counts," The Washington Post, March

1995

Renner, Eric: Pinhole Photography, Focal Press, Boston *

1994

Miller, Lenore D.: "Manipulated Environments: Photomontage into Sculpture," *

1993

Camerawork, Spring/Summer

 

Desmarais, Charles: Proof: Los Angeles Art and the Photograph 1960-1980,

 

Fellows ofContemporary Art, Los Angeles (book published in conjunction with show)*

1991

Louie, Elaine: "Artists Give Bedrooms a Nautical Motif," New York Times, January 31 *

1990

Dorsey, John: "Local retrospective explores photography's illusionistic nature,"*

 

Baltimore Sun, October 10

 

Welzenbach, Michael: "Non-Stock Options," The Washington Post, January 17 *

 

Dorsey, John: "'Options' offers thought-provoking installations,"* The Baltimore Sun, January 12

 

Wise, Kelly: "When photographers create their own fictional worlds,"*

 

The Boston Globe, Saturday, April 21

1989

Dorsey, John: "Photograph as social commentary," The Baltimore Sun, April 15

1988

Raczka, Robert: "At About Now," Re: Presentation Conception/Perception, LACPS, catalog *

 

Power, Mark: "Trends & Talent '88 - Photo, graphy," Museum and Arts Washington, Jan/Feb *

1987

Norklun, Kathi: "Living Spaces," Artweek, June 6 *

 

Gilroy, Roger: "Gillian Brown, Ron O'Donnell, Calum Colvin," New Art Examiner, April

 

Thorson, Alice: "Exposing the lie of the photograph - with wit," The Washington Times, February 5 *

 

Lewis, Jo Ann: "Ewing's 'Constructions'," The Washington Post, January 31 *

 

Laurent, Amy: "Capturing the Poetics of Space," Artweek, January 17, Vol. 18, no. 2 *

1986

Ludlow, Cynthia: "Explorations of Space," The Santa Fe Reporter, December 22 *

 

Petra, Tina: "Gillian Brown: Mixed Media installations and Silver Gelatin Prints,"

 

Art New England, April, Vol.7, no. 4

 

Wise, Kelly: "A multifaceted look at the art of collage," The Boston Globe, March 4

1985

Hugunin, James R.: "Uni/Diversity of California, Los Angeles,

 

" Celebrating Two Decades in Photography," The Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, catalog *

 

Jussim, Estelle and Elizabeth Lindquist-Cock, Landscape as Photograph, Yale University Press

1984

Sward, Marilyn and Catherine Reeve: Breaking the Boundaries:

 

Alternative Surfaces and Processes for Photographers, Prentice Hall, Boston *

1982

New American Photographs, California State College, San Bernadino, catalog *

 

Keating, Tim: "Performance as Photograph/Photograph as Performance," Inquiry,

 

The Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, catalog *

 

Portner, Dinah Berland: "Photography L.A., The Hot And The Cool," L.A. Weekly, February 5-11 *

1981

Multicultural Focus--A Photography Exhibition for the Los Angeles Bicentennial,

 

Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, catalog *

1980

Coleman, A.D.: "Hybridization: A Photographic Tradition," Photofusion,

 

Pratt Institute, New York, NY, catalog *

 

Hugunin, James: "Mocking Objects," Afterimage, October, Vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 12-15

 

"The Altered Subject," Quiver, no. 6, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia *

1979

Photography Year/1979 Edition, Time/Life Books Alexandria, VA *

 

Wilson, William: "Perception: Field of View," Los Angeles Times, May 30

1978

Artweek, December 8, Vol. 9, no. 42 *

 

Insights/Contemporary Female Self-Portraits, David Godine Press, Boston *

 

Contemporary California Photography, Cameraworks Press, San Francisco, p. 53, catalog *

COLLECTIONS

Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA

Art Museum, Princeton University

Bibliotheque National, P

Stephen Mindich, Boston Phoenix

California Institute of the Arts

Valencia; California Museum of Photograph, UC Riverside

Center George Pompideau, Paris

Erie Art Center, Erie, PA

Fleming Museum, University of Vermont

Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, UCLA

John Hechinger; S.A. Art Collection

Northern Illinois University

Seattle Art Museum


VISITING ARTIST RESIDENCIES

Illinois State University, March 1-31, 1996

Rochester Institute of Technology, January 1-31, 1989

St. Mary's College, St. Mary's, Maryland, February 14-28,1988

Minneapolis College of Art and Design, November 1-7, 1981


GUEST LECTURES

Minneapolis College of Art and Design

UCLA; Loyola Marymount College, Los Angeles

California State College, San Bernadino

Maryland Art Institute, Baltimore

MIU, Fairfield, Iowa

Rochester Institute of Technology

University of Chicago

Hampshire College, Amherst, MA

Pomona College, Clairmont, CA

Tisch School of Art, NYU

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

San Francisco Art Institute

 

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