Lex Brown (artist) explained

Lex Brown (born 1989) is an American video and performance artist. Brown's performance work deals with self-reflection, politics, and design.[1] Brown has shown work at the New Museum, The Kitchen, The High Line, Socrates Sculpture Park and International Center for Photography in New York City, the Antenna Gallery in New Orleans, Louisiana, and VIA Music Festival in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, as part of their Women in Sound series.[2] [3] [4] [5]

Early life and education

Brown was born in Oakland, California. She grew up in Northern Virginia and attended Princeton University for her A.B. in visual art and archaeology where she graduated summa cum laude.[6] [7] Brown received her M.F.A. at the Yale University sculpture program.[8] Brown has participated in several artist residencies including Chautauqua Institute in Chautauqua, New York, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, in Skowhegan, Maine, and Yale-Norfolk School of Art in New Haven, Connecticut and the Paul Klee residency program in Switzerland for summer 2016.[9]

Work

Brown's work examines the personal and emotional ranges as a form of engaging with social and economic systems.[10] Brown has created experimental TV shows that has challenged televisions conventions by focusing on human to human interactions.[11] Her work raises questions by "skewering YouTube makeup tutorials, Big Data, pop-up shops, pop-up windows, and the entertainment-industrial complex."[12]

In 2015, Brown published a short novel entitled My Wet Hot Drone Summer, as part of BadLands Unlimited's "New Lovers," a series of erotic fiction.[13] Brown has also published their first monograph, Consciousness (2019), with GenderFail Press in 2019.[14] Brown is also included in Thomas Hirschhorn's Gramsci Project publication.[15]

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

Exhibitions and performances

Publications

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Rosenthal. Tracy Jeanne. Ha Ha! Business!. Art in America. 10 August 2016.
  2. Web site: http://www.bestofneworleans.com/gambit/making-do-group-exhibition-of-mixed-media-work-featuring-andrew-barco-hannah-barco-marissa-lee-benedict-lex-brown-amanda-cassingham-bar/Event?oid=2755789. bestofneworleans.com. 10 August 2016.
  3. Web site: リビングにスポーツで作る4畳の快適仕事環境Faxdmお風呂クリーニングホイール修理 . via.com. 10 August 2016.
  4. Web site: International Center of Photography. International Center for Photography. 10 August 2016.
  5. Web site: Lex Brown CURA.33. 2020-06-22. CURA.. en.
  6. Web site: Senior Theses. 10 August 2016. Princeton.edu.
  7. Web site: Brown. Lex. CV. 10 August 2016. lexbrown.com.
  8. Web site: Current Students. 10 August 2016. art.yale.edu.
  9. Web site: Lex Brown - Sommerakademie at Zentrum Paul Klee. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20160916194142/http://www.sommerakademie.zpk.org/en/sommerakademie-2016/fellows/lex-brown.html. 16 September 2016. 10 August 2016. Zentrum Paul Klee Bern.
  10. Web site: Lex Brown. 2020-06-22. Los Angeles Review of Books. 12 November 2017 .
  11. News: Steinhauer. Jillian. 2019-04-26. Spring Gallery Guide: Brooklyn. en-US. The New York Times. 2020-06-22. 0362-4331.
  12. Lex Brown. 2020-06-22. The New Yorker. en.
  13. Web site: a book review by Karl Wolff: My Wet Hot Drone Summer: New Lovers #4. 2020-06-22. www.nyjournalofbooks.com.
  14. Web site: Doran. Kerry. 2019-08-07. Identity Binge: How Lex Brown Makes Television. 2020-06-22. ARTnews.com. en-US.
  15. Web site: Brown. Lex. Growing Dialogue. 10 August 2016. abladeofgrass.com.
  16. Web site: Wendy Vogel on Lex Brown. 2020-06-22. www.artforum.com. April 2019 . en-US.
  17. Web site: Lex Brown "They Flew to Nova" and Katy Cowan "The Blue Sun Moans". 2020-06-22. www.nyartbeat.com.
  18. Web site: All in the Family: Aaron Fowler's Elaborate Assemblage Works are Highly Personal. 2020-06-22. en-US.
  19. Web site: "Magnetic Poetry Leaves the Fridge": The Art of Lex Brown. 2020-06-22. Mana Contemporary. en-US.

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