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Modernist Abstract Woodblock Print by James Brown Renowned Artist
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Modernist Abstract Woodblock Print by James Brown Renowned Artist. Presented matted and framed. Signed lower right numbered 2 of 12. …
moreModernist Abstract Woodblock Print by James Brown Renowned Artist. Presented matted and framed. Signed lower right numbered 2 of 12.
James Brown (born 1951)
He is an American-born painter now active in Paris and Oaxaca (Mexico). He was most well known in the 1980s for his rough painterly semi-figurative paintings, bearing affinities to Jean-Michel Basquiat and East Village painting of the time, but with influences from primitive art and classical Western modernism.
Born in Los Angeles, California. He received at BFA from Immaculate Heart College, Hollywood. He then spent years in Paris, and attended the Ecole Superieure des Beaux Arts, Paris, France. He rebelled against the classical training there, which he considered irrelevant, but stayed as he wanted to stay in Paris.
Tours of Europe seeing Renaissance and especially Medieval painting of Italy influenced his work. During the 1980s his paintings, mixing the modernist tradition of painterly application and adherence to the picture surface with clear influences from tribal art.
In the early 1980s, he began exhibiting in New York, and in this decade this work became a hit in the galleries and art press, sharing a look with the Bad Painting and young neo-expressionism of the East Village painters of the time. On the 12th of September 1987, he married Alexandra Condon, who was studying History of Art at NYU at the time. They had know each other for little more than ten years.
Despite some time on the East and West coast of New York, he continued to live in Paris. With the fading of the East-Village art scene he had increasingly shown in European galleries, where his work was now seen in the context of a post-war European modernism in the tradition of Jean Dubuffet. James and Alexandra had their first child, Degenhart Maria Grey Brown, on the 24th of September 1989 in New York. In 1991 their second boy, Cosmas And Damian Maria Todosantos Brown, was born on the 6th of June in Paris. On the 16th of April 1993, their daughter was born, Dagmar Maria Jane Brown, in New York.
In 1995 he moved out to the valley of Oaxaca (Mexico) with his family, where they lived in a Hacienda for nine years. During this time James Brown continued exhibiting in Europe, the United States and in Mexico. He and his wife collaborated with various artists, making rugs in a village in the mountains of Oaxaca. The rugs were made in the traditional Mexican fashion, weaved by hand on large wooden frames.
James and Alexandra then decided to start making books with artists, so they started Cape Diem Press. Like the rugs, these books are printed in Oaxaca using old-fashioned and traditional methods. The books are printed in limited editions, and Carpe Diem Press continues to collaborate with artists. In 2004 they moved to the city of Mérida, in the Yucatán. Since then James Brown has been spending much time in Europe, exhibiting his work in France, Germany, Italy and Holland. He has been working mostly in Paris.
His work has taken on several styles over the years, but maintains a hand-made look combining concerns of the modernist tradition with motifs and spiritual interests from tribal art. Much of his work is a non-realistic but contains depictions or signs of recognizable faces or objects. More recently he has done more in an abstract mode. However, the line between representation and abstraction is often a difficult one in his work, such as his more recent Firmament Series -- abstract canvas' that can also be read as referring to constellations or stars, or groups of rocks.
Besides paintings Brown has also produced sculptures and series of prints at various points in his career, and in the 1990s started to heavily utilize collage. Drawing and other unique works on paper have been important to his artistic development and production. less
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- Dimensions
- 32ʺW × 1ʺD × 26ʺH
- Frame Type
- Framed
- Period
- 2000 - 2009
- Country of Origin
- United States
- Item Type
- Vintage, Antique or Pre-owned
- Materials
- Woodcut
- Condition
- Good Condition, Original Condition Unaltered, Some Imperfections
- Color
- Black
- Condition Notes
- Excellent vintage condition Excellent vintage condition less
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