Faculty
| Gillian Brown | |
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| Adjunct Assistant Professor of Art | |
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| Work Phone: | (641) 472-7000 ext. 5035 |
| Home Phone: | (641) 472-5069 |
Education
MFA, University of California, Los Angeles, photography
MAE, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
BA, Brown University, Providence, RI, art major
Awards and Honors
1999-2000 Bunting Fellow in Visual Arts, Radcliffe College, Harvard University
1993 Iowa State Arts Council Grant
1992 Maryland State Arts Council Grant
1990 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, photography ($20,000)
1990 Art Matters, Inc., New York, NY, Grant
1990, 1987 Maryland State Arts Council Work-In-Progress Grants
1985, 1984 Massachusetts Artist Finalist, The Artists Foundation
and Massachusetts
Council on the Arts and Humanities (small grants awarded)
1979 Ford Foundation Traveling Scholarship
Selected One Person Exhibitions and Installations
2000 Rothschild Gallery, Bunting Institute, Harvard University
1997 "The Constructed Photograph," Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA, site work
1996,1992 Troyer, Fitzpatrick, Lassman Gallery, Washington, DC
1990 Notre Dame College, Baltimore, MD
1990 Washington Project for the Arts, two permanent site works
1987,1988 "Constructions," Kathleen Ewing Gallery, Washington, DC and New York, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions
2001 "Sound and Fury," Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago
2000 "Rapture," Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, two projected video installations
1998 "each/other," Des Moines Art Center, projected
video installation
"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
"A Room of Your Own," 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
1992-1994 "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
"Constructed Spaces," Photographic Resource Center, Boston
1989 "Installation," Nexus Contemporary Art Center,
Atlanta, GA
"In Site," Gallery at the Plaza, Security Pacific Corporation,
Los Angeles
1988 "Representation, Perception, Conception,"
Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies
at Fullerton Museum
"Site Works by Gillian Brown, Kate Erickson and Mel Zeigler, Dan Graham,
Jeff Weiss," St. Mary’s College, St. Mary’s City, Maryland
1987 "Living Spaces," Los Angeles Institute of
Contemporary Art
"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
l985 "Celebrating Two Decades in Photography," Frederick S. Wight Galleries, UCLA
1982-1983 "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
"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
1979 "Contemporary Female Self-Portraits," Marcusie Pfeiffer Gallery, New York (traveling)
1978 "Contemporary California Photography," Cameraworks Gallery, San Francisco
Selected Publications and Reviews of Artist’s Work
(* indicates reproduction of work)2000 McQuaid, Cate: "Artists evoke yearning, seduction,
and romance, " The Boston Globe, June 8
Asher, Steve (Filmmaker): "Greater Boston Arts -- Rapture at Mass Art"
(interview on TV show)
WGBH, Jan-Feb.
Temin, Christine: "Assorted Artists Capture ‘Rapture’,"
The Boston Globe, February 2
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 2
1995 *Renner, Eric: Pinhole Photography, Focal Press, Boston
1994 *Miller, Lenore D.: "Manipulated Environments:
Photomontage into Sculpture,"
Camerawork, Spring/Summer
1993 *Desmarais, Charles: Proof: Los Angeles Art and the
Photograph 1960-1980, Fellows of
Contemporary 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 - Photography," Museum
and Arts Washington, January/February 1988
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, Paris
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