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
editBrown 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.[7][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][7]
Work
editBrown'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][10] 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] In 2024 Brown was awarded the Rome Prize in Visual Arts at the American Academy in Rome.[16]
Exhibitions
editSolo exhibitions
edit- The Inside Room, Recess Art, New York, 2019[14][11][5]
- Animal Static, The Kitchen, New York, 2019[17][12][5]
- They Flew to Nova, Kate Werble Gallery, New York, 2020[18]
Exhibitions and performances
edit- Lex Brown Town, New Museum, New York, 2017[19]
- C.E. (Performance) with Aaron Fowler, New Museum, New York, 2018[20]
Publications
edit- Wet Hot Drove Summer. Badlands Unlimited, 2015.[13][10]
- Consciousness. GenderFail, 2019.[14]
References
edit- ^ Rosenthal, Tracy Jeanne. "Ha Ha! Business!". Art in America. Retrieved 10 August 2016.
- ^ bestofneworleans.com 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. Retrieved 10 August 2016.
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- ^ "International Center of Photography". International Center for Photography. Retrieved 10 August 2016.
- ^ a b c "Lex Brown | CURA.33". CURA. Retrieved 2020-06-22.
- ^ "Senior Theses". Princeton.edu. Retrieved 10 August 2016.
- ^ a b c Brown, Lex. "CV". lexbrown.com. Retrieved 10 August 2016.
- ^ "Current Students". art.yale.edu. Retrieved 10 August 2016.
- ^ "Lex Brown - Sommerakademie at Zentrum Paul Klee". Zentrum Paul Klee Bern. Archived from the original on 16 September 2016. Retrieved 10 August 2016.
- ^ a b c "Lex Brown". Los Angeles Review of Books. 12 November 2017. Retrieved 2020-06-22.
- ^ a b Steinhauer, Jillian (2019-04-26). "Spring Gallery Guide: Brooklyn". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-06-22.
- ^ a b "Lex Brown". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2020-06-22.
- ^ a b "a book review by Karl Wolff: My Wet Hot Drone Summer: New Lovers #4". www.nyjournalofbooks.com. Retrieved 2020-06-22.
- ^ a b c Doran, Kerry (2019-08-07). "Identity Binge: How Lex Brown Makes Television". ARTnews.com. Retrieved 2020-06-22.
- ^ Brown, Lex. "Growing Dialogue". abladeofgrass.com. Retrieved 10 August 2016.
- ^ Nietzel, Michael T. "American Academy in Rome Announces Winners of the 2024-25 Rome Prize". forbes.com. Forbes.
- ^ "Wendy Vogel on Lex Brown". www.artforum.com. April 2019. Retrieved 2020-06-22.
- ^ "Lex Brown "They Flew to Nova" and Katy Cowan "The Blue Sun Moans"". www.nyartbeat.com. Retrieved 2020-06-22.
- ^ "All in the Family: Aaron Fowler's Elaborate Assemblage Works are Highly Personal". Retrieved 2020-06-22.
- ^ ""Magnetic Poetry Leaves the Fridge": The Art of Lex Brown". Mana Contemporary. Retrieved 2020-06-22.