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Joan Brown

In 1997 a retrospective exhibition, Transformation: The Art of Joan Brown was jointly assembled by the Berkeley art Museum and the Oakland Museum, producing a comprehensive catalog of her work. Karen Tsujimoto, exhibition curator, wrote of Brown’s use of models: “Dressing them up – and sometimes down - in jauntily patterned clothes and often situating them in fanciful scenarios with animals like aardvarks and rats, brown created her own grown-up versions of paper dolls to suit her whimsical fantasies….”

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Past Exhibitions:
The Authentic Figure
May 9–June 22, 2019

Presence Known
May 18–July 2, 2016

Selected Press:
Huffington Post, May 2016
LA Times, March 2016
Hyperallergic, October 2015
Frieze, April 2015
Art Ltd., December 2011
New American Paintings, October 2013
"Working It Out: Joan Brown and Manuel Neri"- Whitney Chadwick, January 1995

Joan Brown - Adventures of a Woman #2, 1975

Oil and enamel on canvas, 78 1/2” x 79”

Joan Brown - Partially Painted Model, 1973

Ink, graphite, acrylic on paper, 36” x 24”

Joan Brown - Harmony, 1982

Enamel on canvas 96" x 60"

Joan Brown - Three Figures, 1974

Acrylic and ink on paper, 36” x 24”

Joan Brown, Pink Model in White Room, 1973

Joan Brown, Model with Table Bottom, 1973

Joan Brown - The Lesson: Hommage to Paul Brunton, 1981

Enamel on canvas 78" x 96", columns 72" x 18" each

Joan Brown, Mary Julia #23, 1976

Mixed media on paper

Joan Brown, Model with Foot on Table, 1973

Acrylic, graphite, ink on paper

Joan Brown, Figure with Pink Stockings, 1971

Mixed media

Joan Brown, Bather #7, 1982

Oil on canvas

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