Lex Brown (artist)

Lex Brown is a contemporary video and performance artist born in 1989 in Oakland, California. Brown is best known for her performance work which 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, New York, 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 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

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][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]

Solo exhibitions

2020 - They Flew to Nova, Kate Werble Gallery, New York, NY[16]

2019 - Animal Static, The Kitchen, New York, NY[17][12][5]

2019 - The Inside Room, Recess Art, New York, NY[14][11][5]

Selected exhibitions and performances

2018 - C.E. (Performance) with Aaron Fowler, New Museum, New York, NY[18]

2017 - Lex Brown Town, New Museum, New York, NY[19]

Publications

Wet Hot Drove Summer, Published by Badlands Unlimited (September 28, 2015)[13][10]

Consciousness, Published by GenderFail, (2019)[14]

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References
  1. Rosenthal, Tracy Jeanne. "Ha Ha! Business!". Art in America. Retrieved 10 August 2016.
  2. 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. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. via.com http://via-2015.com/pittsburgh/a/lex-brown/. Retrieved 10 August 2016. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  4. "International Center of Photography". International Center for Photography. Retrieved 10 August 2016.
  5. "Lex Brown | CURA.33". CURA. Retrieved 2020-06-22.
  6. "Senior Theses". Princeton.edu. Retrieved 10 August 2016.
  7. Brown, Lex. "CV". lexbrown.com. Retrieved 10 August 2016.
  8. "Current Students". art.yale.edu. Retrieved 10 August 2016.
  9. "Archived copy". Zentrum Paul Klee Bern. Archived from the original on 16 September 2016. Retrieved 10 August 2016.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  10. "Lex Brown". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 2020-06-22.
  11. Steinhauer, Jillian (2019-04-26). "Spring Gallery Guide: Brooklyn". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-06-22.
  12. "Lex Brown". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2020-06-22.
  13. "a book review by Karl Wolff: My Wet Hot Drone Summer: New Lovers #4". www.nyjournalofbooks.com. Retrieved 2020-06-22.
  14. Doran, Kerry; Doran, Kerry (2019-08-07). "Identity Binge: How Lex Brown Makes Television". ARTnews.com. Retrieved 2020-06-22.
  15. Brown, Lex. "Growing Dialogue". abladeofgrass.com. Retrieved 10 August 2016.
  16. "Lex Brown "They Flew to Nova" and Katy Cowan "The Blue Sun Moans"". www.nyartbeat.com. Retrieved 2020-06-22.
  17. "Wendy Vogel on Lex Brown". www.artforum.com. Retrieved 2020-06-22.
  18. ""Magnetic Poetry Leaves the Fridge": The Art of Lex Brown". Mana Contemporary. Retrieved 2020-06-22.
  19. "All in the Family: Aaron Fowler's Elaborate Assemblage Works are Highly Personal". Retrieved 2020-06-22.
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