Deborah Brown

BIOGRAPHY

Deborah Brown's work draws on the history of portraiture in Western Art. She aims to represent the sitter's consciousness and the phenomenological act of seeing that unfolds when the perceiver meets the gaze of the subject portrayed. She employs different perspectives to position the viewer in various roles: the observes, the intruder, the friend and the narrator.

Her work has been exhibited in numerous solo exhibitions, including Things As They Are, Anna Zorina, New York (2021); Parts Unknown, Gavlak, Florida (2020); dirt's the only animal who will sleep with you, The Lodge, California (2019); A Land More Kind Than Home, Union Hall, Colorado (2019); Deborah Brown: This dream and other animals, Burning in Water, New York (2019); Chimeras, Spoonbill Studio, New York (2018); Runaways, Geary Contemporary, New York (2017) and Parlor Games, Art3, New York (2016). Her work has also been exhibited in several group exhibitions, such as Nasty Women, Gavlak, California (2020); Suddenly Last Summer, Auxier Kline, New York (2020); Sit Still: Self-Portraits in the Age of Distraction, Anna Zorina Gallery, New York (2020); Certain Women, Nancy Littlejohn Fine Art, Texas (2019); In the Summertime, Danese/Corey, New York (2019); About Face, The Painting Center, New York (2019) and Summer of Love, Freight + Volume, New York (2018) among others. 

She received a degree in Bachelor of Arts from Yale University, Connecticut in 1976 and a degree in Master of Fine Arts from Indiana University, Bloomington (1978). Born in 1955 in California she currently lives and works in New York.


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