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Feb 1, 2019 · ALEX BROWN (1966–2019) The painter and musician Alex Brown, who exhibited at Feature Inc. in New York from 1998 until its closing in 2014 and played guitar in the seminal hardcore punk band Gorilla Biscuits, has died at age fifty-two following an aneurysm. Brown’s painting often worked from found photographs from travel brochures and ...
Friendly Fire: My Adventures, by Alex Brown. Hamburger in Paradise: One Man’s Struggles, by Alex Brown. Can a Fella Get a Table Dance: The Diaries of Alex Brown Married but Looking: A Life, by Alex Brown. And so forth. The list goes on, and eventually found its way into my 2013 novel, The Flamethrowers.
Brown was just fifty-two when he died of an aneurysm. He’d had a good run during the 1980s and ’90s in New York and is fondly remembered by his many friends as smart, unassuming, and funny. He played guitar in respected hardcore bands Gorilla Biscuits, Project X, and Side by Side, and graduated from the Parsons School of Design before returning to the Midwest in 1996, feeling “eaten up ...
May 19, 2021 · Photo: Alex Brown Foundation. The Alex Brown Foundation in Des Moines has announced its first artist residencies, which are to begin this summer. The foundation has named painter and printmaker Vamba Bility as its inaugural resident artist, to be followed by multimedia artist Justin Sterling, sculptor David Craig, painter Emmy Thelander ...
Sep 25, 2023 · The Des Moines-based Alex Brown Foundation has announced the five participants of its 2024 residency program. Fatma Belkıs, Woohee Cho, Mark Joshua Epstein, Anjan Modak, and Rodriguez Remor, a collective comprising Denis Rodriguez and Leonardo Remor, will each occupy Brown’s former studio in the nonprofit Mainframe Studios, a refurbished 1970s telecom building near downtown Des Moines. The ...
Oct 17, 2022 · The Alex Brown Foundation in Des Moines, Iowa, today announced the six artists participating in its 2023 residency program. David Dixon, Ben DuVall, Shir Ende, Fanxi Sun, Jessica Walker, and Leonard Yang, will each occupy Brown’s former studio in the nonprofit Mainframe Studios, a refurbished 1970s telecom building near downtown Des Moines. The residencies are flexible varying in length from ...
Alex Katz, Ulla, 2010, oil on linen, 80 x 84″. In considering Alex Katz’s exhibition at Gavin Brown’s enterprise, one might almost be forgiven for ignoring the paintings actually on view; it’s hard to concentrate on the work, strong as it is, amid the chatter about its new location and the details of the artist’s decampment from Pace.
ALEX BROWN. Rachel Kushner on Alex Brown. By Rachel Kushner. Print April 2019. Features. Rachel Kushner. By Rachel Kushner. Print December 2017. Brussels “Stan Dou ...
In one image, Brown wears a blue gown decorated with an anchor. In another, her blue dress is patterned with steamships, like an endlessly repeating flashback. The profound impact of Brown’s confrontation with mortality is felt throughout the galleries that follow the one showcasing “Alcatraz Swim.” The impermanence of life looms large ...
A TREE GROWS IN SOHO: ALEX KATZ’S. BLUE. By Tom Breidenbach. Alex Katz likes to paint, and his ambition as an artist seems to consist largely in not letting anything get in the way of his actually doing so, steadily and surely. As Katz expresses it, being an artist is as much an act of will as it is the product of inspiration or abandon.
