artist lecture: john brown

Art and Art History Presents

John Brown

Tuesday 11 February 2010
12:30 – 1:30 p.m.


Sheridan, B124
1430 Trafalgar Road, Oakville, ON L6H 2L1

John Brown has been working and living in Toronto since the mid 1970's. He was educated at the Ontario College of Art and the University of Guelph. He has been exhibiting his work nationally and internationally since 1982 and is currently represented by the Olga Korper Gallery in Toronto and by Wilde Gallery in Berlin. His work is represented in public and private collections in Canada the US and Europe.

Brown: For the last few years I have been making large paintings in oil on wood whose main subject would appear to be indeterminacy. I am interested in making images that are in process of becoming or unbecoming. The paintings are not abstract but iconic. The images I start with are usually drawn from newspaper photographs, photos taken off the Internet or images from books in my studio. Sometimes the images are manipulated on Photoshop and sometimes they painted over with oil or gouache and sometimes they are left as they are and stapled on to the painting surface. The finished paintings often bear no relation to the image I started with.

Image: John Brown, May 26 2021 (2010), Oil on panel, 7 x 6 feet