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ROBERT DELFORD BROWN: Meat, Maps and Militant Metaphysics
March 28 - August 3, 2008
Galleria Cases
“ROBERT DELFORD BROWN: Meat, Maps and Militant Metaphysics” is the artist’s first museum exhibition following an active career of 50 years. A catalogue accompanies the exhibition, designed and authored by artist-writer Mark Bloch, (NYC) who served as the exhibition's guest curator.
See video of Robert Delford Brown
Brown has remained in the vanguard of art since his arrival in New York in 1959, participating in Performance Art, Fluxus, Pop Art, Happenings and Correspondence art movements while formulating his own, unique creative vision. His work of the early 1960's had a great impact at the time, forecasting contemporary artists such as Damien Hirst (carcasses in formaldahyde) and Han Hyo-Seok's disturbing photographs of faces and bodies of raw meat. Throughout his early career, Brown encountered, communicated and collaborated with notable avant garde artists, including Nam June Paik, Joseph Beuys, Wolf Vostell, Allan Kaprow, Ray Johnson, Joseph Cornell, Marcel Duchamp, Jim Dine, Claes Oldenburg and others.
In 1992, Allan Kaprow (who first conceived Happenings in 1957), noted: “…(Robert Delford Brown) threw a monkey wrench into the avant garde in those days. He was a visionary you couldn’t ignore or forget. Robert Delford Brown’s transcendent vision takes on a great significance”.
Brown was born in Colorado in 1930, later moving to California where he received his B.A. (1952) and M.A. (1958) from UCLA. In 1959 Brown moved to New York City where he lived and worked for the next 40 years. The artist currently lives and works in both New York City and Wilmington, North Carolina. A concurrent exhibition and video screenings is on view at Wabi Sabi Warehouse of Independent Art Company, an alternative space in Wilmington, NC., March 27-May 11, 2008.
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The exhibition catalogue was generously supported by Marc and Madlen Simon.
The exhibition is sponsored in part by The Talking Phone Book, a Publication of Hearst Holdings.
Top: St. Walter Hopps, 1998
Foam, plastic and acrylic
Bottom: Ideal Self Portrait of Robert Delford Brown
inscribed: "To Gretchen with Much Love Jan. 7, 1972 Robert Delford Brown," 1972
Ink on photograph
Courtesy of Hal Glicksman (Santa Monica, CA)
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Art & Social Conscience: HOLOCAUST
May 2 - October 19, 2008
Brown Wing
Art and Social Conscience: HOLOCAUST is an exhibition of contemporary art works responding to the theme of the Holocaust.
This exhibition, the first in the museum’s “Art and Social Conscience” series, features works by art faculty members from 11 of the 16 branches of the University of North Carolina system. Artists were asked to address the Holocaust and its larger context of mankind’s inhumanity to man, and many responded with new work created for the exhibition.
A related Holocaust literary commemoration featuring original works by faculty members of UNCW’s Creative Writing Department, will be published by the Cameron Art Museum in late summer 2008. Writers will read their works to mark the exhibition’s closing in October, 2008. For more info from UNCW: http://uncw.edu/arts/yomhashoah2008.html
This exhibition is part of a collaborative project initiated by the UNCW Office of Cultural Arts, with active participation bythe UNCW Department of Art & Art History. The UNCW initiative, a week-long series Days of Remembrance (April 28-May 3, 2008), represents the important contributions by artists to our understanding of the political and social issues of our times, and of our collective humanity.
The exhibition is generously supported by: Hannah Block, Frank and Wendy Block; and Mr. and Mrs. Walter Pancoe.
IMAGES FROM TOP AND LEFT TO RIGHT:
Don Furst (UNC Wilmington)
As The Stars III, 2008
Triptych, Mixed Media on Paper
Carlton Wilkinson (UNC Wilmington)
Through the Lenses: Auschwitz to Darfur I, 2008
Triptych, Digital Painting
Cathryn Griffin (Western Carolina University)
Held Above the Law, 2008
Inkjet Print
John Maggio (UNC Greensboro)
The Procession, 1993
Mixed Media Print
Soni Martin (Fayetteville State University)
Auschwitz, The Final Stop
Encaustic Print
Jonathan Chestnut (Fayetteville State University)
Through Dehumanization, All Evil Things Are Possible
Digital Print
Soni Martin (Fayetteville State University)
Auschwitz, The Final Stop
Encaustic Print
Jonathan Chestnut (Fayetteville State University)
Through Dehumanization, All Evil Things Are Possible
Digital Print
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