James J Brown (1973   - )

Artist Autobiography

So there we have it, we find a young James Brown in college, wacked out on hallucinagens at odds with almost the entire faculty. Alot of the time, when asked to produce a diagram, my work started to blur and turn organic. Here is a prime example of this. These two drawings were done for my architecture design lab. I drew my building, then started seeing patterns in how a person might feel in different spaces in the building. Which led me to draw these two sketches as part of my project.


Interesting? yes. artistic, very. Architectural, umm not to most people. I didn't have a clue what I was doing. I did a few sketches similar to these, (although these were done later, in 1994.) So one day, about 6 months into school, I went out and bought some Acrylic paints. I have no idea why I did this I remember thinking for some reason it was funny at the time. Tee Hee I am going to paint. I always liked art, but couldn't have told you a Van Gogh from a Mondrain. My first paintings were primative to say the least I had no technical skill, no real artistic skill, and no real idea of why I was even doing it. The paintings I produced at this time were quite varied, and ranged from this bizzare stuff.

to some more refined stylistic work such as the Blueberry Picker which I'll discuss in the next chapter. Most of this work was spotty, sloppy, and although conceptually interesting, visually unbalanced. The exceptioin to this are what I have called, My Expressionist works.


On to the Expressionist works.