James Justin Brown - b. 1973

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Architect, AIA, Licensed in Washington State

Freelance Designer / Artist / Writer - current

EDUCATION:
Bachelor of Architecture, Virginia Tech, May 1996
Diploma, American High School of Madrid, Spain 1991

ART EDUCATION:
5 years – Design Lab, Virginia Tech Architecture

1 year – Pottery and Ceramics

1 Year – Water Color

UPCOMMING - CURRENT EXHIBITIONS:
The Seattle Group, Twilight Artist Collective, Seattle WA - September, 2009
Gallery IMA, Seattle WA - January, 2010

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
Collective Visions Gallery - 'Living With Doom', Bremerton WA - September 2008

Gallery IMA 2 person show, Seattle, WA, January 2007
Artifakt, Seattle, WA, Nov 3rd. 2006
Coos Art Museum, "Expressions West" Coos Bay, OR, May 26-July 13 2006
Columbia City Gallery, "Plugged In and Caffinated" Seattle, WA, May 10-July 9 2006
Expressions West - Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay, OR, July 12, 2005, juror, Norm Lundin
Allied Arts, juried show, Richland WA - May 8-June 3, 2005
Calix Fine Art, 3 person show, Seattle - September 2004
Works on Paper - Calix Fine Art, Group Exhibition - Seattle - July 2004
Delight Hamilton Gallery – Group Show, (8) works - April 2004
Little Things Count – Center On Contemporary Arts, Seattle WA - Nov-Dec 2003 - 6 works
Northwinds Art Center, Port Townsend WA - October 2003 - juror - Greg Bell, Curator of Contemporary Art at the Tacoma Art Museum
Secluded Alley Works, "Not of This Earth, Seattle WA, September 2003
Art Association of Harrisburg, Harrisburg PA, May-June 2003 – juror - Yvette Lee, Asst. Currator at the Whitney Museum of Art
Center on Contemporary Arts, Seattle WA, ongoing, 2003 – 3 Works
Little Things Count - Center on Contemporary Arts, Seattle WA, December 2002 – 4 Works

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
Gallery IMA - 'Perceptions II' – Solo Exhibition - January 2009

Gallery IMA – 'Perceptions I' - Solo Exhibition - October 2008

Delight Hamilton Gallery – Solo Exhibition - March 2004
Samis Gallery Foundation, October 14 - November 14, 2002 – Exhibition

Wattenbarger Architects, February 2002 – Exhibition and presentation of 18 abstract works in oil & acrylic
Ureibo Gallery, Seattle WA, December 2000 – Exhibition of 26 works, primarily oils and acrylics
XYZ Gallery, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg VA, September 1995 – Exhibition of over 100 works in Oil, Acrylic, pastel, & watercolor

PUBLICATIONS:

Ontology of the Image“The Seattle Group” , 2009, Tracy Boyd

“James Justin Brown, New Works 2004 - 2007”

"The Renascent - Painting vol. 1, J. Morse, 2005

Exhibition Catalog “James Justin Brown, Delight Hamilton Gallery 2004”

"The Artists Bluebook - 29,000 North American Artists", Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Ed), 2003

"insanity", Nightfall of Diamonds, August 1997 - poem

Self published book of poetry “Journey up the Mountain” 2001

OTHER EVENTS:

Henry Art Gallery, auction - Bash Art, Seattle WA - May 18, 2007
PONCHO - Invitational Fine Art Auction, Seattle WA - 2006

"Art Detour Seattle 2004 - Center on Contemporary Arts - " Open Studio

Museum of Northwest Art, auction - La Conner, WA - June, 2005
Henry Art Gallery, auction - Bash Art, Seattle WA - July 30, 2005
Montserrat College of Art 17th Annual Auction – Exhibition and Auction - May 2003
Montserrat College of Art 16th Annual Auction – Exhibition and Auction - May 2002
Blacksburg "Steppin' Out" art fair, August 1997
Virginia Tech College of Architecture, charity auction – Exhibition and Auction - Spring 1993

COLLECTIONS:

Coos Art Museum - Coos Bay, Oregon (3 paintings)

114 works in private collections in 21 states and 4 countries

COMMISSIONS:

1998 - Mercy – 30”x42” Charcoal – Jim Vogler, Chicago Illinois

MEDIUMS:

Oil, Acrylic, Oil pastel, Charcoal, Pastel, Gouache, Water color, Pen, Colored pencil, Ink, Chalk, Magic marker, Pencil, Saliva, Broken paintbrush pieces, Varnishes, and finishes, Cigarette ash, Wine, Crayon, Plant pigments, Wood, Other water based paints, Digital pixels, Blood, Plaster, Metal, smoke

Applied to:

Linen, cotton canvas, Masonite, Cardboard, Wood, Canvas board, Charcoal paper, Water color paper, Brown crate paper, Sketch paper, Unstretched canvas, Paper bags, Cardboard, Wood, clothing, other Cloth, My body, Walls, Table clothes, Paper fragments, Rubylith, Napkins, Magazines

Applied with:

Paintbrushes, Broken paintbrushes, Fingers, Sticks, pointed objects, Chisels, Knives, Other parts of my body, Hammers, Fire, Random available household objects, Sheer will power