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Carol K. Brown
Abstract Mixed Media Biomorphism Wall Sculpture. Miami Artist Carol K Brown

c.1995

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This is a wall sculpture of a protruding abstract organic appendage form. They are in the form of Surrealist fantastic flora and fauna. It is from her 1990-1995 series called tondos & squares. This is a mixed media sculpture composed of plastic/resin (it looks like blackened steel), rubber and metal wire. Hand signed verso. This sale is for one. I have 5 of them available, they make a great wall installation grouping. Carol K. Brown is an American woman artist born in Memphis, Tennessee and lives and works in New York and Miami Beach, Florida. Brown works with sculpture, painting, photography, video, digital and installation art. She has received the State of Florida Fine Arts Fellowship (1983), Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art Fellowship (1986), and two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship (1984 and 1986). Her work is owned by the Perez Art Museum Miami, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University. She is a professor of sculpture at the New World School of the Arts in Miami. She was included in the show Making Art in Miami along with Jose Bedia; Consuelo Castaneda; Quisqueya Henriquez; Maria Martinez-Canas; Tag Purvis; Karen A. Rifas; Rafael Salazar; Cesar Trasobares and Sandy Winters. Museum and public collections Her art is owned by the Denver Art Museum, Colorado; University of Colorado, Boulder; City of Orlando, Art in Public Spaces in Miami-Dade County Art in Public Spaces, and Miami-Dade County Public Library. She is included in the book, North American women artists of the twentieth century: a biographical dictionary. Carol K. Brown has exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Boise Art Museum; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.; the Contemporary Art Center of New Orleans, among others. Her work is in numerous public and private collections including the Miami Art Museum; the Jacksonville Art Museum; the Denver Art Museum; the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; the Frost Art Museum at FIU; and Miami-Dade Art in Public Spaces. Feminist art. This work draws from the Biomorphist tradition, artistic elements taken from naturally occurring patterns or shapes reminiscent of nature and living organisms. Joan Miró, Jean Arp, Henry Moore, Isamu Noguchi and Barbara Hepworth are all artists whose work epitomises the use of biomorphic form. This work also bears the influence of surrealism. Select collections: Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA Perez Art Museum, Miami, FL Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL City of Orlando, Art in Public Places, Orlando, FL University of Colorado, Boulder, CO Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, FL Jacksonville Art Museum, Jacksonville, FL Polk Museum, Lakeland, FL The Frost Art Museum at FIU, Miami, FL Miami-Dade County Art in Public Places, Miami, FL University of Florida, Gainesville, FL Florida International University, Miami, FL Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Memphis Brooks Museum of Art Arkansas Arts Center – Museum of Art, Little Rock, AR Miami-Dade County Public Library, Miami, FL Atlantic Richfield Corporation Craig Robins-Dacra Collection Eastern National Bank Corporation United Yarn Products awards: 1992 State of Florida Fine Arts Fellowship 1986 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship SECCA (Southeastern Center for Contemporary Arts) Fellowship 1984 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship 1983 State of Florida Fine Arts Fellowship Select solo exhibitions: 2019 Down the Rabbit Hole, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY 2017 Laöcoon’s Folley, Under the Bridge Art Space, North Miami, FL 2014 OffSpring, Under the Bridge Art Space, North Miami, FL 2009 Passersby & Other Sidewalk Stories, Scott White Contemporary 2004 Ambrosino Gallery, Miami, FL Scope/Miami, Vanessa Suchar, London, England 1996 Lehman College, Bronx, NY Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY 1995 Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Coral Gables, FL 1993 Jacksonville Art Museum, Jacksonville, FL Jaffe Baker Blau Gallery, Boca Raton, FL 1992 Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY 1991 Gloria Luria Gallery, Bay Harbor Islands, FL 1988 Bacardi Sculpture Plaza and Gallery, Miami, FL 1987 Center for the Fine Arts, Sculpture Plaza, (now Perez Art Museum Miami), 1986 Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL 1980 UMC Gallery, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 1979 Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA 1978 Mini Gallery, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL 1977 Miami-Dade Community College, South Campus, Miami, FL Selected group exhibitions: 2018 Returning Paths, New World School of the Arts, Miami, FL 2017 I Am Woman Hear Me Roar, Fountainhead projects, Miami, FL New Space, New Place, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York 2016 Feminist Feminine, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York 2004 Transitory Patterns, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC Art Basel/Miami Beach, Ambrosino Gallery, Miami Beach, FL Realism Invitational, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA Spectacle of Sound, Miami-Dade Public Library System, Miami, FL In the Back Room, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY Scope New York, Vanessa Suchar, London, England Palm Beach Contemporary, Evelyn Aimis Gallery, Palm Beach, FL Scope London, Vanessa Suchar, London, England Abstrategies: Abstract Painting in the Nineties, Dunedin Fine Arts Center, Dunedin, FL Rethinking Sculpture, North Miami Center of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL New Paths, New World School of the Arts, Miami, FL Form and Content, Ground Level Gallery, Miami Beach, FL Art Miami, Nohra Haime Gallery, Miami, FL The Art Show, (Art Dealers Association of America), Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY Chicago Art Fair, Nohra Haime Gallery, Chicago, IL FIAC, Nohra Haime Gallery, Paris, France 1992 The Gloria Luria Years, The Center Gallery, Miami-Dade Community College Wolfson
  • Creator:
    Carol K. Brown (1945, American)
  • Creation Year:
    c.1995
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 6 in (15.24 cm)Width: 6 in (15.24 cm)Depth: 2.5 in (6.35 cm)
  • Medium:
  • Movement & Style:
  • Period:
  • Condition:
    good, minor wear. please see photos.
  • Gallery Location:
    Surfside, FL
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU3826382272
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