Collection: Gerard Brown

Bio

Gerard Brown is a writer and painter interested in the intersection between words and images. His paintings and prints and works in digital media have been exhibited at regional and national venues, including Rowan University Art Gallery and the Woodmere Art Museum. From 1995 to 2002, he contributed art writing to the Philadelphia Weekly and other regional publications, and his essays have appeared in catalogs and exhibition brochures published by the Pew Fellowships for the Arts, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and numerous commercial galleries. He also wrote a chapter on the uses of contemporary art in the discussion of history for the anthology Remixing the Civil War:  Meditations on the Sesquicentennial published by Johns Hopkins University press. He has curated exhibits for the Philadelphia Art Alliance, the Galleries at Moore College of Art & Design, the Center for Art in Wood in Philadelphia, and others. He is currently Associate Professor and Chairperson of Foundations at Tyler School of Art.