GALEN BROWN
photograph by Chris Holloman for the Nevada Museum of Art
photograph by Chris Holloman for the Nevada Museum of Art
Galen Brown
1959-2024
Galen Brown was born in Reno in 1959 and raised in both Reno and at King’s Beach, Lake Tahoe. He was a dedicated junior ski racer on the Reno Falcons ski team and later the Lake Tahoe Ski Club, and a quiet loner in school who lacked direction until a ski accident rendered him immobile for six months. He began drawing from his bed while healing.
Brown commenced classes at the San Francisco Art Institute and stayed for the duration of his formal art education, earning a bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts in 1988 and a Master of Fine Arts in 1990. He continued studying in China and New York, and for the following 20 years Brown resisted selling his work to collectors, preferring to keep his bodies of work together.
In 2019 the Nevada Museum of Art installed his solo exhibition Sine Cere, across 3 of their expansive gallery spaces and purchased Sine Cere, the title piece, one of the large 8 foot radius circle drawings for their permanent collection.
A large body of Brown’s work was featured in Tilting the Basin, the Nevada Museum of Art survey exhibition of contemporary artists working in the state of Nevada in 2016, which also traveled to a second Museum location in Las Vegas in 2017. His work is also in the permanent collection of the Nevada Arts Council, and the newly founded Clear Creek Collection at Lake Tahoe.
The quality of Brown’s work was acknowledged with the prestigious Joan Mitchell Foundation artist’s award in 2017.
Circle series
Making sounds and Avoiding Obstacles while driving in Circles during a Snow Storm.
Galen Brown 2020
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Untitled #1 “Circle Series” pencil and bees wax on white museum board mounted on wooden frame 19” x 16” x 1 ½” PRIVATE COLLECTION
Untitled #2 “Circle Series” pencil and bees wax on white museum board mounted on wooden frame 13 1/8th” x 8 1/2” x 1 3/4”
Untitled #4 “Circle Series” pencil and bees wax on white museum board mounted on wooden frame 8 5/8th” x 8 5/8” x 2 1/2” PRIVATE COLLECTION
Untitled #5 “Circle Series” (black with white circles) pencil and bees wax on white museum board mounted on wooden frame 9 1/2” x 7 6/8” x 1 1/2” PRIVATE COLLECTION
Untitled #3 “Circle Series” pencil and bees wax on white museum board mounted on wooden frame 10” x 10” x 1 1/2”
Untitled #6 “Circle Series” pencil and bees wax on white museum board mounted on wooden frame 8” x 10” x 1 1/2” PRIVATE COLLECTION
Untitled #7 “Circle Series” (black with white circles) pencil and bees wax on white museum board mounted on wooden frame 8” x 8” x 2 1/2”
Untitled #8 “Circle Series” (black with white circles) pencil and bees wax on white museum board mounted on wooden frame 8 2/8” x 8 2/8” x 2 1/2”
Untitled #9 “Circle Series” pencil and bees wax on white museum board mounted on wooden frame 6 3/8th” x 6 1/8th” x 1 3/4” PRIVATE COLLECTION
Untitled #10 “Circle Series” pencil and bees wax on white museum board mounted on wooden frame 7 5/8th” x 4” x 1 1/2”
“Period .” - “Circle Series” (black on black cube) pencil and bees wax on white museum board mounted on wooden frame 4 1/2” x 3 1/2” x 3”
First Aid from the Sinecere exhibition
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"First Aid" Ink on Museum Board moounted on aluminum on plywood frame. 84" x 84" x 3" approx circa 2008-9
Detail of "First Aid"
Detail of "First Aid" photographs by Chris Holloman for the Nevada Museum of Art, Galen Brown solo show "Sinecere"
Walls and Doors series
Intaglio Mezzotint limited edition works
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Walls and doors series #01 Mezzotint on Somerset Satin paper Image area: 7 7/8th x 26” Print size: 11 7/8th x 30” (approx.) Edition of 10
Walls, and doors series #2 Mezzotint on Somerset Satin paper Image area: 6 6/8th x 36” Print size: 10 6/8th x 40” (approx.) Edition of 10
Walls, and doors series #3 Mezzotint on Somerset Satin paper Image area: 5 7/8th x 33” Print size: 9 7/8th x 37” (approx.) Artist Proof
Walls and doors series (darker version) Mezzotint on Somerset Satin paper Image area: 5 7/8th x 33” Print size: 9 7/8th x 37” (approx.) Artist Proof
Walls and doors series (mid range version) Mezzotint on Somerset Satin paper Image area: 5 7/8th x 33” Print size: 9 7/8th x 37” (approx.) Edition of 10
6) Walls and doors series (5 windows) Mezzotint on Somerset Satin paper Image area: 5 7/8th x 32 6/8th” Print size: 9 7/8th x 37” (approx.) Edition of 10
Windows and Doors series
Intaglio Mezzotint limited edition works
Smaller works
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Windows and doors #1 Mezzotint on Somerset Satin paper Image area: 12.5 x 3.5” Print size: 10 6/8th x 40” (approx.) Edition of 10
Windows and doors (vertical split plate) # 2. Mezzotint on Somerset Satin paper Image area: 6 x 5 ” Print size: 10 x 9” (approx.) Edition of 10
Windows and doors #3 Mezzotint on Somerset Satin paper Image area: 6 x 4” Print size: 12.5 x 10” (approx.) Edition of 10
Windows and doors #4. Mezzotint on Somerset Satin paper Image area: 6 x 4” Print size: 12.5 x 10” (approx.) Edition of 10
Windows and Doors #5 Mezzotint on Somerset Satin paper Image area: 6 x 4” Print size: 12.5 x 10” (approx.) Edition of 10
Windows and Doors #6. Mezzotint on Somerset Satin paper Image area: 6 x 4” Print size: 12.5 x 10” (approx.) Edition of 10
Windows and Doors #7 Mezzotint on Somerset Satin paper Image area: 6 x 4” Print size: 12.5 x 10” (approx.) Edition of 10
Windows and Doors #8 Mezzotint on Somerset Satin paper Image area: 6 x 4” Print size: 12.5 x 10” (approx.) Edition of 10
Windows and Doors #9 Mezzotint (on a warmer cream paper) Image area: 6 x 4” Print size: 12.5 x 10” (approx.) Artist Proof
Walls series
Intaglio Mezzotint limited editions.
Small works on paper
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Walls and floors #1 Mezzotint on Somerset Satin paper Image area: 9 1/8th x 6” Print size: 15 x 12” (approx.) Edition of 10
Walls and floors series Mezzotint on Somerset Satin paper Image area: 8 x 5 2/8” Print size: 14 x 12” (approx.) Edition of 10
Walls and floors series #4 Mezzotint on Somerset Satin paper Image area: 8 1/8th x 5 1/8th” Print size: 14” x 11” (approx.) edition of 10
Vertical Walls and Floors #1 Mezzotint on Somerset Satin paper Image area: 6 x 2 2/8th” Print size: 8.5” x 12.5” (approx.) Edition of 10
Inquiries are welcome about the larger circle works shown at the Nevada Museum of Art, at Galen Brown’s solo exhibition Sine Cere
Galen Brown Exhibitions
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2022 “OCD 2,” Melhop Gallery, Zephyr Cove Nevada.
2021 “OCD OCD OCD” Melhop Gallery, Zephyr Cove Nevada.
2019 Solo Nevada Museum of Art, “Sine Cere”
2016 - 2017 “Tilting The Basin” group show Nevada Museum of Art
2015 “Art In progress” work on Trees for 6 weeks in the gallery, Group show WNC Carson City NV.
2014 “ Waves “ Nevada Humanities Las Vegas NV.
2014 “Trees” Installation Artist In residence St Marys Art Center Virginia City NV.
2013 Group Show TMCC Without Edges Photos and Prints.
2011 Geographical Divides, Traveling Print Exhibition
2010 2011 Art at the BRIC
2009 and 2010 WNC Red Blue and Other Colors, Carson City and Fallon Campus
2008 Nevada Arts Council, OXS Gallery, Sine Cera
2008 Waves: Line and Rhythm. Carson City Courthouse, CCAI Gallery
2008 Print Makers Conspiracy Group show TMCC
2008 WNC Faculty Group Show
2007 WNCC Drawings
1998 City of Oakland Neighborhood Windows Project Swing installation
1998 Simple Pleasures, Group Show. Traywick Gallery.
1997 Christmas Group Show, Bedford Gallery
1997 Inaugural Group Show, Traywick Gallery
1997 Discard Secession Gallery, Catharine Clark Gallery
1996 Southern Exposure's Sixth Annual Juried Exhibition: Confess. Juror: Thelma Golden, Associate Curator, and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1996 Discard Secession Gallery, Catharine Clark Gallery
1995 The Frame Show, Palo Alto Cultural Center Invitational
1994 Invitational Book Show, Palo Alto Cultural Center
1990 Masters of Fine Art Exhibition, SF Fort Mason Center
1989 College Art Association Graduate Group Show, San Francisco State University
1984-1989 Spring Show, San Francisco Art Institute
1986 Visiting Student Group Show, Zhejiang Academy of Fine Art, Hangzhou, Peoples Republic of China
1986 Selected Undergraduate Drawings Group Show, Osaka, Japan