LINDA LUISE BROWN CURRICULUM VITAE
Contact: Telephone: 704-577-4144 Email: lindaluise@bellsouth.net Website: www.lindaluisebrown.com Instagram: quinoalinguini
About: Studio painter & freelance writer / art critic & educator
Manager: Gemini Studio; The Dee Brown LLC, Charlotte, NC
Studio: C3Lab, Charlotte, NC
Birth: Havre de Grace, Maryland USA
Education:
M. F. A., Painting, The University of Oklahoma, Norman OK (1990);
M. A., Aesthetics, Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities University of Texas at Dallas (1979);
Graduate Study in Painting, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX (1974);
B. F. A., Painting, The University of Illinois, Urbana IL (1972).
Also: Designs on fabric at: https://shopvida.com/search?x=0&y=0&q=LindaLuise
Awards & Fellowships:
Artist Support Grant, Arts & Science, Charlotte, North Carolina
Artist in Residence, (in collaboration with David Walters), Arte Studio Ginestrelle, Assisi, Perugia, Italy (September 2014); http://artestudioginestrelle.wordpress.com;
Artist in Residence, Arte Studio Ginestrelle, Assisi, Perugia, Italy (March 2013), http://artestudioginestrelle.wordpress.com;
Affiliate Artist in Residence, McColl Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, NC (April 2013 – August 2014), http://www.mccollcenter.org/artists-in-residence/alumni/113/linda-luise-brown;
Affiliate Artist in Residence, McColl Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, NC (2004/06), http://www.mccollcenter.org/artists-in-residence/alumni/113/linda-luise-brown;
Fellowship in Painting, Oklahoma University, Norman, OK (1988/90);
Fellowship in Painting, The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH (1984) https://www.macdowell.org/artists?q=Linda+Brown (Linda Brown)
EXHIBITIONS
Solo
2020 Love & Gravity, The Elizabeth Ross Gallery, Central Piedmont Community College, Charlotte, NC
2013 Spectrum, New Gallery of Modern Art, Charlotte, North Carolina
2010 Oil Spill: large scale oil paintings, Central Piedmont Community College, Pease Gallery, Charlotte, NC
2009 Color & Motion, Design Within Reach, SouthPark, Charlotte, NC
2008 Linda Brown Abstractions,Simpson College Art Department, Farnham Gallery, Indianola, Iowa
2007 Linda Luise Brown at Dialect, Charlotte, NC
2006 Lyrical Abstractions, Modern Eye Gallery, Charlotte, NC
2005 FRESH PAINT: New Paintings from the McColl Center at the UNC-Charlotte College of Architecture,
Storrs Gallery, Charlotte, NC
2000 New Paintings, Queens College Art Gallery, Charlotte, NC
1992 Constructed Fragments, UNC-Charlotte College of Architecture, Storrs Gallery
Two-Person
2013 The Convergence of the Twain, with Jason Watson, McColl Center for Visual Arts, Charlotte, North Carolina
2010 LB-squared, GalleryUp, Rock Hill, SC (LB2 :Laura Barnhart & Linda Luise Brown collaborative show)
2002 New Work, with Elizabeth Marin, Center of the Earth Gallery Charlotte, NC
1995 Constructed Episodes, with David Walters, Chroma Gallery, Little Rock, AR
1994 Surface & Palimpsest, with David Walters The Waterworks Visual Arts Center, Salisbury, NC Curator: Ronald L. Crusan, Director of the Waterworks NC
1992 Building Polemics, Juried Competition with David Walters, College of Architecture, UNC-Charlotte, NC;
Juror: Ken Bloom, Dir., Spirit Square Center for the Arts, Charlotte, NC
1992 Rhyme and Reason, with David Walters, Chroma Gallery, Little Rock, AR
1990 Modules of Reality, with David Walters, Baker Gallery, Little Rock, AR
Group: Invitational & Competitive
2020 31st Annual Juried Competition, The Dalton Gallery, Arts Council of York County, Rock Hill SCJuror: David M. Detrich
2019 Transparency, Elder Gallery of Contemporary Art, Charlotte, NC
2018 McColl Center Alumni + Local Artists Showcase, Anne Neilson Fine Art, Charlotte, NC
2017 Intersection, Resident Artists C3Lab, Charlotte, NC
2016 Intersection, Resident Artists C3Lab, Charlotte, NC
2016 InFocus, Greenville Center for North Carolina Art, Greenville, NC
2016 DaDa Soirée: An Absurd Art Show C3Lab, Charlotte, NC
2015 Summer Art Soirée New Works, New Gallery of Modern Art, Charlotte, North Carolina
2014 International Contemporary Art Exhibition 2014, Art Gallery Le Logge, Piazza del Commune Assisi, Italy
2014 CHROMA: lyrical lines and compulsive color Greg Scott, Linda Luise Brown and Marge Moody, UNC-Charlotte Center City Building Projective Eye Gallery
2013 International Contemporary Art Exhibition 2013, Art Gallery Le Logge, Piazza del Commune Assisi, Italy
2013 Affiliate Artists, McColl Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, NC
2012 Arts Council of York County’s 23rd Annual Juried Competition Exhibition Dalton Gallery, Center for the Arts, Rock Hill, SC; Juror: George Kaperonis
2011 Three North Carolina Artists, Juried Exhibitions Series Chapel Hill Town Hall, Chapel Hill, NC
2011 North Carolina Artists’ Exhibition, Raleigh Fine Arts Society, Raleigh, NC; Juror: Peter Nisbit, Chief Curator of the Ackland Art Museum, The Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2011 The Power of Energy, Siemens Energy, Inc., (jury prize); juror: Jane Allen Nodine, professor of art, director of the Curtis R. Harley Art Gallery, University of South Carolina upstate, Charlotte Art League, Charlotte, NC
2011 Showdown, Hart-Witzen Gallery, Charlotte, NC
2010 Three-Artist Show: Fusion, Providence Gallery, Charlotte, NC
2010 Through the Rabbit Hole, The Galleries at Cabarrus Arts Council Historic Courthouse, 65 Union Street South, Concord, North Carolina
2010 30 Small Works, (LB2 collaborative piece) GalleryUp, Rock Hill, SC • Ce Scott, juror
2010 North to South (LB2 collaborative piece) Green Rice Gallery, Charlotte, NC
2009 30 Small Works, (LB2 collaborative piece) GalleryUp, Rock Hill, SC; Sharon Dowell, juror
2009 Flower Power, Edge Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2008 Non-Objective Energies, Edge Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2007 SOUP 4, Hart Witzen Gallery, Charlotte, NC, October-November 2007
2003/04 Maker versus Material, Twelfth Annual Art Exhibition, Main Atrium, Bank of America Plaza Charlotte, NC Sponsor: Trizec Properties; curator: Joie Lassiter Gallery NC
2004-2010 Affiliates of McColl Center for Visual Arts / ARPA 10 traveling group exhibitions:
2011 ARPA: Raw, GalleryUp, Rock Hill, SC
2010 ARPA: Opulence/Opulence Lost, Adam Ramsey Miller (ARM) Gallery, Concord, NC
2009/10 ARPA: Opulence/Opulence Lost, Waterworks Visual Arts Center, Salisbury, NC
2008 ARPA 10: Just Works, Rock Hill Arts Council, Dalton Gallery Rock Hill, SC
2008 ARPA InsideOut, Rauch Gallery, Gaston College, Gastonia, NC
2008 ARPA 10: Just Works, UNC at Charlotte, Rowe Gallery, Charlotte, NC
2007 ARPA 10: Affiliations Inside and Out, traveling group exhibition origination: Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation, Watkinsville, GA
2004/5 Affiliates of McColl Center for Visual Arts, McColl Center, Charlotte, North Carlina
Fall 2005 Affiliate Artists, McColl Center for Visual Arts Charlotte, NCSpring 2005 Affiliates Exhibition, McColl Center for Visual Arts, Charlotte, NC
Summer 2005 Affiliates Exhibition, McColl Center for Visual Arts, Charlotte, NC
Fall 2004 Affiliates Exhibition, McColl Center for Visual Arts, Charlotte, NC
2002 What's New: Juried Exhibition of art by Carolina artists; Sponsor: McColl Center for Visual Art Spirit Square Galleries, Charlotte, NC; curator: Pallas Lombardi
2001 The Energy of Color, Center of the Earth Gallery, Charlotte, N
2000/01 Artists of Charlotte, Fayetteville Museum of Art, Fayetteville, NC
COLLECTIONS
Corporate & Institutional:
Alltel Corporation (Little Rock)
Ally Bank (Charlotte)
IBM (Dallas)
Federal Reserve Bank (Charlotte)
Bank of America (Charlotte)
Commerz Bank International (Germany)
Invesco Funds Group (Atlanta)
Booz, Allen & Hamilton, Inc. (Charlotte)
Hytrol Corporation (Arkansas)
Kajima International Development Corp. (Atlanta)
S.A.S Institute, Charlotte, North Carolina (Atlanta)
Taushe, Martin, Lonsdorf Advertising (Atlanta)
T. D. K. Electronics (Atlanta)
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
University of Oklahoma Museum of Art (Norman)
Arkansas Arts Center (Little Rock)
Port Arthur Public Library, (Port Arthur, Texas)
Private:
Atlanta, Georgia
Berlin, Germany
Boston, Massachusetts
Cairo, Egypt
Charlotte, North Carolina
Dallas, Texas
Davidson, North Carolina
Des Moines, Iowa
Houston, Texas
Little Rock & North Little Rock, Arkansas
Los Angeles, California
New York, New York
Norman & Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Rock Hill, South Carolina
Sacramento, California
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Urbana, Illinois
Washington, D. C.
Bibliography
2014 Peachy the Magazine, April-May 2014, pps. 5, 62; http://www.joomag.com/magazine/peachy-the-magazine-april-may-2014/0637911001396581367
2013 Charlotte Wedding Magazine, October 2013 http://www.charlottemagazine.com/Charlotte-Wedding/October-2013/Display-of-Affection/
2010 "Color rules at Pease Gallery’s Oil Spill exhibit" by Barbara Schreiber Point 8 blog in Visual Art; Creative Loafing (08.10) http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/point8/2010/08/31/color-rules-at-pease-gallerys-oil-spill-exhibit/;
2010 Studio Visit: Juried Selection of International Visual Artists, Volume Eleven, The Open Studios Press http://www.studiovisitmagazine.com/volumes11.html;
2009 Studio Visit: Juried Selection of International Visual Artists, Volume Five, The Open Studios Press www.studiovisitmagazine.com;
2008 Women's Work at Edge Gallery by Jessica Fowler WHERE PHILADELPHIA (08.08) Philadelphia, PA
2008 Women on the Edge: edge gallery presents five woman artists at Edge Gallery by Jan Feighner Art Matters (08.08) Philadelphia, PA
2007 A Painter with the Write Stuff By Susan Rivers Profile: Linda Luise Brown Today's Charlotte Woman (09.07) Charlotte, NC
2005 Sanctuary of Creativity By Meg Freeman Whalen "Four local women . . . inside the McColl Center for Visual Art, . ." Charlotte Magazine, (12.05) Charlotte, North Carolina
TEACHING & Related Activities
2017 Artist’s Talk, The Charlotte Artists’Guild, The Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC
2016 Painting with the CSO, (Charlotte Symphony Orchestra) Winterfield School, Charlotte
2013 Artist’s Talk, West Charlotte High School
2013 Writing about Art, University of North Carolina at Charlotte (special arts class)
2012 Instructor “Beyond Scrapbooking – Collage as an Art Form” Hodges Taylor Humanities Campus
The Center for Lifelong Learning, Hayworth College, Queens University of Charlotte
2011 Art Judging, “I am Woman,” Southern Arts Society (at the Depot), Kings Mountain, NC
2010 "Modernism," lecture at Charlotte Art League
2010 "How I Work," Gallery Talk with students at CPCC
2006 Artists' Forum: "Painter and McColl Center for Visual Art affiliate Linda Luise Brown and UNC-Charlotte professor and digital media specialist Jeff Murphy talk about their work." Mint Museum of Art, www.mintmuseum.org
2002 "Art Critics Speak," Friends of the Mint Museum panel discussion with Richard Maschal and Tom Patterson. Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte2002 Artist Selection Panel, McColl Center for the Visual Arts (formerly Tryon Center for the Visual Arts) Charlotte, NC2001 Graduate Student Thesis Committee, UNC-Charlotte College of Architecture2001 Juror - poster design, Bike Art, City of Charlotte Dept. of Transportation and Charlotte Art League
Charlotte, NC2001 Gallery Talk: "Art Criticism," Hodges-Taylor Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina
2000 Lecture-Discussion with Slides: Daniel Libeskind’s Jewish Museum in Berlin; The Jewish Cultural Center Charlotte, North Carolina1999--2000 Member, Artists’ Advisory Committee, Tryon Center for the Visual Arts, Charlotte, NC1998--2000 Guest Speaker: Art Writing, UNC-Charlotte Art Department, Charlotte, NC
1998 Juror, AIA (American Institute of Architects) Awards Panel for Columbia, SC.1994 –95 Guest Speaker, Art Writing, UNC-Charlotte Art Department, Charlotte, NC1996--99 Public Art Consultant in various North Carolina Community Design Charrettes1995 Selection Panel Member, Public Art Commission: public art for public library in Charlotte, NC
Arts & Science Council, Charlotte, NC
1994 Judge, Aubrey Atkinson Spring Show, Rowan-Cabarrus Community College & Rowan Art Guild, Inc. Salisbury, NC
1994 Guest Critic, Third Year Architecture Design Project, College of Architecture, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, N. C.1993 Guest Critic, First Year Architecture Design Project, College of Architecture, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, N. C.
1993 Panel Member, The Critic as Educator, North Carolina Art Critics & Art Writers, Seminar, Central Piedmont Community College, Charlotte, North Carolina. 1993 Researcher and Assistant Curator for Our Public Image, Hans & Walter Bechtler Gallery, Curators’ Forum Charlotte, NC
1992 Faculty Juror, Sanskrit Magazine, University of North Carolina at Charlotte1992 Joint Paper Presentation with David Walters: "Conversations between Foxes & Hedgehogs: Concepts of Site and Territory in the Art of Sol LeWitt & Jean Tinguely," American Collegiate Schools of Architecture Annual Conference, East Central Region; University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada 1992 Guest Speaker: "Artist’s Talk," Introduction to Art, Central Piedmont Community College, Charlotte, NC
1987 Panel Member: "Arkansas Artists Talk About the Legacy of Abstract Expressionism"The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas
Teaching: College and Graduate level
1990 –97 Adjunct Instructor, Two-Dimensional Design, Art Criticism, and Graduate Seminar: Aesthetics, Theory & Criticism, Department of Art and Design Winthrop University, School of Visual & Performing Arts, Rock Hill, SC1990-92 Adjunct Instructor, Two-Dimensional Design and Art AppreciationDepartment of Visual Art, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
1991 Adjunct Instructor, Summer Enrichment Program for children and teens The Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina.
1990 -91 Adjunct Instructor, History of Art II (The Renaissance), Central Piedmont Community College Charlotte, North Carolina1988 - 90 Adjunct Instructor, Life Drawing, The University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma
1989 - 90 Adjunct Instructor, Life Drawing and Figure PaintingThe Firehouse Art Center, Norman, Oklahoma1987 Co-teacher (with David Walters), Graduate Seminar: Postmodernism in Architecture and the Visual Arts, The School of Architecture, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma
1977-9 Graduate Teaching Assistant and Graduate Research Assistant, University of Texas at Dallas