James HD Brown

Born in Los Angeles in 1927, Dead in Mexico in 2020

2007: first encounter with James Brown through this work presented at the Bordas gallery in Venice: “Internal order monotype I”. It was at this time that my infatuation with this artist was revealed, and has never wavered, or even asserted itself over time.
Galerie PJ is pleased to present “Brown on brown”, a James Brown exhibition featuring a selection of works on paper from 1989 to 2001. On view are watercolors, monotypes, lithographs, stencils, collages and multiple interventions.
In the common space, the canvas maps present their surfaces and depths, encompassing their surfaces in blue (Blue cell…), black, brown or white forms, sometimes even accompanied by emblematic figures from the sacred Amerindian land.
Then, beyond other media, we offer you a different vision of his work, revealing his “entomological memories”, a blossoming of colors accompanying you towards his most beautiful face-to-face: “Happy Prince / Monotype Georges”.
Let your emotions carry you along, and you’ll disappear and reappear.
(disappeared and reappeared). The Fifteen Indians are there to remind you.
Then come the hydrangea shapes, leading you to the “constellations” in the same way.
Line grey shape” to the “constellations”.

 

Selected Shows

  • 2021    « Brown on brown », PJ Gallery, Metz, FR
  • 2020    « Covillective », PJ Gallery, Metz, FR
  • 2019    « Collages, monotypes et estampes (1986-1992) », Lelong & Co. Gallery, Paris, FR
  • 2018    « Life and Work in Mexico », USC Fisher Museum – University of Southern California, Los Angeles, US
  • 2017    « Oval », Karsten Greve Gallery, Paris, FR
  • 2016    « El cuarto rosa », Hilario Galguera Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico
  • 2013    « My Other House », Museo Diego Rivera-Anahuacalli, Mexico City, Mexico
  • 2011    « Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing », Museum of the City of New York, New York, US
  •             « Papiers » 1985 – 1990, Lelong Gallery, Paris, FR
  • 2010    Château Lynch-Bages, Pauillac, FR
  • 2008    Lelong Gallery, Paris, FR
  • 2006    « Work on Paper, 1981-2005 », Fisher Landau Center For Art, New York, US
  • 2003    « Peintures récentes », Alice Pauli Gallery, Lausanne, Switzerland
  •             Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Malaga, Spain
  • 2002    « Impressions 1986-2002 », Center for Engraving and Printed Images, La Louvière, Belgium
  •             « Or et Plomb », Convent of the Cordeliers, Paris, FR
  • 2001    « Dela na papirju 1981 – 1998 », Lamut’s Art Salon –Božidar Jakac Gallery, Kostanjevica na Krki, Slovenia
  • 2000    « Works on Paper 1981-1998 », Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Chemnitz, Germany
  • 1999    « Œuvres sur papier, 1981-1998 », Céret Museum of Modern Art, Céret, FR
  •             Lelong Gallery, Paris, FR
  • 1998    Serge Sorokko Gallery, San Francisco, US
  • 1995    Carré St Vincent, Orléans, FR
  • 1991    « Peintures, monotypes », Alice Pauli Gallery, Lausanne, Switzerland
  • 1990    Lelong Gallery, Paris, FR
  • 1985    Institute of Contemporary Art London (ICA), London, UK
  • 1984    « Investigations 6: James Brown. Paintings », ICA – Institute of Contemporary Art – University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, US