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New York Show

I'll be showing a big new drawing in this show, i guess it's a few blocks away from PS1, wish I could be there.

"GENOGRAM"

Featured artists include: Amy Ruppel, Anton Lopez, Chad Phillips, Chris Yormick, David Trumpf, Eliana Perez, Fabian Bedolla, Hisham Bharoocha, Jacob Williams, Jeff Lewis, Jesse Brown, Jennifer Garcia, Leah Ellis, Marc McAndrews, Mike Skinner, Peter Kienzle / Superette, Randy Lott, Nille Svensson/Sweden Graphics, Thundercut, Tobias Zarius, Tine Lundsfryd, Yoh Nagao and Brandon Downing of the Flarf Collective.

WE-ARE-FAMILIA plans to host a succession of exhibitions and free cultural events in otherwise unoccupied raw spaces within Brooklyn, Queens, and Miami.

OPENING
Ten63 Jackson Avenue
Long Island City, New York 11101
Tuesday, August 24 from 7 to 10 PM
 

with performance by SOFT CIRCLE.

GALLERY HOURS
Weekdays from 4 to 9 PM.
Saturdays from 4 to 11 PM with DJ CEROCK.
Sundays from 4 to 8 PM.
Closed Mondays.

Solo Show in Seattle

I have an opening this Saturday, hope you can make it.

"Of Paper And Light"

Installation of paper cut-out sculptures 

with original music to accompany the works.

With these new works, Seattle artist Jesse Brown's shapes and patterns are 

added by taking away. Rather than adding marks to the paper, the cutouts form the image and their absence allows for the interaction with light, 

the works combine drawing of graphic material with three dimensional structure.

Artist Bio:

Jesse Brown is a multidisciplinary visual artist based in Seattle, Wa.

His work has been exhibited with galleries in Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland, Chicago, New York, Tokyo, Berlin, London and Paris.

Jesse's work is often an exploration in geometric forms, pattern, shape and repetition which display a very clean, graphic quality. He is know for working in a wide variety of mediums including drawing, painting, sculpture, public art, installation, 

artist books, video and animation.

http://www.papervspencil.com

From the gallery-

"Artist JESSE BROWN will be transforming the space with his paper cut-out sculpture work.  The subtlety of his choice of white on white allows for a powerful interaction of space and shadow. As a new addition to the COMING SOON concept, we are also launching retail products to be sold at the event.  These products are designed and made by JESSE BROWN + COMING SOON.  The items will be limited as they will not only be exclusively sold at the show and the COMING SOON online shop [www.comingsoonconcept.com] but directly relate to the concept of JESSE's installation- all original designs. "

Coming Soon
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3623 Fremont Avenue N.
Seattle. WA 98103

Mural

Some photos of a mural I designed a few months ago at West Seattle High School.
I taught a handmade typography workshop with a group of students there who selected the quotes and helped paint the mural, they ended up making some really rad type drawings and paintings, maybe i'll post some of them later.
*Project in collaboration with Artworks & Ymca

Working

Some photos from the studio

Poster

Here's a poster I made recently,
Throw Me The Statue commissioned this piece
for their spring Asia tour.

VHS Library

This is a project I've been slowly working on for some time now.
The idea came after Derek and I watched a documentary borrowed from the Seattle Public Library, it was this amazing Buckminster Fuller video that was in the most hideous vhs box with out any of the original packaging. It seemed to me that a good film should also have good packaging and this would hopefully influence more people to watch the film. I'm specifically interested in the VHS boxes as they are sort of a dying format. So the I started searching through local library branches to find films that had the same kind of potential as the Fuller documentary, I would check them out, research the film and then design new packaging which would then replace the old. The tapes are returned back into circulation.
More of these are in the works, but here are a few images of some recent films I worked on.
*click to view larger images

New Video!!!

This is a stop-motion video I've been working on with the very talented Christian Hansen for the last several months. It was finally released today, happy to finally share it.

Pattern

This is the piece I'm showing in the 20Twenty show, been a while since I made a painting.

Show

Made the poster for this group show at 20Twenty.
Opening Reception
April 10th

Prints. Tomorrow

The folks at Imperial Motion are having a show of some of their new line plus prints by artists they work with.
This is one of mine they will be selling tomorrow.
Come buy a print and drink free beer from Pyramid.
Evo (Times Infinity Gallery)
122 NW 36 Street. In Fremont.
6-9 PM

Video Projection

This Friday I'll be showing a new stop-motion animation video at Coming Soon, a new gallery and concept store in Seattle. The video will be projected outside on a large concrete wall and will play on a loop. Come by after dark.

Paper Cut

Experimenting with some new work in paper.

NEUE Magazine

Asked me to contribute for the Barcelona issue.
You can view the rest here-
http://www.showusyourtype.com/

Chicago Show

"Let There Be Geo"
 A+D Gallery
Columbia College

Opening Reception: March 4th, 5–8 pm

Participating artists include
Jesse Brown, Nick Butcher, Jeff Canham, 
Jacob Hashimoto, Maya Hayuk, Cody Hudson, Steven Husby, Barbara Kasten, 
Chad Kouri, Nadine Nakanishi, John Parot, Sam Prekop, Archer Prewitt,
Geoffrey Todd Smith, Jason Urban and Vanesa Zendejas.

Curated by Elizabeth Burke-Dain . March 4 – april 24, 2010

Gallery Website

New York Show

WE-ARE-FAMILIA at FOUNTAIN N.Y.C.
DURING THE ARMORY SHOW WEEKEND March 4 - 7 2010
PIER 66 AT 26 STREET AND WEST SIDE HIGHWAY, MINI BOOTH 2

 

Please join us for the 4th edition of Fountain Art Fair New York,

running opposite The Armory Show from March 4 - 7. This year, Fountain
features 20 cutting-edge galleries and independent projects including an
exhibition space by We-Are-Familia displaying Keepsake Boxes Nos. 5 - 8 of 25
in addition to a selection of new work by art clan members Jesse Brown,
Change Design, Tine Lundsfryd, Marc McAndrews, Ana Strika,
Thundercut, David Trumpf and Tobias Zarius.

For tickets to the VIP preview event on Thursday, March 4th
to benefit the Museum of Art and Design.

General Admission is $10 March 5 to 7, 11 AM - 7 PM
Opening Reception March 5, 7 PM - 12 AM
ARTLOG LIVE and Marky Ramone March 6, 7 PM - 12 AM

 

 I'll be showing some newer drawings in the Fountain Fair, have a look if you're

in New York.

More Info about the Fair- 

http://fountainexhibit.com/

Studio

Found this photo on an old hard drive today.
Type works in my old studio at Cairo.
Come by the opening at 35th tonight if you're in town.

xo.
Jesse

Opening Thursday

Come by and see my show at 35th.
corner of pike & 11th.  6-9pm
Seattle

Chicago Show

"LET THERE BE GEO"
ART EXHIBITION AT COLUMBIA COLLEGE CHICAGO

Let There Be Geo is an art exhibition at Columbia College Chicago’s Leviton A+D Gallery that surveys the art of contemporary artists who use geometric form in their work. While employing geometric form in art is not a new phenomenon, geo forms are appearing in some of the most aesthetically progressive work being made today. Twenty-first century responses to geometric form make use of a variety of styles and media, from painting and video to photography and sculpture. The works in Let There Be Geo examine today’s incarnation of geometric form.
"The persistence of artistic geometric forms hints at a continuum, or a legacy, or some coy deity made present in this world by his shadow, cast as a polygon, on the eyeball of the artist," writes Jason Foumberg in the exhibition's essay."

Participating artists include: Jesse Brown, Nick Butcher, Jeff Canham, Jacob Hashimoto, Maya Hayuk, Cody Hudson, Steven Husby, Barbara Kasten, Chad Kouri, Nadine Nakanishi, John Parot, Sam Prekop, Archer Prewitt, Geoffrey Todd Smith, Jason Urban and Vanesa Zendejas.

Let There Be Geo is curated by Elizabeth Burke-Dain.

WHEN: March 4 – April 24, 2010
March 4 from 5-9 p.m. Opening Reception

WHERE: Columbia College Chicago’s Leviton A+D Gallery
619 S. Wabash

www.colum.edu/adgallery

*Image by Cody Hudson

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Opening Photos

Here are a few photos from the install and opening of the show last night.
The work will be up for the month if you want to see the show.

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BoConcept Pop-Up Gallery
909 Western Avenue
Seattle.Wa 98104

Opening Thursday

I'll be showing a new installation of drawings & sculpture
this First Thursday at BoConcept in Pioneer Square.

Hope you can make it.

xo.

New Print

A collaborative print I made with Chad Kouri while I was in Chicago.
The Post Family has a few of these for sale...
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STACKS

Studio

This is what it looks like before I build the cubes.

Working

on a new website.

Drawing

I found this drawing I made for a show at Colette a few years ago.