Lynne Margaret Brown

Jan Kohlberg

Lynne is a visual artist, academic, editor and community program manager currently working and living between New York City and Berlin. Raised in Queens, NY she was a student in the New York City public school system which greatly influenced and supported her development in the visual and performing arts. Following high school Lynne attended Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts where she received a bachelor’s degree in visual arts, minoring in dance. After graduation Lynne held the position of gallery assistant at the QCC Art Gallery in Queens and then personal archivist for the Neo-realist artist Arman in his home and studio in New York City.

While working she continued her education, receiving a master’s degree with  teaching certification in art and art education from Teachers College Columbia University. Following several years of teaching K-12 art and art education at both Kean and William Paterson University, Lynne went on to receive an additional master’s degree in studio art through New York University in Venice and Berlin. Post-graduation Lynne obtained a summer certificate through the Transart Institute, Berlin. Most recently Lynne received an MPhil with all doctoral studies complete in aesthetic philosophy and art theory at the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts.

Jackie Dicker

Overarching praxis statement:

Wishing to continue her research in aesthetic philosophy and art theory with the desire to incorporate her visual arts practice, teaching and education experience she has currently moved into the philosophical based field of expressive arts therapy. As of September 2021, she is an expressive arts therapy (ExaT) trainee and second-year student at Exa Berlin, a program that works collaboratively with EGS, the European Graduate School, where she will continue her academic studies.

Lynne Margaret Brown

Current art and/or research interest:

Through the use or incorporation of video, text, photography, drawing, mixed media, sound, printmaking and sited constructions Lynne’s work questions and orbits around society, social life and cultural agency. As an interdisciplinary artist her work engages with contemporary and historic research regarding identity, anti-identity, socio-political aesthetics and research into her idea/theory of "aesthetic action".

Lynne has won a residency in multimedia art at Arts@Renaissance, Brooklyn, NY, a scholarship in the visual arts and travel study through the National Gallery Art and Museum School NY (presently the New York School of the Arts), a fellowship and solo exhibition in printmaking at the Internazionale Scuola di Grafica in Venice as well a residency and solo exhibition for a community visual arts / film project through the Berlin Collective and kulturspace in Berlin. Her drawings, mixed media, sculpture, film, photographs, and video works have been exhibited in New York, NY, Venice, Italy, Berlin, Germany and L’Isle D’Abeau France.

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