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Christopher
Brown is an acclaimed painter and printmaker who currently
lives and works in the
San Francisco Bay Area. When he first began showing
his large scale figurative
paintings in San Francisco in the late 1970s, his
work was often linked with that of the Bay
Area figurative painters who preceded
him, including Elmer Bischoff, Richard Diebenkorn,
and Joan Brown. Yet Mr.
Brown's work achieved its own distinctive painterly
style, and his work based
on his study of historical photographs and films -
including civil war photography
and the Zapruder film of the Kennedy assassination,
respectively, gained national and international
recognition. Much of this work,
as well as later paintings
that focused on images of water, or scenes
derived from the neighborhood where he lives,
deal with depictions of dramatic
movement, light, and space. He is currently at work
on a number of
projects, including drawings and prints as well as
paintings based on further
neighborhood studies and short film made from his
rooftop in Berkeley, CA.
KQED's
Spark Profile on Christopher Brown
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