Education
Master of Arts Degree,
Drawing/Design New Mexico State University, 1983.
Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree,
Printmaking/Ceramics/DesignIndiana/Purdue University, 1980
Honors
School of the Art Institute of ChicagoMerit Scholarship, 1985Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society, 1984New Mexico State University research grant 1983Graduate Teaching Fellowship, New Mexico State University, 1981
Exhibitions
2006
Group Exhibition: Craighead Green Gallery, Dallas Texas2005
Solo Exhibition: Sydney Patrick Gallery, Dallas Texas
2003
Group Exhibition: Edith Baker Gallery, Dallas Texas
1999
Recent Work, Frank Brown, Debbie Ballard Edith Baker Gallery, Dallas Texas
“20x20”: 500X Gallery, Dallas Texas
Waco Art Center, Waco Texas Richland College, Richardson Texas
1998
Self Portrait Show: Edith Baker Gallery, Dallas Texas Brookhaven
Faculty Exhibition Brookhaven College, Dallas, Texas1997
Celebration: 20th Anniversary Invitational, Edith Baker Gallery, Dallas Texas
Absurd Realities: Frank Brown & Tom Pribyl, Edith Baker Gallery, Dallas
Texas
1996
Hope: Edith Baker Gallery, Dallas Texas
1995
History and Memory: Frank Brown, Paul Ramirez, Janet Tyson, University of Dallas, Irving Texas Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi Texas Gallery
Artists: Select Gallery: Sedona Arizona
Reveries: Recent Work: Frank Brown, Peter Presnail, Gary Richardson: Edith Baker Gallery, Dallas Texas
1994
A Show of Hands: Edith Baker Gallery, Dallas Texas
1993
Recent Work: Ellen Herman, Frank Brown, Frank Di Placido: Edith Baker Gallery, Dallas Texas
Small Works: Edith Baker Gallery, Dallas Texas
1992
Tempest Fugit: Edith Baker Gallery, Dallas Texas
Opening Exhibition: Gallery Artists: Edvard Read Contemporary Gallery Johannesburg, South Africa
1992
Frank Brown: Solo Exhibition Anthony Ardavin Gallery, Atlanta Georgia
Beau Arts Ball Exhibition: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Texas
1991
Recent Work: Frank Brown, Peter Presnail, Gary Richardson Edith Baker Gallery, Dallas Texas
Painting Invitational: Brookhaven College, Dallas Texas
1990
Recent Work: Denise Brown, Frank Brown Edith Baker Gallery, Dallas Texas
Small Works Under 1000$ Edith Baker Gallery, Dallas Texas
Counter Signals: Hickory Street Annex, Dallas Texas
1989
Small Works Under 1000$ Edith Baker Gallery, Dallas Texas
Driven Show: Mark Twain Bank, Kansas City Missouri
TV Show: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Texas
Gallery Artists: Alternate Gallery, Dallas Texas
Gallery Artists: Read Stremmel Gallery, San Antonio, Texas
1988
Tales for a Modern Age: Denise Brown, Frank Brown University of Texas Art Gallery, Dallas Texas
Critics Choice: D-Art Visual Arts Center, Dallas Texas
ArtQuest 88, Traveling Exhibition Hillwood Art Gallery Long Island, New York Beaver College Art Gallery, Glenside Pennsylvania University of California, Fine Arts Gallery, Irvine California
Recent Work: Frank Brown Alternate Gallery, Dallas Texas
Texas II: Invitational Exhibition San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco California
Florida National Exhibition: Florida State University Fine Arts Museum, Tallahassee Florida
1987
Artquest Traveling Exhibition Art Institute of Boston Massachusetts California University Art Gallery, Los Angeles California
Recent Work: Frank Brown, Denise Brown, Jack Robbins Alternate Gallery, Dallas Texas
For Love or Money Cameron University Art Gallery, Lawton Oklahoma
1986
Texas Annual: Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin Texas
Sound and Vision: Denise Brown, Frank Brown Austin Community College, Austin Texas
Denise Brown, Frank Brown 500X Gallery, Dallas Texas
1985
American Art 85 Small Gallery: Santa Fe New Mexico
Emerald City Classic Nepenthe Mundi Society, Wichita, Kansas
1984
El Paso International Painting Exhibition Fox Fine Art Center, El Paso Texas
Masters Thesis Exhibition New Mexico State University Gallery, Las Cruces New Mexico
1982
Ceramic Art Exhibition New Mexico State University Gallery, Las Cruces New Mexico
1981
Clyde Burt Memorial Exhibition University Art Space, Fort Wayne Indiana
1980
Conceptions Southwest University of New Mexico, Albuquerque New Mexico
PUBLICATIONS
Rees, Christina. “Absurdly Cool” The Met, September 10-17 1997
Mitchell, Dee. “Presenting Bleak Visions of the World” Dallas Morning News, May 27, 1995
Bates Edward. “Frank Brown: Edith Baker Gallery” Feb 1994
Kutner, Janet. “State of the World Art, Husband and Wife Portray their Concerns in Different Styles” Dallas Morning News Oct 6 1990
Mitchell, Dee. Frank Brown at Alternate Gallery, Artspace Magazine, Fall 1988
Tyson, Janet. “Still Life’s, City World, Bold and Humorous” Fort Worth Star Telegram, May 21, 1988
Vaal, “Art on View, Frank Brown: Alternate Gallery” Detour Magazine, Dallas Texas May 1988
Kutner, Janet. “Ideas from the Young at Art. Denise Brown, Frank Brown, Jack Robbins” Dallas Morning News, Feb 19, 1987
Texas Based Journal of Contemporary Art. “Frank Brown Edith Baker Gallery” Oct 31, 1993
New American Paintings Book, Frank Brown Open Studios Press, Needham Massachusetts. 1995
Artist Statement:
The foremost concern in my work has always been a search for subject matter. My dream like narratives are inspired by the world around me and indirectly from the world within me. As events in a dream can bear a symbolic, relationship to the waking world of the dreamer, the situations depicted in my paintings sometimes unconsciously reflect personal questions or concerns, events, emotions or discoveries that I am experiencing at the moment. Figures become actors on a stage, performing allegorical dramas inspired by the human condition, both personal and universal. The open ended narrative seeks to provoke a train of thought, inspiring a search for meaning, that left open, allows for personal interpretation.
