Galen Brown resume
BORN
1959 in Reno, Nevada.
Raised in Reno NV. And Kings Beach, Lake Tahoe CA. Currently living in Carson City Nevada
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2008 Waves: Line and Rhythm. One man show, Carson City Courthouse, CCAI Gallery
2007 WNCC Drawings
1998 City of Oakland Neighborhood Windows Project Swing installation
1998 Simple Pleasures, Group Show. Traywick Gallery.
1997 Christmas Group Show, Bedford Gallery
1997 Inaugural Group Show, Traywick Gallery
1997 Discard Secession Gallery, Catharine Clark Gallery
1996 Southern Exposure's Sixth Annual Juried Exhibition: Confess. Juror: Thelma Golden, Associate Curator, and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1996 Discard Secession Gallery, Catharine Clark Gallery
1995 The Frame Show, Palo Alto Cultural Center Invitational
1994 Invitational Book Show, Palo Alto Cultural Center
1990 Masters of Fine Art Exhibition, SF Fort Mason Center
1989 College Art Association Graduate Group Show, San Francisco State University
1984-1989 Spring Show, San Francisco Art Institute
1986 Visiting Student Group Show, Zhejiang Academy of Fine Art, Hanzhou, Peoples Republic of China
1986 Selected Undergraduate Drawings Group Show, Osaka, Japan
EDUCATION
2006-07 Fall / Spring WNCC Print Making
2005 TMCC Monotype Workshop
2005 Summer workshop Crown Point Press Print Making
1993 Summer Workshop Crown Point Press, Printmaking
1990 San Francisco Art Institute, MFA. Painting
1988 San Francisco Art Institute, BFA. Painting
1986 Associated Colleges of Art Studio Program, New York City, N.Y
1986 Zhejiang Academy of Fine Art, Hangzhou, Peoples Republic of China Summer
1980 Phoenix Institute of Technology, Advanced Architectural Drafting, Design & Engineering
1979 Phoenix Institute of Technology, Architectural Drafting
SPECIAL PROJECTS
1999 – continuing, straight line drawings waves pencil on museum board
1997- continuing, Stump pencil Circles on mat board mounted on panels
1988-1995 No project, installation of written NO'S
1991 continuing, installation inverted Xmas Trees
1989 continuing, installation Blocks made of various materials from my life
1994 continuing, accumulated Used Sandpaper Sculpture
1991-1994 construction of Stairs from plywood shop scraps
TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TO WORKING ARTISTS
2008 - 1987 ongoing Owner Dry Ice Framing Stretcher-bar and Panel Maker, former Picture Framer
1996 Kim Anno - fabrication of shaped art supports for paintings
1995 Installation Assistant and Fabricator, Reiko Goto, LATENT AUGUST, The Legacy of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, San Francisco
1993 Fabricator, Reiko Goto, Oakland Public Library
1993 Su Chen Hong - shaping of wood balancing beam, exhibition at Hains Gallery
Gigi Janging - construction assistant during installation at Hains Gallery
1992 Tom Marioni - ongoing fabrication of parts for Installations
Gigi Janging. Welding and construction of chairs for MFA exhibition, SFAI