SCULPTURE
OTHER MISFITS 1993-94
1993 UC IRVINE THESIS SHOW
Brown’s MA thesis show examined how contemporary identities can shape shift based on what’s available to the consumer. Brown scavenged heaps of cheap Americana such as plastic toys, fruit, veg, jewels and feathers and assembled them into mutant misfits. These hybrids seem to have lost their footing and are free falling in a pseudo utopic reality, telling tales of disjointed, vacant pride as they straddle between two artificial worlds, the one they came from and the one they now inhabit. They sit atop small lit stages, adorned with their feather plumes, ready to confront the crowd asking “who here is real”?
1992 UC IRVINE MY DANDIES
In this arresting exhibition Brown used a colour Xerox process to enlarge six 19th century portraits of various handsome dandies. She attached various fetishised objects to the portrait surfaces, then painted her body and pressed herself against them leaving her mark. This brazen act of physically asserted her desire without consent mocks and mimics a more sinister side of sexuality where usually the female is the object of unwanted advances. Brown selected men of stature to redress the historic imbalance of power. In the centre of the room is an unmade single bed with a menacing pinecone phallus. The exhibition explores the complexity of female desire as well as an indictment of past discrimination.
1991 UC IRVINE
1990 - ST LOUIS DAYS
