Selected Solo Exhibitions

2007"Mark Brown: Winterreise," 5ive & 40rty, Winston-Salem, NC
2007Wichita State University, solo exhibition of prints; digital images from the Winterreise series projected on a 14' screen during a performance of Schubert's Die Winterreise.
2005 - 06"Winterreise," National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, NC
2003"Mark Brown: New Paintings", HagerSmith Design Gallery, Raleigh, NC
1994Marita Gilliam Gallery, Raleigh, NC
1993"Die Grosse Nacht," Duke Institute of the Arts, Duke University, Durham, NC
1984Durham Arts Council, Durham, NC

Selected Group Exhibitions

2008Semans Gallery, Durham Arts Council, Durham, NC. Invitational Two-person
2007Somerhill Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC. Recent paintings: Mark Brown and Margaret White, Invitational
2007Somerhill Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC. Shapes of White
2007Somerhill Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC. things that are BLUE
2006Raleigh Fine Arts Society Juried Exhibition, Meredith College, Raleigh, NC, First Prize. Juror - Alison De Lima Greene, Curator of Contemporary Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
2006"Order(ed)", Gallery Siano, Philadelphia, PA. Curated by Julie Karabenick
2001"Other Worlds", The Painting Center, New York, NY
1994E. S. Vandam Gallery, New York, NY. Three Person
1994"New Art," Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, NC. Juror - Katy Kline, Director, Bowdoin Museum of Art. Brunswick, ME
1993Triennial North Carolina Artists Exhibition, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC. Juror - Michael Auping, Director, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
1993"Art on a Small Scale," Lee Hansley Gallery, Raleigh, NC
1992"Temporal Surfaces-Six Abstract Painters," Davidson College Gallery of Art, Davidson, NC
1984Triennial North Carolina Artists Exhibition, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC. Juror - Howard Fox, Curator of Contemporary Art, LACMA
1983Southeast Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC

Awards / Residencies

2007EAG Project Grant, Durham, NC Arts Council
2006Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT. Artist Grant
2006First Prize, Raleigh Fine Arts Society Juried Exhibition, Raleigh, NC
1992National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Finalist - Painting
1991EAG Project Grant, Durham, NC Arts Council
1984Kent State University Summer Art Program, Kent, OH, Full Scholarship
1983Smith Fund Research Grant, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
1981Fifth Annual Juried Exhibition, Bernhardt Industries, Lenoir, NC, Purchase Award

Selected Publications / Reviews

  • The Blotter, cover art and centerfold, October 2007
  • Dougherty, Linda Johnson. "ART", The Spectator, December 6, 1995
  • Dougherty, Linda Johnson, "Abstraction and Representation," The Spectator, January 20, 1994
  • Fabbri, Anna. Art Matters, June, 2006
  • Fallon, Roberta. "Beauty, Order and Originality," ORDER(ED) Exhibition Catalog, 2006
  • "Five [NC] Visual Artists You Should Know", Raleigh News & Observer, June 10, 2006
  • Genetics in Medicine, cover art, December 2007
  • Greenburg, Blue. "Blue Is the Perfect Gambit," Durham Herald-Sun, January 27, 2007
  • Greenburg, Blue. "Art," Durham Herald-Sun, December 10, 1995
  • Greenburg, Blue. "Mark Brown, Margaret White: Recent Paintings" Durham Herald-Sun, October 31, 2007
  • Karabenick, Julie. Featured Interview with Mark Brown, geoform.net, February, 2006
  • Kline, Katy. "New Art," Duke University Museum of Art, Exhibition Catalog, 1994
  • Natale, Michele. "Mark Brown's Winterreise," Raleigh News & Observer, January 8, 2006
  • Natale, Michele, "Art Picks", Raleigh News & Observer, November 9, 2007
  • Newhall, Edith. "Creative Styles of Their Own'", Philadelphia Enquirer, May 26, 2006
  • Paschal, Huston. "North Carolina Artists Exhibition 1993," Exhibition Catalog, NC Museum of Art
  • Patterson, Tom. "The Shades of Winter", Winston-Salem Journal, March 16, 2007
  • Pinchbeck, Peter. "Temporal Surfaces," Exhibition Catalog, Davidson College Gallery of Art, 1992
  • Rossof, Libby. ORDER(ed), artblog, May 17, 2006
  • Triangle Business Journal Book of Lists, Cover Art, 1993-94
  • Walentiny, Joseph. "Other Worlds," Exhibition Statement, The Painting Center, May 2001
  • Walentiny, Joseph. Artist Profile, abartonline.com, February, 2000
  • Wasserman, Janet. "Schubert's Winterreise", Exhibition Statement, National Humanities Center, 2005

Education

MFAUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Thesis Chair - Peter Plagens
BAUniversity of Kentucky
 The Thursday Group, critique group with George Bireline and others
 Studio Assistant to Herb Jackson, Chairman, Art Department, Davidson College
 Studio Assistant to Gerald Ferstman, Art Professor, University of Kentucky

Teaching / Professional

2007Freelance art preparator, Nasher Museum, Duke University, Durham, NC.
2004Digital imaging volunteer, Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC.
1997Visiting Lecturer, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
1995Master of Fine Arts Candidates Critique Panel, UNC - Chapel Hill
1982-83Teaching Assistantships, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
1981Designed and taught course in two-dimensional abstraction
Rowan Technical College / Waterworks Gallery, Salisbury, NC
1979Visiting Lecturer, Kentucky State University, Frankfort, KY

Public / Corporate Collections

Bernhardt Industries, Lenoir, NCNITROX, Durham, NC, commission
Glencore Ltd., Stamford, CTSEER Technologies, Cary, NC
Medco Research, Research Triangle Park, NCSidley, Austin, Brown & Wood, New York, NY
Neiman Marcus permanent collection, commissionWastek, Inc., Liberty, NC

Representation

Barkin-Leeds Ltd.Dorothy Goldeen5ive & 40rtyJudith SelkowitzFlanders Gallery
Atlanta, GASanta Monica, CAWinston-Salem, NCNew York, NYRaleigh, NC
Studio by appointment, 919 968 8495