Elliott Jerome Brown Jr.

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Elliott Jerome Brown Jr. (born 1993) [1] is a queer black American artist and photographer. In 2019 they received an Emerging Visual Arts Grant by The Rema Hort Mann Foundation. [2]

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Early life and education

In 2017, Brown graduated with a BFA from New York University [3] [4] at the Tisch School of Arts. They also attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2017. [4]

Work

Brown's work is inspired by Deana Lawson, Carrie Mae Weems, and Lorna Simpson. [3] Their work started with a focus on self portraiture to examine the complexities of gender and identity. [4] Brown's work speaks to the black queer body by using the intimacy of portraiture as a means to question preconceived notions of maleness and blackness. [5]

Brown has been commissioned by media outlets and fashion designers, including New York Magazine , [3] Gayletter Magazine, [3] The New Yorker , [6] [7] Vice , [8] Teen Vogue , Dazed , W Magazine , [9] [10] and Telfar Clemens. [11] Their work has been featured by W Magazine, [12] [13] Vice, [4] and The Fader . [3]

In 2017, Brown co-curated the seventh annual "Zine and Self-Published Photo Book Fair" with Devin N. Morris, titled Rock Paper Scissors and a Three-Armed Shovel. [14]

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions

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  2. 1 2 Greenberger, Alex (2019-09-30). "Eight New York Artists Win $10,000 Grants Through Closely Watched Rema Hort Mann Foundation Program". ARTnews.com. Retrieved 2020-06-27.
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  4. 1 2 3 4 Elliott Brown Jr; Carrie Mae Weems (2017-08-07). "Photos From Two Artists Who Approach Portraits in Very Different Ways". Vice. Retrieved 2020-06-27.
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  6. ↑ Pollack-Pelzner, Daniel (5 April 2018). "Quiara Alegría Hudes Rewrites the American Landscape". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2020-06-27.
  7. ↑ Als, Hilton (6 November 2017). "Acting Out in "People, Places, & Things"". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2020-06-27.
  8. ↑ Lawrence Burney; Elliott Jerome Brown Jr (2017-09-28). "The Stitched Up, Lo-Fi Torment of Deem Spencer". Vice. Retrieved 2020-06-27.
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