Mountain View, CA, United States
Mark McAfee Brown is an Artist, Photographer and Designer working in the space where fine art and te...
About the artist
Joined In 2014
(16 Followers)
About the artist
Joined In 2014
(16 Followers)
Mark McAfee Brown is an Artist, Photographer and Designer working in the space where fine art and technology marry, merge and multiply. He has spent over 25 years combining traditional media and photography, and the last 20 years working digitally on Macintosh computer imaging systems, pushing pixels around for art, spirit, fun and profit, using a palate of 16.9 million colors, creating images by writing ones and zeroes on rust with magnets and lasers. Whoever imagined that Art could or would come to this? Born in New York City, he has lived in Minnesota, New England, West Virginia, Scotland and France. He is now a resident of the San Francisco Bay Area in California.
He received a B.A. in Art at Stanford University, a Master's Degree in Printmaking from San Francisco State University and has taken numerous courses in Graphic Design and Digital Media at The University of California at Santa Cruz and Foothill College, trying to stay just ahead of the cresting wave of technology. His art first appeared internationally in a gallery in India at age 5, as part of a world-touring show hosted by the United Nations. He took his first photo at age 6 (of an ostrich) at the Bronx Zoo. Since then his award-winning prints have been shown on ...
EDUCATION
B.A. Fine Arts: Stanford University. M.A. Printmaking: San Francisco State University
UC Santa Cruz/Foothill College: Coursework In Photography, Printmaking, Design & Digital Arts
ARTIST’S RESUME – MARK McAFEE BROWN
www.mbrownarts.com
EXHIBITIONS: ONE PERSON SHOWS
2106 • Landscapes (Woodless Woodcuts) Mountain View Performing Arts Gallery. Mountain View, CA
2105 • Landscapes (Woodless Woodcuts) Mill Valley City Hall Gallery. Mill Valley, CA
2015 • LandScapes (Woodless Woodcuts) Lobby Gallery. Santa Clara County Library, Saratoga, CA
2011 • NightBlooms/Leaflines. Stanford Art Spaces Gallery, Stanford, CA
2010 • NightBlooms/Leaflines. Lobby Gallery. Santa Clara County Library, Saratoga, CA
2008 • NightBlooms. Appel Gallery. Sacramento, CA
2007 • NightBlooms. Stanford Faculty Club Gallery. Stanford, CA
2007 • NightBlooms. Mountain View Center for Performing Arts Gallery. Mountain View, CA
2005 • NightBlooms. Vino Locale Gallery. Palo Alto. CA
2002 • NightBlooms. PARC Gallery. Palo Alto. CA
1989 • Montclair College Art Gallery. Montclair, New Jersey.
1980 • San Francisco State University. San Francisco, CA
EXHIBITIONS: GROUP SHOWS
2014 • Bay Area Wildlife • Filoli Estate Gallery • Woodside, CA
2014 • The Crow Show • Atelier 20 • Sacramento, CA
2014 • Water, Elemental and Fundamental • PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, Vermont
2013 • Moving Art Forward • Los Altos History Museum, Los Alto...
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