Andrew Brown

St. Louis born. Again, it's home. Sandwiched between, curious roots of creativity experientially nourished through time spent and breaths taken in deep cultural and social immersion living in The Megalopolis of Central Mexico, Merida on the Yucatan Peninsula, small town Iowa, and a handful of cities around the US Midwest. The many dialects of a language(music) we certainly all understand, branched into the exploration of motion through funkstyle dance. Combined, they formed a seemingly never-ending chase after an elusive attitude imperative to convey. Over time, pigments splashed into the mix, now a bit closer we are. Born into chaos, each piece ends in control. Archived in the mind, are files of periodic stages of (then) unrealized creative importance. The fully felt words of encouragement from Mom as shapes were actualized through the pen as a tool to execute newly realized intentional motor control, curiously studying Dad's intriguing shading techniques sketched on envelopes, an eye for composition, balance, and mood osmosed from years of Grandpa sharing wisdom and love of photography, the imaginative minds of the Corum family in Iowa, a handful of dear friends from the underground dance scene in St. Louis and around t...

2023 HeArt and Soul // Solo Exhibition // St. Louis, MO