Laurie Halsey Brown

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Laurie Halsey Brown is an American artist and curator based in San Francisco.[1] Best known for her collaborative projects incorporating urban landscapes, Brown founded, in 2008, the artistic laboratory senseofplace LAB.[2][3]

Brown earned an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts,[4] studied psychology in New York, and worked in Rotterdam for five years. She taught a course of her own design, “Interdisciplinary Media and Contemporary Society”, at The New School from 2000 to 2012. She has lived in San Francisco since 2007.[3]

Work

Brown was one of 15 artists that were part of a residency program, sponsored by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, located in Tower 1 of the

New Museum of Contemporary Art. Brown re-used material from her original project and, wrote New York Times critic Holland Cotter, produced "something very different in tone and meaning. Using bits from a film about the ubiquitous security surveillance at the trade center, she has simulated the panoramic view she saw daily from her Tower 1 studio windows: New York Harbor with the Statue of Liberty to the south, Tower 2 to the southeast."[5] The work incorporated footage she had taken the day before the attacks.[6]

While living in Rotterdam, Brown created a webcast and poster addressing controversies over squatting in the Netherlands. Brown's series, Honoring Japan's 'sense of place', includes a triptych that combines a textile with photograph of a crowded intersection that echos the cloth's colors and grid. Another work, also employing juxtaposition of two mediums, combines a photo of people sitting over a canal two abstract watercolors. "When I'm in a place", she was quoted in SFWeekly, "it's not just seeing one thing—it's a layering of different things, with lots of different elements."[6]

In October 2013, Brown invited four artists, Jeff Hantman, Alicia Escott, Brian King and Githinji Mbire, to create works using debris dumped illegally on the streets of

found objects, a truck tire, leather couch, and jawbone from an unidentified rodent.[7][8]

References

  1. ^ "Laurie Halsey Brown". International Film Festival Rotterdam. Retrieved February 1, 2014.
  2. ^ "senseofplace LAB". Retrieved 1 February 2014.
  3. ^ a b "senseofplace LAB: About". senseofplace LAB. Retrieved 1 February 2014.
  4. ^ "Laurie Halsey Brown". Saatchi Art. Retrieved 11 June 2021.
  5. ^ Cotter, Holland (December 3, 2001). "ART REVIEW; The Studios Were Lost, But the Artists Get Their Day". The New York Times.
  6. ^ a b Curiel, Jonathon (February 8, 2013). "Masterminds 2012: Honoring 10 Extraordinary Bay Area artists". SFWeekly.
  7. ^ "Illegally Dumped Junk in Oakland Becomes Art". The Bold Italic. Archived from the original on 3 February 2014. Retrieved 1 February 2014.
  8. ^ "Oakland Artists Look To Turn Trash Into Treasure". CBS San Francisco. Retrieved 1 February 2014.

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