YVETTE BROWN

EXHIBITIONS

Glass Garage Gallery/bG Gallery, "Grayscale Wonderland", Bergamot Station Arts Center, Santa Monica, CA, 2015
Jeff Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2014
Transmission Gallery, "Disconnect", Oakland, CA, 2014
Art Attack, San Francisco, CA, 2014
Triton Museum, California painters competition, honorable mention, 2013-14
ARC Gallery, "Choice", curator Catherine Clark, San Francisco, CA, 2013-14
Northern Exposure, 425 Market Street, San Francisco, CA, 2013
United Care Show, curator Chris Hambrick, Los Angeles, CA, 2012
Sylvia White Gallery, Collectors Choice, Ventura, CA, 2011
JK Gallery, Solo Show, Culver City, CA, 2008
Palos Verdes Arts Center, Three Person Show, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA, 2008
Long Beach Arts, "The Human Figure", juror Bob Alderette, Long Beach, CA, 2007
La Artcore Brewery Annex, "Courage", Los Angeles, CA, 2006
Arena One Gallery, "A Women's Place is�" Santa Monica, CA, 2006
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Leo S. Bing Center, Los Angeles, CA, 2005
Mar Vista Arts Guild, "Beginnings", Los Angeles, CA, 2005
Richard Kraft Gallery, "Caught", Los Angeles, CA, 2005
Los Angeles Municipal Gallery, "Open Call", Los Angeles, CA, 2004
Pacific Palisades Art Guild, "Garden Party", Pacific Palisades, CA, 2004
Don O'Melveny Gallery,"Abstract Elegante", West Hollywood, CA, 2004
Richard Kraft Gallery, "Eclectic", Los Angeles, CA, 2003
Don O'Melveny Gallery, "Small Wonders", West Hollywood, CA, 2003

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESS

Eye on LA, ABC TV, April 2006
Sow's Ear Poetry Review, March 2006
California Home and Design, July 2005
Abstract Elegante, September 2004

CORPORATE AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS

Arnold Worldwide, Santa Monica, CA
Levine, Neal, Bender, Brill and Rankin, Century City, CA
Mr. And Mrs. Les Traub, Beverly Hills, CA
Mr. And Mrs. Irwin Yablans, West Hollywood, CA
Dr. Peter Lu, Beverly Hills, CA
Audrey Wu, Los Angeles, CA
Body Reform, Beverly Hills, CA

EDUCATION

Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising, Associate of Arts

My work is about the deep psychological and physical responses people have to motion. I create images that tap into the rich, ambiguous territory that lies between our dreams of flying and our nightmares of falling.

My paintings hover somewhere along the invisible line of tension between awkwardness and grace. I strive to capture the frozen moment in which balance is either lost or regained. I tend to avoid faces because they give too much away. I want to leave more for the viewer to interpret. Is a figure filled with the elation of soaring? Or is there a violence bubbling just beneath the veneer of beauty? What are those secrets behind the beauty?

I often break my figures into multi-canvas constructions of varying depths in an attempt to contain aspects of the image, as a visual metaphor for the way that each of us tries to impose some kind of structure on the chaos of our lives. However, that structure, as hard-edged as we try to make it, is an illusion. It distorts the picture we present of ourselves in ways that can be both flattering and grotesque.

The truth is that, like the figures I paint, we are all bodies in motion, flowing around and over the rigid boundaries we try to erect. Containment is elusive. Control is an illusion.