James Brown
1951–2020

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James Brown (September 11, 1951 – February 22, 2020) was an American-born painter active in Paris and Oaxaca, Mexico. He was most well known in the 1980s for his rough painterly semi-figurative paintings, bearing affinities to Jean-Michel Basquiat and East Village painting of the time, but with influences from primitive art and classical Western modernism.

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Introduction

American-born, Mexico-based painter and sculptor died at age sixty-eight in 2020 after a car crash in Mexico. His wife Alexandra Condon, with whom Brown ran the Oaxaca-based publishing house Carpe Diem Books, died as well in the crash. He attended the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, and moved to New York in 1979 and began his career with Leo Castelli and Shafrazi Gallery. In 1995, Brown moved with his family to Oaxaca, Mexico, and five years later established the Carpe Diem Press.

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United States

Roles

Artist, book artist, painter, publisher, sculptor

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500015600

Names

James Brown, James III Brown, II James Brown

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1951–2020