HENRY BROWN

Henry F. Brown was born and raised in New York City, a love of nature and outer space soon followed. He graduated from Kenyon College in 2007 and earned his Masters Degree in Printmaking at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in 2015. He cofounded Overpass Projects – a traditional fine art print publisher in Providence, RI whose work has been collected by institutions such as the Davison Art Center at Wesleyan University, the Davis Museum at Wellesley College, and the New York Public Library. He is currently teaching in the Printmaking Department at RISD and codirector of Salad Editions, an experimental fine art publisher with studios in Brooklyn, NY and Providence, RI.

“I bring 19th century techniques together with 21st century concepts in order to explore the virtual and psychological spaces we inhabit. I explore the lineage of Western landscape aesthetics and find those concepts and compositional techniques present in fantasy-based RPG video games. Each print is an image of an original screencapture taken while playing a variety of first-person role playing games on PC. I seek to create spaces that engage the viewer in a reciprocating process of entering the image plane while simultaneously confronting the materials and illusions that construct it.”

Detail of HUD_GIF_02, HUD_JPG_03, 2019, Photopolymer intaglio

--Henry Brown