Christopher Brown

Christopher Brown (born 1951), is an American artist and educator. He is known for his paintings and prints, often figurative and feature abstract settings with repeating patterns or shapes. He taught at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1981 to 1994. Brown has also worked as an adjunct professor at the California College of the Arts. Brown's work is associated with Neo‐expressionism. Early life and education Christopher Brown was born in 1951 at the United States Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune in Jacksonville, North Carolina. His father was a doctor. He was raised in Warren, Ohio and in Urbana, Illinois. Brown attended the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where he received a B.A. degree in 1973; followed by a M.F.A. degree in 1976 from the University of California, Davis (U.C. Davis). At U.C. Davis during his graduate studies, he was a student of Wayne Thiebaud, William T. Wiley, and Roy De Forest. Career Many of Brown's large scale painting works are painted from memory and he sometimes uses photographs for reference. He creates collage-like arrangements within his paintings, which feature figurative images in surrealistic juxtapositions. It is common to also see repeating patterns or shapes within the painting background.