I have updated the solo exhibition page. It now lists all the work exhibited by Brown in his solo shows at the Lamanna and Korper Galleries. The only missing information is for his 1993 show at the Costin Klintworth Gallery, his only show there before he moved to Olga Korper. Frustratingly, I remember attending the show, but I cannot recall the works he exhibited there. I am hoping that the papers still in his studio contain the missing information.
I continue to follow up leads on some of the earlier group exhibitions in which Brown participated. Except for his earliest shows, he tended not to exhibit new work in group shows. Thus, the information contained in the exhibition history of solo shows now provides a nearly complete record of Brown’s major works.
The catalogue of Brown’s work now presents as complete a photographic record of his paintings as I can build with extent material. I have replaced thumbnails with fuller sized photos and will continue to replace blurry images with higher resolution pictures. Three significant gaps remain: I lack photographs for a number of paintings form the Grimm and Ping series, and have no photographs at all (or even any personal recollection) of the Mouth series, shown at Olga Korper in 1995. Since Brown not infrequently painted over works with which he was not happy, I do not know for certain whether the missing Grimm paintings exist. I will continue to search for photographic records of the missing material.
I have added a number of paintings and drawings to the Ephemera section. For any veterans of the Queen West music scene from the early 1980’s, I have added .mp4s of a live performance of Brown’s band Rongwrong live at the Woodshed, Guelph, ON, from Oct. 30th 1982. Play it loud or don’t bother playing it at all!