Critical Essays

2022

Jeff Noonan, “Destroy All Monsters: Brown’s Middle Period (1989-2002).”

Jeff Noonan, “Heads, No Faces: Human Heads Series (1989-2003).

2021

Marc DeGuerre, “I’ll be Your Mirror.

Jeff Noonan, “Ground and Figure in the Early Drawings of John Brown.”

2020

Matthew Budden, “The Embodiment of Paint: Notes on John Brown’s Approach to Painting.”

2010

Dagmar Dahle, “Painting John Brown Painting,” Ars Medica, Vol. 6, No.2, Spring, 2010, pp.45-50.

2008

John Bentley Mays, “Answers, A Fiction.” John Brown: The Visceral Thing, (Toronto: Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art), 2008.

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2006

Dault, Gary Michael, Grace and Travail: The Paintings of John Brown at Olga Korper Gallery, dArt International, Fall, 2006.

2005

Janisse, Matthew, “John Brown.” (Essay written for Andy Fabo’s class on Contemporary painting, Toronto School of Art, 2005).

1997

Wood, Kay, “The Texture of a Collection: Selections From the Permanent Collection,” (Oakville: Oakville Galleries Booklets).

1988

Grosman, Penny-Lynn, “Figurative Force,” (Stratford: The Gallery/Stratford).

1984

Burnet, David, Toronto Painting, 1984 (Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario).