About Lynne Margaret Brown
Through the use or incorporation of sound, video, text, photography, drawing, mixed media, printmaking and sited constructions. Lynne’s work aims to question society, knowledge and learning, body and mind and cultural agency. As an interdisciplinary artist her work engages with contemporary and historic research regarding identity, anti-identity, socio-political aesthetics and "aesthetic action".
Full Bio
Lynne is a visual artist, academic, editor and community program manager currently working and living between New York City and Berlin. Raised in Flushing, Queens, NYC she was a student in the New York City public school system which greatly influenced and supported her development in the visual and performing arts. Following high school Lynne attended Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts where she received a bachelor’s degree in visual arts, minoring in dance. After graduation Lynne held the position of gallery assistant at the Queensborough Community College Art gallery in Bayside, NY and then as personal archivist for the neo-realist artist Arman in his home and studio in Tribeca, New York City. While working she continued her education, receiving a master’s degree with license and teaching certification in art and art education from Teachers College Columbia University. Following several years of teaching K-12 art and art and art education at both Kean and William Paterson University, Lynne went on to receive an additional master’s degree in studio art through New York University study abroad in Venice and Berlin. Post-graduation Lynne obtained a summer certificate through the Transart Institute in Berlin. Most recently Lynne received an MPhil with all doctoral studies complete in the philosophy of aesthetics and art theory at the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts. After graduation Lynne began the position of artist in residency program manager and assistant curator at Diskurs Berlin art project space.
Wishing to continue her research in aesthetic philosophy and art theory with the desire to incorporate her teaching and education experience she has currently moved into the philosophical based field of expressive arts therapy. As of September 2021, she is an expressive arts therapy (ExaT) trainee and second-year student at Exa Berlin, a program that works collaboratively with EGS, the European Graduate School, where she will continue her academic studies.
Lynne has won a residency in multimedia art at Arts@Renaissance, Brooklyn, NY, scholarship in the visual arts and travel study through the National Gallery Art and Museum School NY (presently the New York School of the Arts), a fellowship and solo exhibition in printmaking at the Internazionale Scuola di Grafica in Venice as well a residency and solo exhibition for a community visual arts / film project through the Berlin Collective and kulturspace in Berlin.
Lynne works as a fine artist, program manager, art educator, lecturer, editor, administrator, and community safety worker. Her drawings, mixed media, sculpture, film, photographs, and video works have been exhibited in New York, NY, Venice, Italy, Berlin, Germany and L’Isle D’Abeau France.