Aleathia Brown

My artwork is a visual language expressing my power, strength, and vulnerabilities!

Art I make because it calls me like a craving...I see beauty in visuals everywhere. I tell story with my art to open a dialogue with my viewing audience as well as to cleanse personal experiences. When I tell my story it is infectious because someone is always inspired to confess their experiences with me. I find that when I layer textures or mix mediums I am a scientist. Experimenting with mediums and visual images provokes reactions causing people to open up a dialogue. This is important to me. It bridges the gap of human endurance and fosters warmth and empathy. In my visual journey texture, color and bold shape are as necessary as the elements to nature. Alluring, meditative, spirit-full and movement are just a few ways to describe the feeling conveyed in the body of my artwork. Music, dance and poetry not only motivate me to create, each one uplifts and metamorphosis’s my soul. I translate these emotions into visual experiences. I use both found objects as well as bought materials. To use what is already in existence along with what is raw (unused) is a challenge as well as a way to recycle. Art is what heals pain and reveals triumph. Sharing my gift with the world is my contribution to humanity!

ALEATHIA BROWN attended the School of Visual Arts where she earned A BFA in Art Education and Advertising with a minor in Graphic Design. She is a Native New Yorker, who works extensively with youth organizations and senior citizen programs with the Visual Arts.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
THE CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK, CITIBANK, THE SOUL CAFE, WHITNEY AND WEST LAS VEGAS LIBRARIES.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
LUCENT TECHNOLOGY, THE NATIONAL AFRICAN AMERICAN FINE ART SHOW (LAS VEGAS)
THE LEROY NEIMAN GALLERY COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
THE BOROUGH PRESIDENT’S GALLERY at THE BRONX COUNTY BLDG. RIVERSIDE CHURCH THEATER

PUBLICATIONS
THE DAILY NEWS, THE NEW YORK TIMES, IMAGES MAGAZINE VOLUME 4. NO.1, LAS VEGAS WEEKLY (visual artist of the week) THE NEW YORK RESIDENT, THE NEW YORK BEACON NEWSPAPER, AND THE DAILY CHALLENGE

TELEVISION
UPN NEWS, NBC’S POSITIVELY BLACK, EYEWITNESS NEWS (LAS VEGAS), BLACKWASH TELEVISION (BRONXNET), BLACK ARTS & CULTURE USA, CHANNELLIVETV.COM

COMMISSIONS
2002 artwork for North General Hospital’s
NATIONAL CONFERENCE FOR PALLIATIVE CARE; 2003 Book cover design for PALLIATIVE TRAINING AND EDUCATION PROGRAM FOR CAREGIVERS IN MINORITY COMMUNITIES.

AWARDS
Honorary member of PHI THETA KAPPA for her artistic contributions. Artist of the year with ZETA PHI BETA. Award of appreciation with WEST LAS VEGAS YOUNG PEOPLES LIBRARY, INTERGENERATIONAL FORUM WITH THE METROPOLITAN JACK AND JILL ALUMNI/HARLEM DOWLING. CITATION OF MERIT for cultural excellence BRONX BOROUGH PRESIDENT for the NORWOOD ARTIST COLLECTIVE, an individual CITATION OF MERIT awarded & presented by Adolfo Carrion Bronx Borough President for Cultural Excellence.

HER BOLD STRIKING IMAGES OF FAMILY STRUCTURE AND HARMONY ARE MOST NOTABLE AND VERY IMPORTANT TO THE DOCUMENTATION OF COMMUNITY AND CULTURE FOR HISTORY; RECENT WORKS INCLUDE PAINTING LIVE TO MUSIC & POETRY PERFORMANCES.