Betty Brownlee Bio 2020
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Betty Brownlee, MFA 933 Calumet Street, Detroit, MI 48201 TEL 313-570-8755 EMAIL [email protected] SOLO EXHIBITIONS: 2018 “Hindsight 2018: Betty Brownlee, A Retrospective”, Annex Gallery, Highland Park, MI 2015 “Very Current Work”,Annex Gallery, Highland Park, MI 2012 ”Betty Brownlee: Works on Exhibit”, Detroit Repertory Theatre, Highland Park, MI 1995 “Paintings”, Otherwise Gallery, Lansing, MI 1993 “Paintings: 1985-1992”, Detroit News Building, Detroit, MI 1983 “Landscapes”, Feigenson Gallery, Detroit, MI SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS: 2020 “Dual Visions”, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit MI “Natural/Automatic”, Janice Charach Gallery, West Bloomfield, MI 2019 “I’m with the Band”, The Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI 2018 “Big Highland Park Show”, Annex Gallery, Highland Park, MI “Women Strong”, Ellen Kayrod Gallery, Detroit 2017 “Revolted”, Annex Gallery, Highland Park, MI “Local Perspectives, Global Reach”, Mercedes-Benz Research & Development North America, Inc. Redford, MI 2016 “Big Sculpture”, Annex Gallery, Highland Park, MI “Local Perspectives, Global Reach”, Mercedes-Benz Research & Development North America, Inc. Redford, MI 2015 “Midland August”, Annex Gallery, Highland Park, MI “Local Perspectives, Global Reach”, Mercedes-Benz Research & Development North America, Inc. Redford, MI 2014 “Big Paintings”, Annex Gallery, Highland Park, MI “Knowing” Wayne County Community College, Taylor, MI 2013 “Betty Brownlee, Nancy Mitchnick, Shirley Parish”, Ellen Kayrod Gallery, Detroit 2012 “The Detroit Artists Market: The First 80 Years”, The Detroit Historical Museum, Detroit, MI 2010 “Robert Wilbert: teacher, mentor, friend”, Scarab Club, Detroit, MI 2008 “With Regards”, (2-person show with Tricia Soderberg), Bohemian National Home Gallery, Detroit, MI 2006 “Michigan Now II”, Michigan Institute of Arts, Pontiac, MI 2000 “Canvas”, Alley Culture, Detroit, MI 1997 “Goddesses”, Center Galleries, Center for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI 1996 “The New Regionalism”, (touring exhibit), Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI “Paintings”, Start Gallery, Birmingham, MI 1995 “Fire”, Michigan Gallery, Detroit, MI 1994 “Once Upon a Time...Happily Ever After”, Michigan Opera Theatre, Southfield, MI “The Detroit Show: Objects for and about Detroit”, Center Galleries, Detroit, MI 1992 “Expressive Visions and Exquisite Images”, Meadow Brook Art Gallery, Rochester “Paintings: Betty Brownlee and Kris Love”, Willis Gallery, Detroit, MI 1991 “Visual Potpourri”, Kresge Art Museum, East Lansing, MI 1990 “Art Poetry Melodrama: 20 Years of the Alternative Press”, Detroit Institute of Arts 1988 “Midwest Landscape: Part 1”, Joy Emery Gallery, Grosse Pointe, MI 1987 “BYE: The Final Show”, Feigenson Gallery, Detroit, MI 1986 “Update: Detroit Artists”, Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI 1982 “Atlas Building Group Show”, Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI 1981 “Landscapes: Interior & Exterior”, Detroit Focus Gallery, Detroit, MI BIBLIOGRAPHY: DeValle, Robert, Real Detroit Weekly, June 11, 2008 Cohen, Keri Guten, The Detroit Free Press, October 5, 1997 Colby, Joy Hakanson, The Detroit News, September, 25, 1997 Hall, Michael D., The New Regionalism, Exhibition Catalog, 1997 Cavell, Leslie, Capital Times, July 1994 Natinsky, Eli, The State News, June 8, 1994 Miro, Marsha, The Detroit Free Press, December 7, 1993 Givhan, Robin, The Detroit Free Press, June 7, 1993 Miro, Marsha, The Detroit Free Press, June 28, 1992 Derbeck, Jeanne, South Bend Tribune, April 8, 1990 Miro, Marsha, The Detroit Free Press, September 9, 1988 Miro, Marsha, The Detroit Free Press, March 13 1988 Colby, Joy Hakanson, The Detroit News, March 4 1988 Colby, Joy Hakanson, The Detroit News, February 16, 1986 Miro, Marsha, The Detroit Free Press, February 16, 1986 Colby, Joy Hakanson, The Detroit News, August 12, 1984 Colby, Joy Hakanson, The Detroit News, February 27, 1983 Miro, Marsha, The Detroit Free Press, June 13, 1982 Miro, Marsha, The Detroit Free Press, July 26, 1981 Miro, Marsha, The Detroit Free Press, November 9, 1980 SELECTED COLLECTIONS: AT&T DTE Energy Charles Anderson III David Holtzman David Mikesell Marsha Miro AWARDS AND HONORS: 1993 -1995 Graduate Teaching Fellowship, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 1992 Graduate Professional Scholarship, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 1990 Michigan Council for the Arts, Creative Artist Grant Recipient ($10,000.) 1988 Purchase Award, Holland Area Arts Council, Holland, MI 1987 Michigan Council for the Arts, Creative Artist Grant Finalist 1983 Marji Kunz Design Scholarship, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI PUBLISHED ARTIST STATEMENTS: 2016 “Big Sculpture”, 333 Midland, Highland Park, MI 2015 - 2017 “Local Perspectives, Global Reach”, Mercedes-Benz Research & Development North America, Inc., Redford, MI 1996 “The New Regionalism”, Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI 1988 “Midwest Landscape: Part 1”, Joy Emery Gallery, Grosse Pointe, MI.