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210 eleventh avenue, ste 201 new york, ny 10001 t 212 226 3768 f 212 226 0155 CAVIN-MORRIS GALLERY e [email protected] www.cavinmorris.com EVERALD BROWN (born 1917 in Clarendon, Jamaica; died 2003 in Brooklyn,! NY) A carpenter by trade, Brown began painting and carving in the late 1960’s while living in Kingston. At this time Brown, who was a self-ordained priest of a sect related to the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, was inspired by a vision to decorate a small church he had built. In addition to adorning the church with his paintings, he also carved ceremonial objects for it. These first works were very well received not only by his own congregation, but by other visitors. This encouraged Brown to continue painting and carving. He began participating in exhibitions and in the early 1970’s received several awards for his work. Because of the close connection between Brown’s artistic and spiritual life, his imagery drew heavily upon his spiritual experiences (including his interest in Rastafarianism), and his visions. In the early 1970’s Brown left Kingston to move to the country with his family. They settled in the remote district of Murray Mountain, the hills near St. Ann. Here on a limestone hill, named Meditation Heights, Brown built a house. The early years on Murray Mountain were especially productive and Brown produced many works, including the first of his highly decorative musical instruments (the drums, dove harps and star banjoes). Since then Brown has continued to live and work in his private sanctuary on Murray Mountain, inspired by nature and his mystical !visions. !From Black Art Ancestral Legacy, 1989 ! !MONOGRAPHS AND SOLO EXHIBITIONS: 2004 Kingston (Jamaica). National Gallery of Jamaica. The Rainbow Valley: EVERALD BROWN: A Retrospective. ! Solo exhibition commemorating a lifetime of work. 1986 Ocho Rios (Jamaica). Harmony Hall. EVERALD BROWN. ! Solo exhibition. 1983 Kingston (Jamaica). Creative Arts Centre, University of West Indies. EVERALD BROWN. ! Solo exhibition. 1977 KINGSTON (Jamaica). Everald Brown and Clinton Brown. ! Two-person exhibition. Father and son. 1972 Kingston (Jamaica). Olympia International Art Centre. EVERALD BROWN. ! Solo exhibition. ! !GROUP EXHIBITIONS: 2015 NEW YORK (NY). Cavin-Morris Gallery. EVERALD BROWN Vodun, Vodou, Conjure: Animistic Arts of the African Diaspora. ! March 26 - May 2, 2015. 2014 GRAND CAYMAN (CAYMAN ISLANDS). NATIONAL GALLERY OF THE CAYMEN ISLANDS. Jamaican Art 1960s &1970s ! March 21 - May 15, 2014 2013 KINGSTON (Jamaica). National Gallery of Jamaica. Natural Histories. April 28-June 30, 2013. Group exhibition. Margaret Chen’s Step Series, John Dunkley’s Back to Nature, Everald Brown’s Duppy Cotton Tree, Eugene Hyde's From the Croton Series (1974), Oneika Russell’s A Natural History 4, Hope Brooks’ Slavery Trilogy, Cecil Baugh’s Egyptian Blue, and Jasmine Thomas-Girvan’s ! Alchemy of Memory. WASHINGTON (DC). Fondo del Sol Visual Arts Center. Under the Curtains of Heaven. Group exhibition of Jamaican political art. Included: Michael Auld, Eglon Daley, Woody Joseph and ! Everald Brown. 2012 MIAMI (FL). The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, Florida International University. Jamaican Intuitive Artists: Storytellers and Visionaries. April 25-September 16, 2012. Group exhibition drawn from the Frost collection. Included: Delores Anglin, Leroy Atherton, Erroll Lloyd Atherton, Vincent Atherton, Tony Bag, Everald Brown, Evadney Cruickshank, Leonard Daley, Ras Dizzy, William (Woody) Joseph, William Joseph, Jr., Errol McKenzie, Henry Simms, Sylvester ! Woods. 2010 WASHINGTON (DC). Art Museum of the Americas. 50 Years, 50 Works, 100th Anniversary. February 16-March 31, 2010. ! Group exhibition. Included: Everald Brown, Joseph Jean-Gilles, Wifredo Lam and René Portocarrero. 2009 WASHINGTON (DC). Inter-American Development Bank Cultural Center. 50 Years, 50 Works: The Art of Latin America and the Caribbean in the 20th Century. June 15-August 14, 2009. ! Group exhibition. Included: Joseph Jean-Gilles (Haiti) and Everald Brown (Jamaica.) 2007 KINGSTON (Jamaica). Museums of History and Ethnography and the National Gallery of Jamaica. Materializing Slavery: Art, Artifact, Memory and Identity. September 16-December 31, 2007. Group exhibition. Curated by Wayne Modest and David Boxer. Parts one and two of the exhibition, titled Materializing Slavery and Art, Memory and Identity were mounted at the IOJ and included objects such as implements of torture, logs of the enslaved, ceramics to commemorate Emancipation as well as installation/performance works by leading Jamaican artists. Included: David Boxer, Camille Chedda, Laura Facey, Lawrence Graham-Brown, Christopher Irons, Kapo, Edna Manley, David Miller, Ronald C. Moody, Leonard Morris, Petrona Morrison, Michael L. Parchment, Khalfani Ra, Oneika Russell, Oya Toehimba,. A separate exhibition at the Institute of Jamaica Galleries: FRED WILSON: An Account of a Voyage to Jamaica with the Unnatural History of That Place (SEE EVERALD BROWN separate entry.) And lastly The National Gallery will host Iconographic Reconstruction: The Black Image 1900-1980 and Art, Memory and Identity II, parts three and four of the exhibition. Iconographic Reconstruction included: Marvin Bartley, Christopher Clare, Renée Cox, Laura Facey, ! Petrona Morrison, among others WASHINGTON (DC). Cultural Center of the Inter-American Development Bank. Outstanding Works by Artists from the Spanish, English, French and Dutch Speaking Caribbean. Group exhibition of 39 works. Included: Gabriel Alix, Carlos Alfonzo, Gesner Armand, Gesner Armand, Castera Bazile, Rigaud Bénoit, Wilson Bigaud, Slinton Brown, Everald Brown, Dieudonné Cédor, Jacques-Enguerrand Gourgue, Gabriel Lévêque, Georges Liautaud, Brent Malone, Pétion ! Savain, Maxwell Taylor, Denis Vergin. 2002 NEW YORK (NY). Cavin-Morris Gallery. Curtains of Heaven: New Works by Jamaican Self-Taught Artists. ! Group exhibition. Included: Leonard Daley, Everald Brown. NEW YORK (NY). Skoto Gallery. Fifteen Jamaican Artists. January 26-March 2, 2002. Group exhibition. Included: Albert Chong, Donnette A. Cooper, Evadney Cruickshank, Ras Dizzy, Kofi Kayiga, Peter Wayne Lewis, Bryan McFarlane, Beverley Oliver, Michael Parchment, Arthur Simms, ! Stanford Watson, Sylvester Woods. 2000 KINGSTON (Jamaica). National Gallery of Jamaica. Annual National Exhibition 2000. December, 2000-February, 2001. Group exhibition. Included: David Boxer, Everald Brown, Natalie Butler, Cecil Cooper, Laura Facey Cooper, Christopher Gonzalez, Khepera Oluyia Hatsheptwa, Michael Parchment, Gene Pearson, Roy Reid, Stafford Schliefer, Cecil Ward, Donnette Zacca. Special section honoring Musgrave Medal recipients: Barrington Watson (gold), Petrona Morrison (silver) and John "Doc" Williamson (bronze). [Review: Dennis Coke, "Little Excitement at National Exhibition," Jamaica Gleaner," December 31, ! 2000.] 1999 KINGSTON (Jamaica). Mutual Life Gallery. Prophets and Messengers: Jamaican Intuitives: Works of the Self-Taught Artists of Jamaica, The Wayne and Myrene Cox Collection. ! Group exhibition. Included: Everald Brown, William (Woody) Joseph, et al. LONDON (UK). South London Gallery and Ipswich Gallery. The Elders: Stanley Greaves and Everard Brown. ! Two-person exhibition of paintings by Greaves (Guyana/Barbados) and Brown (Jamaica). 1997 NEW YORK (NY). Cavin-Morris Gallery. Chant Down Babylon: The Self-Taught Artists of Jamaica. October 16-November 15, 1997. ! Artists in the exhibition include: Leonard Daley, Everald Brown, Kapo (Mallica Reynolds). WINSTON-SALEM, (NC). Diggs Gallery. Redemption Songs: The Self-Taught Artists of Jamaica EVERALD BROWN ! February 1 - April 12, 1997. 1996 KINGSTON (Jamaica). National Gallery of Jamaica. Annual National Exhibition 1996. Annual group exhibition. Included: Albert Artwell, Everald Brown, Charles Campbell, Gaston Tabois, ! et al. NEW YORK (NY). Cavin-Morris Gallery. Summer Group Show: Haitian and Jamaican Artists. May 29-August 18, 1996. Included: Pierrot Barra, Everald Brown, Leonard Daley, Ras Dizzy, Lionel St.-Eloi, Reginald English, ! Woody Joseph, George Liautaud, André Pierre, Esau Pierre G. Polycarpe, Max Romain. OCHO RIOS (Jamaica). Harmony Hall. Intuitive Artists. ! Annual group exhibition. Included: Albert Artwell, Everald Brown, et al. 1995 KINGSTON (Jamaica). National Gallery of Jamaica. Annual National Exhibition 1995. Group exhibition. Included: Everald Brown, Cecil Cooper, Christopher Gonzalez, William (Woody) ! Joseph, et al. NEW YORK (NY). Cavin-Morris Gallery. Three Masters of Jamaican Intuitive Art. ! Three-person exhibition. Included: Leonard Daley, Everald Brown. OCHO RIOS (Jamaica). Harmony Hall. Intuitive Artists. ! Annual group exhibition. Included: Albert Artwell, Everald Brown, et al. 1994 KINGSTON (Jamaica). National Gallery of Jamaica. Annual National Exhibition 1994. Group exhibition. Included: Albert Artwell, David Boxer, Everald Brown, Margaret Chen, Ras Dizzy, ! Milton George, Christopher Gonzalez, Anna Henriques, William (Woody) Joseph, et al. OCHO RIOS (Jamaica). Harmony Hall. Intuitive Artists. ! Annual group exhibition. Included: Albert Artwell, Everald Brown, et al. 1993 KINGSTON (Jamaica). National Gallery of Jamaica. Annual National Exhibition 1993. Group exhibition. Included: David Boxer, Everald Brown, Margaret Chen, Leonard Daley. Milton ! George, Christopher Gonzalez, Anna Henriques, William (Woody) Joseph, et al. OCHO RIOS (Jamaica). Harmony Hall. Intuitive Artists. ! Annual group exhibition. Included: Albert Artwell, Everald Brown, et al. 1992 BROOKLYN (NY).