JOAN BROWN
Painter, Sculptor, Teacher, 1938-1990

I didn't give a damn about the objects for themselves any more and they started evolving into these shapes...I always called them 'things.' They were images in an environment whether that environment was sky or a room or simple space and they were worked three-dimensionally with light and dark and the paint kind of thick.
- Joan Brown, A Period Of Exploration: San Francisco 1945-1950 by Mary Fuller McChesney, The Oakland Museum, 1973

Education and Teaching
Studied with Elmer Bischoff at the California School of Fine Arts, San Francisco, B.F.A., 1959; M.F.A., 1960. Taught at the San Francisco Art Institute, 1961-1968; Sacramento State College, 1969-1970; Academy of Art, San Francisco, 1971-1974; University of California, Berkeley, 1974-1990.

Selected Solo Exhibitions 1945-1975
Six Gallery, San Francisco, 1957; The Cellar Foyer, San Francisco, 1958; Batman Gallery, San Francisco, 1959, 1961; Spatsa Gallery, San Francisco, 1959; Staempfli Gallery, New York, 1960, 1961, 1964; Primus-Stuart Gallery, Los Angeles, 1961, 1962; David Stuart Galleries, Los Angeles, 1964; San Francisco Museum of Art, 1971; San Francisco Art Institute, 1973; Charles Campbell Gallery, San Francisco, 1974, 1975; University Art Museum, Berkeley, 1974; Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, 1974.

Selected Group Exhibitions 1945-1975
California School of Fine Arts, San Francisco, 1955-1959; 76th Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association, San Francisco Museum of Art (from 1961, the San Francisco Arts Institute), 1957; 77th Annual, 1958; 82nd Annual, 1963; Young America, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1960; Funk, University of California, Berkeley, 1967; A Period of Exploration: San Francisco 1945-1950, The Oakland Museum,1973.