Christopher Brown

Christopher Brown (born 1951), is an American artist and educator. He is known for his paintings and prints, often figurative and feature abstract settings with repeating patterns or shapes. He taught at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1981 to 1994. Brown has also worked as an adjunct professor at the California College of the Arts.

Early life and education Christopher Brown was born in 1951 at the United States Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune in Jacksonville, North Carolina. He was raised in Warren, Ohio and in Urbana, Illinois. At U.C. Davis during his graduate studies, he was a student of Wayne Thiebaud, William T. Wiley, and Roy De Forest.

Career Many of Brown's large scale painting works are painted from memory and he sometimes uses photographs for reference. the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art, and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.