iona rozeal brown: afro-asiatic allegory

Asian Arts Gallery, Center for the Arts
February 9 - May 12, 2012 Opening Reception and Curator’s Talk: Saturday, February 11, 2-4 p.m.
Guest Curator: Dr. Susan Isaacs

Iona Rozeal Brown, one of the nation’s most exciting artists, created a theme after traveling to Japan in 2001. Informed by Ukiyo-e (the fashionable genre painting, also known as “pictures of the floating world” that first appeared in 17th century Japan), Brown’s Asian cultural investigations and interpretations offer profound commentaries about mimicry, gender and constructions of culture. The large scale installation features a selection of paintings and prints as well as a new mural created exclusively for this exhibition, which will be completed in the gallery. During Brown’s artist residency, an open studio from February 7 to 9, 4-5 p.m. invites public dialogue and viewing of the mural in work. Brown will also conduct a workshop with students of the New Song Academy, a school with an underserved population that has a long history of collaboration with Towson University.

Open Studio, February 7, 8, 9, 4-5 p.m. Public viewing on Iona Rozeal Brown completing a new mural in the gallery.
Artist Lecture, February 9, 6:30 p.m. Iona Rozeal Brown will conduct a lecture to introduce the process of her large scale paintings inspired by Japanese aesthetics. In cooperation with the Department of Arts + Design, Art History, Art Education.

Admission is free.