Art Brown
Art Brown
Art Brown of Kingsport, Tennessee is an award-winning graphic designer and artist with over 25 years of work experience in corporate and higher-education settings. His accomplishments include numerous American Advertising Awards and work published as part of the LogoLounge: International Identities by Leading Designers series of books by Rockport Publishers. He holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from East Tennessee State University and serves as associate professor at Milligan University, where he has taught since 2010.
In my relief prints, I enjoy departing from my accustomed world of digital graphic design. I create images of dark, mechanical creatures and textures as visual metaphors in order to express various ways I might feel about social and political issues, or when events and actions in the world seem to be going awry. Some of the robotic forms are often inspired by boxy 1950s tin robots, while others take on an abstract shape and texture, or are influenced by the anatomy of aquatic creatures. The backgrounds of many of my works include overlapping words and phrases printed on top of each other multiple times using letterpress wood type — creating a “current” of visual noise made up of juxtaposing, illegible layers of information.
