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| Artists | Exhibitions | About Us | Contact | |
STEVEN BROWER |
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| WORKS | BIOGRAPHY | ||
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Born 1969 Washington DC, USA, lives and works in Brooklyn, USA In his recent solo show at Parker's Box, Extravehicular Activity, Brower's preoccupation with the Apollo moon mission era - its reality, mythology, and artistic and social parallels - was presented through his idiosyncratic rendition of a Lunar Excursion Module: the artist presenting its existence as a relic of pioneering American achievement, while simultaneously lingering as a symbol of disappointment and wastefulness. Brower is resolutely an artist who makes things, as a result of his own curiosity, research and experimentation with the world around him. Making artworks that pertain to the built environment, and the conditions that both make possible and impede the artist's ability to produce artwork at all, Brower's practice stems from questioning his own place in the world as artist and individual, and gravitates involuntarily towards metaphor on multiple levels- from the humble to the grandiose. Artist's website: browerpropulsionlab.com |
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| SOLO show | ||
| 2010 | BPL 003, Moranic Mission to Montana, Esther M. Klein Art Gallery At The University City Science Center, Philadelphia, PA, and Visions West Gallery, Livingston, Montana | |
| 2009 | Pre-Launch Operations Test (PLOT) And Bake Sale, Parker's Box, Brooklyn, New York | |
| 2007 |
BPL: Brower Propulsion Labatory,Parker's Box, Brooklyn, USA Munin And The Search For Life On Earth, Michael Steinberg Fine Art, New York, USA |
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| 2004 | Extravehicular Activity, Parker's Box, Brooklyn, USA | |
| 2000 | Vacuum, Galleria Franco Noero, Torino, Italy | |
| 1999 |
Steven Brower, Vienna Secession, Vienna, Austria Utility, Lombard-Freid Fine Arts, New York, USA |
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| GROUP show | ||
| 2010 | WNTRSLN, Parker's Box, Brooklyn, USA | |
| 2009 | Finding Work: Representing Labor In Contemporary Art, curated by Keith Miller, Gallatin Galleries (NYU), New York | |
| 2008 | Steven Brower and Wendy Klemperer, Union College, Schenectady, USA | |
| 2007 | BPL-001, Memorial Service for Conrad Carpenter, Royal International Pavilion, Llangollen, Wales, UK | |
| 2006 | Installation of LEM, Museum of Flight, Seattle, USA | |
| 2005 | Summer Selections, The Fields, Art Omi, Ghent, USA | |
| 2002 |
Crafting Space, SMART Project Space, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Ghost Town, Forde Espace d'Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland |
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| 2001 |
Pay Attention, Please, Museo d'Arte Provincia di Nuoro, Nuoro, Italy Chain Reaction: Rube Goldberg and Contemporary Art, Williams College, Williamstown, and Tang Museum, Saratoga Springs, New York, USA |
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| 2000 |
Genealogy, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand Dreams in the Void: Post-Heroic Visions of Space, Temple Gallery, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA |
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| 1999 |
Modell-Wirklichkeit, Art Gallery of Munster, Munster, Germany What Your Children Should Know About Conceptualism, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen and Potsdam Germany Construction Drawings, Kunst-Werke Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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| 1998 |
Little Worlds, Dunlop Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada Some Young New Yorkers II, PS1, New York, USA |
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| 1997 |
Picturing: Art According to The World, Bard College, Annandale-on- Hudson, USA Wit, Whimsy, and Humor, College of New Rochelle, New York, USA |
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| 1996 |
Close to Home, Lehman College, Bronx, New York,USA |
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| 1995 |
Hick, E.S. Vandam, New York, USA Creation/Recreation, Islip Art Museum, Islip, New York, USA Form Follows Dysfunction, Group exhibition curated with Robert Kalka, University of Vermont, Burlington, USA |
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| STUDIES | ||
| 1991 | Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York. (Full Scholarship) BFA, Highest Honors | |
| SPECIAL PROJECTS | ||
| 2009 | Contribution, Brecken Ridge, WVA, High-Tech Ghost Town, Shifter Magazine, issue 15 | |
| 2008 | Lecture, How To Start An Aerospace Company Without Really Knowing Anything, SIAS University, Xinzheng City, China | |
| 2007 | Contribution, "Our Comic Book," The Comic Book Project, UK | |
| 2005 | Advertisement's page, Cabinet Magazine, issue 17 | |
| 2004 |
Visiting Lecturer, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA Visiting Lecturer, Cal State University, Bakersfield, USA |
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| 2001 | Residency Art in General, New York, USA | |
| 2000 | Residency, Govett Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand | |
| 1997 |
The Writer's Project, P.S. 1, Long Island City, USA Panel discussion, Visions of Masculinity-Images of Power, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, USA |
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| 1996 |
Visiting lecturer at Long Island University at C.W. Post Letter From Black Mountain College, article for ANY Magazine |
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| 1993-1996 | Curated Exhibitions CHAMBER 1--6, New York, USA | |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY | ||
| 2008 |
Lebowitz, Cathy, Steven Brower, Art In America, September Kalm, James, Brooklyn Dispatches Authentic Beauty, or The Real Phony, The Brooklyn Rail, February Steven Brower, The New Yorker, January Kalm, James, Steve Brower’s “BPL” At Parker’s Box, Wagmag, January |
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| 2005 |
Connally, Siobhan, Steven Brower, Artist, The Artful Mind, June Ragaini, Robert, Omi, The Art Has Landed, Register-Star, June 16 Amy, Michael, Review Steven Brower, Sculpture, April |
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| 2004 | Sloterdijk, Peter, Spharen III,Schaume, Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main | |
| 2002 | Siegal, Jennifer, ed, Mobile, The Art of Portable Architecture, Princeton Architectural Press, New York, USA | |
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Kiendl,Anthony, and Jeanne Randolph, Little Worlds, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina Public Library Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada Collu, Cristiana, Fernando Castro, Luca Beatrice, Alberto Ruiz, and Gianni Canova, Pay Attenti(on) Please, MAN, Museo d'Arte della Provincia di Nuoro, Skira editore Milan Bell, Jonathan, ed, Carchitecture, Birkhauser/August Media, London Fallon,Roberta, Philadelphia Story, Philadelphia Weekly January |
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| 2000 | Laird, Tessa, Genealogy Mike Stevenson and Steven Brower, Eyeline, Spring | |
| 1999 |
Marcoci, Roxana, Steven Brower: From White Cube to Infrastructure, Trans 6 Miller, Keith, Review Utility, Art Papers, July/August Canning, Sue, Steven Brower Utility, Sculpture, July/August Carr, C., Handyman's Special, New York Village Voice, June 4 Halle, Howard, Steven Brower: Critics Pick, TimeOut NY, March 31 Johnson, Ken, Review, Utililty, The New York Times,, March 19 Damianovic,Maia, Catalogue Essay, Side Show, Lombard/Freid |
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| 1997 |
Dykstra, Jean , First Exit To Brooklyn, Art & Auction, December Mumford, Steve,Stalking the Soho Dodo, Review, January 10 Cotter, Holland, Review, The Experimenters, The New York Times, January 10 |
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| 1996 |
Pascucci, Ernest, Review Downsize, Art Forum, November Zimmer, William, Honoring Women As Keepers of the Home, The New York Times, October 20 Smith, Roberta, Review Downsize, The New York Times, July 19 Canning, Susan, Review Downsize, New Art Examiner, July 10 Arning, Bill, Review Downsize, Time Out New York, July 10 Levin, Kim, Review Downsize, CHOICES, Village Voice, July 2 Harrison, Helen A., Artists Who Make Work Out of Play, The New York Times, July 1 |
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