During her 35-year career, Joan Brown, a San Francisco native, painted herself as a cat, a mother, a mystic, and a long-distance swimmer. These idiosyncratic paintings, characterized by bright colors ...

Joan Brown’s pithy, self-assured paintings are kaleidoscopic narratives that are simultaneously autobiographical and mythic. She was an original and uncompromising artist. “The more I am able to ...

The exhibitions highlight the work of Diego Rivera and Joan Brown. SFMOMA apparently didn’t intend to offer the two artists as a study in comparison and contrast, but they certainly lend themselves to ...

36 x 24 in. (91.4 x 61 cm.) Provenance: Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, circa 1970 Notes: Joan Brown, an established artist with a rich exhibition history, found herself amidst a whirlwind of ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Full disclosure right at the top: I found writing this review of Joan Brown at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art more than a little challenging. I don’t know that I’ve ever felt ...

San Francisco legend Joan Brown’s first major retrospective at SFMOMA is a spiritual lesson in letting go. Boasting 80 paintings and sculptures across nine galleries, the show chronicles Brown’s ...

Joan Brown's Joan + Donald, 1982, Oil enamel on canvas, 72 1/4 x 60 in. (183.5 x 152.4 cm), collection of Adam Lindemann At the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), there's a captivating ...

Brown likely could have gone on painting commercially successful works in the same vein (one graced the cover of the influential Artforum magazine in 1963). Despite the monthly stipend at stake she ...

In the House of the Trembling Eye is an expansive group exhibition staged by the London-based artist Allison Katz across the entirety of the Aspen Art Museum, organized in collaboration with the ...

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s online promotion for its Joan Brown retrospective suggests we need an introduction to the Bay Area painter who flourished in the 1960s, ‘70s and ‘80s. So she’s ...