Donald Brown

Statement:

Born in Jackson, Michigan and raised in Grass Lake, Michigan, Don Brown began making art when he was in jr. high school and he has continued as a practicing artist ever since. While he works in photography, painting and sculpture, as well as on film making and screenwriting projects, the relationship between knowledge and society and its context, both literally and culturally, has remained a consistent focus in his work throughout his career.

Brown's work is concerned with the relationship of visual elements, but its ultimate source is the relationship between himself, other people, knowledge and society. The desire is always to enter the mental space of those being imaged—to demonstrate the gravity of how knowledge informs gesture.

His current creative projects include ongoing visual research on issues of knowledge and mind control in societies around the world as well as projects closer to his home community.

Brown resides in DeWitt, Michigan with his wife, Bonnie and two daughters Roslynn and Karmen.