Iona Rozeal Brown

Iona Rozeal Brown (born in 1966) is a contemporary American painter best known for her narrative canvases commenting on cultural identity.[1] She pulls her inspiration from ukiyo-e printmaking and contemporary hip-hop.[2] She touches upon African-American culture and Japanese ganguro culture, which appropriates black culture.[3]

Iona Rozeal Brown
Born1966
Washington D.C.
NationalityAmerican
EducationPratt Institute, San Francisco Art Institute, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Yale University School of Art
Notable work
The Blackface Paintings

Background

Iona Rozeal Brown is from Washington, DC.[4] She did not begin painting until her twenties. She got her education at the Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY. She then went on to get her BFA at the San Francisco Art Institute, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME (1999), and got her MFA at Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT, in 2002. She lives and works in New York, NY.[5]

Some time after 2013, the artist began using the name Rozeal in place of her full name.[6]

Work

Brown's work unites multiple, seemingly irreconcilable cultures. Her fantastical and stylized mixed media paintings combine the style of Japanese prints, hip-hop, and graffiti. While studying in San Francisco, she was introduced to ganguro, a 1990s Japanese movement wherein young women would paint their skin darker and dress as their favorite hip-hop stars. She later traveled to Japan to learn more about this subculture.[7] Brown's work around this topic was titled "The Blackface Paintings".[3] This series began her quickly growing career.[8] She titled her earliest exhibitions, "a3," for "Afro-Asiatic Allegories."[9]


Brown has also made work about voguing, including paintings and performances that feature performers from the House of Ninja.[10] She created the performance, "Battle of Yestermore," for Performa in 2011.[11] She presented paintings inspired by the performers in her exhibition, "Introducing...The House of Bando," at Salon 94 in 2013.[12]


Brown's experience as a DJ informs her work.[13]

Selected exhibitions and collections

iona rozeal brown's work has been featured in solo exhibitions at numerous galleries and institutions including:[14][15]


iona rozeal brown's work is held in many permanent collections including the Hirshhorn Museum,[22] the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts,[23] the National Gallery of Art, and the North Carolina Museum of Art.[24]

References
  1. Brown, Iona; Brielmaier, Isolde; Cleveland.|, Museum of Contemporary Art; Reich, Megan Lykins | (2010). Iona Rozeal Brown. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz. ISBN 9783775726016.
  2. Mary L., Schumacher (28 June 2013). "'30 Americans' at the Milwaukee Art Museum". The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Retrieved August 4, 2017.
  3. Kennedy, Randy (February 22, 2013). "Iona Rozeal Brown's Mixed Mediums". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved November 7, 2017.
  4. "iona rozeal brown – NCMALearn". learn.ncartmuseum.org. Retrieved 2020-12-17.
  5. "ROZEAL" (PDF). www.adamsongallery.com. Adamson Gallery. Retrieved August 4, 2017.
  6. "Rozeal". Adamson Gallery. Retrieved 23 March 2019.
  7. Powell, Linda S (2012). "30 Americans: An Inspiration for Culturally Responsive Teaching". Art Education. 65 (5): 33–40. doi:10.1080/00043125.2012.11519190 – via Ebsco.
  8. Kennedy, Randy (February 22, 2013). "Single Works With Myriad Influences". The New York Times.
  9. "a3 blackface #59 (Primary Title) - (2004.67)". Virginia Museum of Fine Arts |. Retrieved 2019-03-04.
  10. Kennedy, Randy (2013-02-22). "Single Works With Myriad Influences". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-03-04.
  11. "Performa · In Conversation with iona rozeal brown (Part 1)". performa-arts.org. Retrieved 2019-03-04.
  12. "introducing…THE HOUSE OF BANDO". Salon94. Retrieved 2019-03-04.
  13. "Meet the Artist: iROZEALb (iona rozeal brown)". Artsy. 2014-04-01. Retrieved 2019-03-04.
  14. "Untitled II (Male), Iona Rozeal Brown | Artspace.com". Artspace. Retrieved 2019-03-04.
  15. "ROZEAL - Artists - Artworks | Adamson Gallery Washington DC". www.adamsongallery.com. Retrieved 2019-03-04.
  16. iona rozeal brown: Matrix 152. Wadsworth Atheneum. 2004. pp. https://www.thewadsworth.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Matrix-152.pdf.
  17. iona rozeal brown: Matrix 152. Wadsworth Atheneum. 2004. pp. https://www.thewadsworth.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Matrix-152.pdf.
  18. "The Paintings of Iona Rozeal Brown". The University of Arizona Museum of Art and Archive of Visual Arts. Retrieved 2019-03-04.
  19. "iona rozeal brown: all falls down, by Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland". Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland. Retrieved 2019-03-04.
  20. "introducing…THE HOUSE OF BANDO". Salon94. Retrieved 2019-03-04.
  21. "iROZEALb, Joslyn Art Museum Omaha Nebraska". www.joslyn.org. Retrieved 2019-03-04.
  22. "Search Result Details". Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden | Smithsonian. Retrieved 2019-03-04.
  23. "a3 blackface #59 (Primary Title) - (2004.67)". Virginia Museum of Fine Arts |. Retrieved 2019-03-04.
  24. "Explore Iona reseal brown's a3 blackface #62". learn.ncartmuseum.org. Retrieved 2019-03-04.
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