James Roger Brown

Place: Hamilton

Born: 1941

Death: 1997

Biography:

Roger Brown was born on December 10, 1941, and was raised in Hamilton and Opelika, Alabama. A keen storyteller, Brown modeled his paintings on the narrative paradigms of early Italian Renaissance painting. He developed a mature visual vocabulary in the late 1960s, with visual themes including silhouetted figures, nocturnal cityscapes, and theatre facades and interiors. In the late 1980s, Brown adapted his work and collecting disciplines to Southern California, moving into a home and studio (designed by Stanley Tigerman) in La Conchita, where he lived until his death in 1997. Collected art and objects functioned as important source materials for Brown's work and were an integral part of his practice and discipline.