iona rozeal brown at the MAM

From the Milwaukee Art Museum:

Listen to iona rozeal brown as she talks about her painting sacrifice, on view in the Museum's New Acquisitions and Rotations Gallery, and her artistic influences. Her painted subjects come from the idea of the Ganguro, which literally means "black face," and fashion-conscious Japanese teenagers. She combines this imagery with 17th- and 18th-century Japanese woodblock prints of geishas, bathhouse girls, samurai, and Kabuki theater actors. The results are extreme hybrids, the combination of traditional Japanese imagery with an overtly hip-hop stylization.

iona dj's after party at Collette Blanchard Gallery

iona rozeal brown dj'd late into the night on March 7th at Collette Blanchard Gallery bringing Armory weekend festivities to a close

iona rozeal brown speaks at MAM

If you happen to be in Milwaukee today, head to the Milwaukee Art Museum to hear G+R artist iona Rozeal Brown talk about her latest work:

Artist Lecture: a3(afro-asiatic allegory) with iona rozeal brown

THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 6:15 PM

Come listen to iona rozeal brown as she talks about her painting sacrifice, on view in the Museum's New Acquisitions and Rotations Gallery, and her artistic influences. Her painted subjects come from the idea of the Ganguro, which literally means "black face," and fashion-conscious Japanese teenagers. She combines this imagery with 17th- and 18th-century Japanese woodblock prints of geishas, bathhouse girls, samurai, and Kabuki theater actors. The results are extreme hybrids, the combination of traditional Japanese imagery with an overtly hip-hop stylization.

Sponsored by the Contemporary Art Society and African American Art Alliance
Lubar Auditorium
Free with Museum admission

iona rozeal brown wins Joyce Award

iona Rozeal Brown has been named an 2009 Joyce Foundation Award winner. The Joyce Foundation, based in Chicago and serving the cities of Chicago, Cleveland, and Detroit, supports the artistic endeavors of artists of color. Brown (in collaboration with the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland) will receive a $50,000 grant to create a new series of work commissioned by the MOCA and to participate in an on-site artist residency program working with advanced high school arts students from the Cleveland area. The students will work alongside the artist to develop a series of painted wooden screens, while other students film a documentary of Brown to be shown during her 2010 exhibition at the MOCA along with all of her work from the new series.

Check out the slideshow of pictures from the awards ceremony in Chicago (G+R Associate Director Jessica Sain was there!) and short video of iona herself on the Joyce Foundation site.