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ABOUT

Ian is originally from the southeastern United States. He spent his early days drawing and exploring the pine forests that surrounded his home. He studied art in Atlanta GA and Oakland CA, crossing the country many times by bus, train, and car. Before finding a home in the Blue Ridge Mountains, he lived in Scotland, the Montana Rockies, the Washington Cascades, and on the California Coast. He also spent a brief period living in the 1930s.

The influences for Ian’s art include folk art and vintage illustration, as well as indigenous art and Renaissance paintings.

See his latest work on Instagram and Facebook, and check out dribbble for illustrations.

BUZZ

"Ian Brownlee employs landscape as a device to capitalize on our basic impulse to weave images into narrative. In his paintings, the use of perspective to create an unexpectedly dramatic spatial illusion permits us entry into what appears to be an independently existent and self-sufficient "world" located neither in the past or the present, but always slightly out of reach and continually open to interpretation."

- Trevor Richardson, Director, Herter Art Gallery, University of Massachussetts, Amherst. Quoted in New American Paintings

RESUMÉ

Exhibitions

  • “Faculty Show” Arrowmont School Of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN, 2022, 2021, 2018
  • "Forged Replica" Spiers Gallery, Brevard College, Brevard, NC, 2022
  • "All Good Things Under the Sun” 311 Gallery, Raleigh NC, 2022
  • "Go Figure" Blue Spiral One, Asheville, NC, 2019
  • "New Times Three" Blue Spiral One, Asheville, NC, 2017
  • "National Juried Exhibition of Works on Paper", Brand Library and Art Center, Glendale, CA, 2015, curated by Kent Twitchell
  • "Monster Drawing Rally" Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA, 2015
  • “Solo Show” Penelope's Den, Woodside, CA, 2013
  • “Play” Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC, 2013, curated by Cole Hendrix
  • "Waking Up With Van Gogh" Hickory Museum of Art, Hickory, NC, 2012.
  • “Local Histories” 523 East Franklin St, Chapel Hill, NC. 2011. Curated by Elin O'Hara Slavick and Carol Magee
  • "Curly Q" Jack The Pelican Presents Gallery, New York, NY 2009
  • "18th National Juried Show" Art Center of Northern New Jersey, New Milford, NJ. 2009. Juror: Clare Bell, Guggenheim Museum, NYC.
  • "On The Verge" juried show, Front Gallery, Asheville, NC 2009
  • "The Bold and the Beautiful" Hendersonville Arts Council, NC 2008
  • "Seasons" Gallery Minerva, Asheville, NC 2006
  • "Juried Show" Bascom Louise Gallery, Highlands, NC 2005
  • "Art as if the Earth Mattered" Front Gallery, Asheville, NC 2005
  • "Slowing Down- Patterson, Brownlee" Gallery 100, Atlanta, GA, 1999
  • "New Work: Jane Virga and Ian Brownlee" California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA, 1998
  • "New Painting" Colony Square Gallery, Atlanta, GA, 1998

Awards

  • Featured in "Studio Visit Magazine" 2010. Juror: Steven Zevitas
  • One of ten artists selected for "On The Verge", WNC magazine, 2009. Juror: Rob Pulleyn, Fibrearts Magazine and Asheville Art Museum.
  • Featured in "New American Paintings" #64, 2006. Juror: Trevor Richardson, Director, Herter Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  • 2nd place in a public art competition for a public library, Brevard, NC, 2006
  • Regional Artist Project Grant, Asheville Area Arts Council, 2004
  • 2nd place in Cobb County Art Show, Cobb County, GA, 1997
  • 1st place, Congressional Art Competition, Augusta GA, 1995

Murals

  • Common Desk” Wilmington, NC, 2021
  • Thank You, Health Care Workers” Asheville, NC, 2020
  • Penguin Parking, Mission Cancer Center, Asheville, NC 2018
  • Wildbout, King Commons, Johnson City, TN, 2017
  • Mission Hospital Pediatric ICU, Asheville, NC, 2016
  • Modern Recess, Children's Fitness Center, San Ramon, CA, 2014
  • Mission Hospital Reuters' Children's Clinic, Asheville, NC, 2012
  • Mermaid Inn, Menlo Park, CA, 2011
  • Asheville Pediatrics, NC, 2007.
  • Mission Hospital Reuters' Children's Clinic, 2006-7.
  • Rosetta's Kitchen (restaurant), Asheville, NC, 2005.
  • Colonel Wright Elementary School, The Dalles, OR, 2001.
  • Painting "Ptarmigan Tunnel" on display, Woodruff Arts Center, Atlanta, GA, since 1999.

Education

  • BFA from Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta GA, 1999
  • Attended California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA, Fall 1998.

Teaching

  • Arrowmont School of Art and Craft, Gatlinburg, TN, 2022, 2021, 2018
  • Creativity Workshops, MN, CA, TN, NC, 2015-2018
  • Math N Art / Swan Education Center, Asheville, NC, 2001-2003