Ceres - Salt Note Suite

Salt Note Suite

Using two small brushes held in the same hand, Brown explored forms that are both abstract and figurative.

Composition

Rising to fame in the 1980s East Village art scene, Brown was a painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist. He has been exhibited in institutions like Centre de Pompidou, MoMA, Art Institute of Chicago.

Recognition

The variety of shape in this series of black and white images provides a small symphony of form that can fill a room.

Intent

Jumpstart a collection with these eight coveted lithographs.

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Ceres - Salt Note Suite I

Salt Note Suite I

The antique Swedish Lessebo paper helps to generate light from Brown's' majestic ink.

The Cardinal red is punctuated by the vertically linear form of the page –&nbsp;here he connects painting to etching through sugarlift and spitbite techniques.

This series is not only visually sublime, but a single collection by a critically acclaimed artist.

Ceres - Salt Note Suite II

Salt Note Suite II

These forms of black ink etched onto hand-made paper exemplify the synthesis of simple materials and the human hand.

This bold series unfolds like a dance in its succession of six images.

Truly captivating collection made by a highly acclaimed artist.

Ceres - Salt Note Black I

Salt Note Black I

The length of an adult, this vertical form stands boldly on an airy atmosphere of dots.

If every vertical form suggests a human presence, Brown experiments with the personality and assertion of the abstract form.

Its grand size and prominence set this work apart from others. Brown has strong six figure auction records.

Ceres - Salt Note Black II

Salt Note Black II

Brown created a base of lithographic forms by stamping ink with a fingerprint-like trace, varying the rhythm of the composition.

Using an antique hand-made paper intended for schools, Brown suggests that both the making and viewing of art is a process of learning.

Brown's strong six figure auction records only amplifies this stunning Hero work.

Ceres - Salt Notes

Salt Notes

This book uses rich papers and and extravagantly complex techniques to make the simple profound.

"Salt" as a symbol of permanence, while "Notes" evoke both music and marks. Both these words are about essence as&nbsp;they penetrate and extract from whatever they encounter.

Brown has strong six figure auction records and this book calls to art collectors.

Ceres - Salt Notes Red

Salt Notes Red

Brown experiments with two mediums –&nbsp;lithography and etching, using the same ink of Cardinal red and varying the rhythm of the composition.

This work is anchored in a rhythmic record of color and form –&nbsp;simple yet with complexity of small variations.

Brown has a strong six figure auction record.

Ceres - Salt Note Brown

Salt Note Brown

Brown uses painting and an etching technique to foil abstraction and linearity on hand-made Whatman paper.

In this work, Brown contemplates the relationship between abstraction and descriptive representation.

Ceres - I Am For That

I Am For That

Blue ink on blue handmade paper, Brown's drawings probe the mystery of scale in which forms press against their constraining boundaries.

Each of these drawings have the sense of missives, sent by a traveler in an exotic land--in this case, Morocco-- to record his impressions of the place

Folio of five beautiful works saturated wtih color and boldness.

Ceres - Diptych VII

Diptych VII

Each hand-painted print begins with a printed matrix from which Brown responds –&nbsp;dramatically painting on the plate creating a unique composition.

These two works were created with the intent to be the authority of painting — singular, unique, indelible.

This one-of-a-kind pair by a six figure auction artist is a coveted collectible.

Ceres - Diptych VIII

Diptych VIII

These two works were created with the intent to be the authority of paintings – singular, unique, indelible.

Ceres - Diptych IX

Diptych IX

These two works were created with the intent to be the authority of paintings –&nbsp; singular, unique, indelible.

Ceres - Diptych V

Diptych V

These two works were created with the intent to be the authority of paintings –&nbsp;singular, unique, indelible.

Ceres - Diptych II

Diptych II

These two works were created with the intent to be the authority of paintings –&nbsp;singular, unique, indelible. And it is.

Ceres - Single XIII

Single XIII

This work was created with the intent to be the authority of paintings — singular, unique, indelible.

Ceres - Single XVI

Single XVI

This one-of-a-kind Hero work by a six figure auction artist is a coveted collectible.

Ceres - Single XII

Single XII

This work was created with the intent to be the authority of paintings — singular, unique, indelible.

Ceres - Single XV

Single XV

Ceres - Single XX

Single XX

Ceres - Salt Note Black and White

Salt Note Black and White

Brown creates a field of disks in black ink bringing to attention regualrity and order.

This work is anchored in simplicity of Brown's marking but also the complexity of its small variations.

James Brown

James Brown was an American painter born in Los Angeles, California in 1951.