Ben Thorp Brown
Ben Thorp Brown’s work seeks to expand the possibilities of sculptural and time based media practice. Expanding on his interests in video installations that incorporate sculpture, furniture, drawing, and photography with living plant life, and geological matter, Cura’s Garden marks the next step of the artist’s practice into a material and conceptual approach that creates an entire environmental work, one that will shift and develop over time.
Brown’s past films are a cross between documentary and experimental filmmaking, and address resurgences of myth and fantasy in everyday life, the effects of history, and architecture on the body.
His work has been presented in recent solo museum exhibitions at the Jeu de Paume, CAPC Bordeaux, Museo Amparo, and the St. Louis Art Museum. His work has been featured in significant group exhibitions including Empathy Revisited: Designs for More Than One at the Istanbul Biennial, The Supermarket of Images at the Jeu de Paume, Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1904 – 2016 at The Whitney Museum, Greater New York 2015 at MoMA PS1, Image Employment at MoMA PS1, In Practice: Chance Motives at SculptureCenter, and in film festivals such as The New York Film Festival and Rotterdam International Film Festival. His work has been reviewed in numerous media such as The New York Times, Art in America, NPR, ArtForum, Hyperallergic, Art Agenda, Mousse Magazine. He has received awards from Creative Capital, the Graham Foundation, the Shifting Foundation, and was an artist in residence at the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas. He attended the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, and is a graduate of Williams College and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.