I was looking up something totally unrelated to his work when I stumbled across the paintings of Roger Brown, a painter who was one of the group of Chicago Imagists, an informal school of art in the late 1960’s that had it roots in comic book art, Surrealism and Primitivism. The work was highly individual and always bold in style and statement. When I saw Brown’s images, I wondered how I had missed him before. Strong work with big rhythmic patterns. Just plain good stuff that turns my wheels.
Brown was born in Alabama in 1941 and came to Chicago in 1962 to study at the Art Institute of Chicago and remained a resident of the Windy City until his death in 1997 from liver disease at the age of 55. I can’t give a lot of info here about his biography as I am still learning about his life and work myself. I will let his images tell the story here .
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