Read Indepth Article Feb 29, 2008
She studied painting at UC Berkeley and later at the San Francisco Art Institute under Joan Brown, Elmer Bischoff and Richard Diebenkorn. She lives in San Francisco where she has been painting, exhibiting and teaching. (AbsoluteArts.com)
A stunning gift lights up LACMA Jan 12, 2008
There is a nice nook with terrific Bay Area figurative paintings by David Park and Joan Brown, capped by Jay DeFeo's monumental 1959 starburst, "The Jewel." And since abstract painting and sculpture is the focus, it's nice that the sequence ends with three excellent Hard-edge paintings by the great John McLaughlin. He was L.A.'s premier postwar master. (Los Angeles Times)
Roy De Forest; his art melded whimsy, nature May 23, 2007
Mr. De Forest belonged to a group of Bay Area individualists who included Robert Arneson, Joan Brown, William T. Wiley, and Peter Saul. They were often grouped under the heading of Funk, a term Mr. De Forest disliked. (Boston Globe)
Art from the Golden State is on display at museum May 1, 2007
"At the Beach" by Joan Brown shows four formidable ladies in swim attire, chatting, sipping Napa Valley red from wineglasses. Before she painted the picture, Brown had just swum San Francisco Bay, finishing last in a field of 85. (New Britain Herald, CT)
Mansion gets extreme makeover Apr 29, 2007
" Downstairs, decorative painter Lynne Rutter conceived a European-style Vintage Laundry. The walls and ceiling are original, so color variations and cracks are authentic. Rutter faux-painted the concrete floors to resemble marble and embellished the folding screen with neoclassical motifs. The vintage linens, clothing, sewing machine and washboard may have you thinking you've traveled back to the 1920s. JOANNE FURIO, correspondent: Designer show houses bring out the inner Diana Vreeland in... (San Francisco Chronicle)
Americans flunk religion Mar 8, 2007
" "We're impoverished by ignorance," says the Rev. Joan Brown Campbell, former general secretary of the National Council of Churches. "You can't draw on the resources of faith if you only have an emotional understanding, not a sense of the texts and teachings. " But if people don't know Sodom and Gomorrah were two cities destroyed for their sinful ways, Campbell blames Sunday schools that "trivialized religious education. (USA Today)
Berman show sheds light on dark side of Beats Oct 19, 2006
Many familiar names appear: Bruce Conner, Michael McClure, Diane di Prima, George Herms, Jess (1923-2004), Joan Brown (1938-1990), Jay DeFeo (1929-1989) and others. Visitors who remember the 1997 "Beat Culture and the New America, 1950-1965" exhibition at the old de Young Museum will catch many echoes of it here. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Inside looks at the world of art Sep 15, 2006
Nancy Jo Mullen peels a final monotype print off the plate (Roy Musitelli). Artists open their doors to visitors during the annual Art Studio Tour. (Mail Tribune, OR)
What do you like about your job? Sep 4, 2006
Joan Brown, 50, registered nurse When Joan Brown's mother and father both fell ill with cancer in the mid-1980s, she cared for them through their final months. "Going through that experience, I saw how much they really needed me to be there and I started realizing how many other people need that kind of care," Brown said. (Newsday -- New York City)
By a stroke of luck, Caitlin Mitchell-Dayton came to be the real artist behind the big screen's 'Art School Confidential' May 14, 2006
As an undergraduate and graduate student at UC Berkeley, Mitchell-Dayton, 49, got the same sort of encouragement from eminent Bay Area painters including David Simpson, Joan Brown (1938-1990) and Elmer Bischoff (1916-1991). The year or so she spent at UC Santa Barbara before moving to Berkeley "felt too much like my life in San Diego," where she grew up, Mitchell-Dayton said. (San Francisco Chronicle)
