Karen Tsujimoto is Senior Curator of Art at the Oakland Museum of California. She is the author of many exhibition catalogs, including a recent book on Peter Voulkos. Jacquelynn Baas is Director of the University of California Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. Brenda Richardson is former Deputy Director for Art and Curator of Modern Painting and Sculpture at The Baltimore Museum of Art.
This rich volume, with outstanding color plates and illustrations, is at once an exhibition catalog and the first monograph devoted to the too short career of multitalented West Coast artist Joan Brown (1938-90). Brown's innovative and haunting symbolism is set down in her style of brilliant brushwork. Many of her paintings are autobiographical and to a degree reminiscent of Henri Rousseau and Frida Kahlo. Late in her career, Brown also created works of large-scale public sculpture, with iconography suggesting ancient Egypt, China, and India. Curators/art historians Tsujimoto and Baas lucidly demonstrate the freshness and power of Brown's vision. The volume ends with a long and detailed chronology, an exhibition history, and a bibliography. Highly recommended.ÄMary Hamel-Schwulst, Towson Univ., MD
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