About
Blake Brown is a contemporary visual artist whose work explores memory, survival, and spiritual inheritance within his life as he balances the dualities and responsibilities of being biracial in modern America. Through layered abstraction, text, and cultural symbolism, Brown constructs visual spaces where personal history and collective consciousness converge. His practice operates at the intersection of emotion and archive: honoring what is remembered, what is lost, and what refuses to disappear.
Awards & Honors
Blake Brown’s work has been recognized across local, national, and international art spaces. His career highlights include headlining the Holiday Show at Sophia Street Studios and partnering with Original Grinds coffee shop for rotating displays and Main Street pop-ups. He was featured in Cohart’s July ro User Newsletter and won a live Art Basel FC Miami art battle alongside Los Angeles artist Geouf Gouveia.
His paintings have been exhibited in the Van Der Plas Gallery’s “Of Integration” show in New York City, Richmond's Southside Contemporary Art Gallery’s “Domestic Warfare” exhibition on police violence, and in Average Art Magazine Issue #44, a London-based publication. Additional exhibitions include the d’Art Center’s Virginia College Student Juried Show in Norfolk, VA.
Blake has contributed to community-based projects such as the TRHT Collaborative Art Project with Susan Zurbrigg, commemorating the life of Charlotte Harris. His academic recognition includes a solo senior exhibition at James Madison University, participation in university painting exhibitions, and receiving the juror’s choice award for the ArtWorks Gallery undergraduate juried show. He also presented “Mind of Alexander,” a solo exhibition at Clementine’s Restaraunt in downtown Harrisonburg, VA.