NAME, DEPARTMENT: Mia Brownell, Art Department
EXHIBITS/SHOWS/PERFORMANCES OF CREATIVE WORKS:
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
My artwork is in the following public, corporate or private art collections:
Fidelity Investments, Boston, MA
National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC
State University of New York, Buffalo, NY
Wellington Management, Boston, MA
Numerous Private Collections throughout the United States of America and abroad
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
A solo exhibition is dedicated to one artist’s body of work. Exhibitions are on public display three to four weeks. The following art galleries have regional, national or international programming:
2008: Metaphor Contemporary Art, Brooklyn, NY
2007: National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC
2007: Judy Ann Goldman Fine Art, Boston, MA
2006: Big Orbit Gallery, Buffalo, NY
2005: Metaphor Contemporary Art, Brooklyn, NY
2003: Duke University Union Brown Gallery, Durham, NC
1998: Castellani Art Museum, Niagara Falls, NY
1995: Big Orbit Gallery, Buffalo, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
A group exhibition is dedicated to several artists work at one time. Exhibitions are on public display three to four weeks. The following art galleries have regional, national or international programming:
2007: US Department of State, Art in Embassies Program, Port Louis, Mauritius
2006: YEA! (Young Emerging Artists), Westchester Arts Council, Arts Exchange Gallery.
2006: Modern Edens: Permutations of Paradise, Spur Projects, Portola Valley, California.
2006: Survive/Thrive/Alive, Wave Hill Glyndor Gallery, Bronx, NY Curator: Jennifer McGregor
2006: SCSU women in the Arts, Lyman Center Gallery, New Haven, CT
2006: Scope New York, Art Fair, New York, New York
2006: Seven, Rockland Center for the Arts, West Nyack, NY Curator: Lynn Stien
2005: Caspar David Séance, Jack the Pelican Presents, Brooklyn, NY
2005: Synthesis and Distribution: Experiments in Collaboration, Pace University Gallery, NY
2005: Reality Show, Kenise Barns Fine Art, Larchmont, NY
2005: Faculty Show, Kehler Liddell Gallery, New Haven
2005: Scope Hamptons, Art Fair, Southampton, New York
2005: Flash Art Fair, International Fair of Contemporary Art, Milan, Italy
2005: Art Chicago, International Fair of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
2005: She Blinded Me With Science, Gallery 138, New York, NY (Two-person show )
2004: Breathing Space, Metaphor Contemporary Art, Brooklyn, NY
2004: Media Loft Gallery, New Rochelle, New York.
2004: Faculty Exhibition, Kehler Liddell Gallery, New Haven
2004: Shifting Affinities,Yale University School of Art, New Haven . Curator: Paul Clabby
2004: Second Nature, Fish Tank Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, New York.
2004: Fabrication, Bruce Gallery, Edinboro University, Edinboro Pennsylvania.
2003: Samson Fine Arts, New York, New York. Curator/Director: Maeve Gyenes.
2003: Faculty Plus, Southeast Louisiana University.
2003: Flat File Exhibition, Artspace, New Haven
2002: Claiming the Spirit. Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts.
2002: Food. Greene County Council on the Arts, Catskill, New York.
2002: Works on Paper. ArtSpace, New Haven, Connecticut.
2002: The Nature of Things. Gallery 138, New York, New York.. Curator: Brookie Maxwell.
2002: Symbology. Times Square Lobby Gallery, New York, New York. Curator: Cyn McLean.
2002: Insight/OnSight. Untitled (Space) Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut. (catalogue)
2002: Big Orbit ten years of spin. Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, New York. Curator: Gerald Mead.
2002: Works on Paper. The Park Avenue Armory. Presented by Samson Fine Art, New York, NY.
2002: Zg Gallery. Zg Gallery, Chicago, Illinois. Curator: Myra Casis.
2002: Planet Earth. New Gallery at the University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida.
2002: Holding Pattern. Grimshaw-Gudewicz Art Gallery, Fall River, Massachusetts.
2001: Reflections. NCC Gallery, Norwalk, Connecticut. Curator: Susan Hardesty.
2001: Drawing Today. Arons Art Gallery, Hamden, Connecticut. Curator: Ben Westbrock.
2001: Drawing National. Montgomery College, Rockville, Maryland.
2001: Final Thoughts. Gallery in the Wood, South Windsor, Connecticut.
2001: Biennale Internazionale Dell’Arte Contemporanea, Firenze, Italy. (unable to participate)
2001: Grrrls!. Untitled (Space) Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut.
2001: Third National. Studio 4 West Gallery, Piermont, New York.
2001: Environmental Injustices. Gallery of Social/Political Art, Boston. MA .
2000: Untitled (space) opens the flatfile. Untitled (space), New Haven, Connecticut
2000: Unknown Generation X. Danforth Gallery, The Maine Artists Space
2000: 4 x 4: 4 Mediums by 4 Artists. Chautauqua Center for the Visual Arts,
2000: Fabulous Food. NCC Gallery, Norwalk Community College, Norwalk
2000: By the Palette, For the Palate. Nash Gallery at the University of Minnesota
2000: Alumni Show. Alcazar Gallery, Baltimore School for the Arts, Maryland.
2000:Culture of Class: Issues of Class in North American Culture. Decker Gallery at the Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland. Curator: Will Hipps.
1999: Fire & Ice: Nature and Technology. Attleboro Museum, Massachusetts.
1999: Tackling Meaning, The Curator’s Playbook. Red Chair Gallery, Kansas
1999: Illusions. Kleist Center of Art and Drama, Cleveland, Ohio.
1999: Apocalypse. Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn, New York.
1999: American Sentences. Sponsored Reality, Union City, New Jersey.
1999: Stills in Life, Appleton Art Center, Appleton, Wisconsin. Invitational.
1999: The Feast, Fine Art Celebrating Food. Gallery in the Wood, South Windsor, CT
1999: You are what you eat. Paramount Center for the Arts, Peekskill, New York
1998: Constant Cravings. Constance Lindolm Fine Art, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
1998:Art for Environmental Advocacy. Adell McMillan Gallery at the University of Oregon,
1998:The Inanimate: 12 Artists on Still Life. Burchfield-Penney Art Center .
1997: Biohazard. Walter/McBean Gallery at the San Francisco Art Institute.
1997: Remix. MMC Gallery, Marymount Manhattan College, New York, NY
1997: Consum(e)ation: Food, Fetishes, and Fantasy. Tufts University Art Gallery,
1997: Artist Residency Exchange: Western New York. Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center
CHAPTERS/SECTIONS PUBLISHED IN BOOKS:
Contributor, 100 Creative Drawing Ideas. Compiled and edited by Anna Held Audette (Shambhala Publications, Inc. Boston, MA.) p. 158-9. Animated by a Photo Collage
Contributor, 2008 Desk Diary, United States Department of State (Global Publishing Solutions, Vienna Austria). Featuring Art in Embassies Program exhibiting artists.
JOURNAL ARTICLES PUBLISHED:
Brownell, Mia. “Complexities of the Garden”, Chicago Art Journal, (University of Chicago. Michael Tymkiw and Christina Yu, Editors) 2007 Issue. Featured Artist.
Brownell, Mia. “Mia Brownell”, Issues in Science and Technology, (University of Texas, Dallas. Kevin Finneran, Editor) Summer 2007. Featured Artist.
Brownell, Mia. “Complexities of the Garden”, Gastronomica: Journal of Food and Culture, (University of California Press. Darra Goldstein, Editor) Summer 2006, Featured Artist.
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Reviews, works reproduced, and other publications
McQuid, Cate. “ Still lifes with a modern twist.” Boston Globe, Arts & Reviews, June 14, 2007.
Kuspit, Donald. “ Ambiguous Nature: Mia Brownell’s Painting.” Mia Brownell: Complexities of the Garden. (Buffalo: Big Orbit Gallery, 2006)
Korsmeyer, Carolyn. “ The Paintings of Mia Brownell.” Mia Brownell: Complexities of the Garden. (Buffalo: Big Orbit Gallery, 2006)
Bendiner, Kenneth. “ Mia Brownell’s Paintings.” Mia Brownell: Complexities of the Garden. (Buffalo: Big Orbit Gallery, 2006)
Koening, Sara. “Brownell’s Garden.” University at Buffalo, The Spectrum, December 6, 2006.
Chao, Albert. “Fantasy in Realism.” Art Voice, November 29, 2006.
Newhall, Edith. “Photos at the Print Center.” The Philadelphia Inquirer, June 23, 2006.
Gouveia, Georgette. “Young & The Restless.” The Journal News, Life & Style, June 23, 2006, Cover, 8-9.
. “YEA! Young Emerging Artists: Discover the County’s Leading New Artists” Arts News, Westchester Arts Council Journal, June 2006, 8-9 .
Genocchio, Benjamin. “Indoor Freshness to Rival Gardens.” The New York Times, WE Arts & Entertainment, April 23, 2006.
McGregor, Jennifer. “Mia Brownell.” Survive, Thrive, Alive. (Bronx: Wave Hill Glyndor Gallery, 2006), 2.
. “Plant Survival On View At Wave Hill In Spring..” Antiques and The Arts Weekly, April 7, 2006.
Andrews, Jenny. “Behind the Chlorophyll.” Garden Design, March 2006.
Gouveia, Georgette. “A Circle of Art.” The Journal News, The Line, January 27 2006, 8-9.
. “Mia Brownell” Seven Degrees of Relativity (Rockland Center for the Arts, 2006)
. “SCSU artist featured in NYC solo exhibit.” , New Haven Register, Education, January 5 2006.
. “Brownell’s Life Anything But Still.” Southern Life, October 2005, 5.
. “Shifting Affinities” (New Haven: International Festival of Arts and Ideas, 2004)
Licata, Elizabeth. Big Orbit Gallery, Ten Years of Spin, (Buffalo: Big Orbit Gallery, 2002)
Birke, Judy. “Insight/Onsite”, New Haven Register, March 31, 2002.
Boyce, David B. “Artists explore patterns in BCC exhibit”, Standard-Times, February, 2002
Hoffman, Hank. “Mia Brownell; You Art What You Eat”, New Haven Advocate, October 2001,18-24.
. “Drawing Today exhibit opens at Hamden Hall.” New Haven Register, September 25, 2001, D12
Thompson, Chris. “Rumination X.” The Portland Phoenix, October 27, 2000, 20.
Brownell, Mia. Connecticut Review, 1999 & 2002 editions.
Bannon , Anthony. “Art show: 42-lb. frog, 1950 toaster, cheese noodles and cosmic mouse.” The Chautauqan Daily, August 16, 2000.
Huntington, Richard. “At home and abroad.” Buffalo News, Gusto, August 1, 2000.
Lustfeldt, Heather. “The Exhibit as Clinic at Red Chair.” Review: News Features and Art in Kansas City, January 19, 2000, 19.
Luzar, Jacqueline. “Good Art is No Illusion.” The Exponent, Arts, November 1999.
Starger, Steve. “Give in to Food Fantasies.” Journal Inquirer, Living, July 2, 1999.
Klaric, Arlette. Contemporary Constructs of Still Life (Buffalo: Burchfield-Penney Art Center,1998).
Huntington, Richard. “Everywhere at Once.” The Buffalo News, Arts & Ent , February 27, 1998.
Huntington, Richard. “Backward Glances.” The Buffalo News, January 4, 1998.
. The Inanimate: 12 Artists on Still Life Interprets a Traditional Subject, (Buffalo: Burchfield-Penney Art Center, 1997-98), 1.
. “Hazmat Alert.” San Francisco Weekly, December 1998, 3-9.
Degen Fleig, William. Our Distance Is The Danger, (San Francisc: San Francisco art Institute, 1997).
Huntington, Richard. “Body of Work, Well-thought-out still lifes that look deep inside.” The Buffalo News, Gusto, December 12, 1997, 32.
Huntington, Richard. “What’s Eating The Artist.” The Buffalo News, November 14, 1997.
. Consume(e)attain Fur, fruit or flesh. What’s your passion? (Medford, Massachusetts: Tufts Journal, Volume 18, 1997), 4.
Worden, John. “Mia Brownell”, In WNY (Buffalo: Hallwalls Inc., 1997), .3-4.
Huntington, Richard “In photo and frame, artists sing the body eclectic,” The Buffalo News, Ent., February 14, 1997.
Huntington, Richard “INSIDE STORIES, Canvases from Brownell’s body of work," The Buffalo News, May 5, 1995.
RECENT GRANTS RECEIVED:
AWARDS FROM CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY
2007 Southern Connecticut State University Board of Trustees Award for Research
2007 Connecticut State University Research Grant
2007 Research Reassigned Time, Southern Connecticut State University
2006 Connecticut State University Research Grant
2005 Connecticut State University Research Grant
2005 Sabbatical leave (ranked first in university) for Spring semester 2005
2003 Tenure and Promotion to Associate Professor
2003 Research Reassigned Time, Southern Connecticut State University
2001 - 2007 Faculty Development Grant(s), Southern Connecticut State University
SELECTED PROFESSIONAL AWARDS AND HONORS
2007 US Department of State, Art In Embassies Program.
2006 New York Foundation for the Arts Strategic Opportunity Stipend.
2006 Wave Hill Glyndor Gallery Exhibition Honorarium.
2006 Big Orbit Gallery exhibition and catalogue, funded by Andy Warhol Foundation.
2005 New York Foundation for the Arts Strategic Opportunity Stipend.
2004 Edinboro University Exhibition Honorarium.
2003 Duke University Exhibition Honorarium.
2001 Studio 4 West Gallery Artist Award.
2000 Millay Colony for the Arts Fellowship.
RESEARCH INTERESTS IN GENERAL:
Painting
CURRENT/FUTURE SPECIFIC RESEARCH PROJECTS:
Series of paintings titled “ Adventures of a Reluctant Omnivore”
EDUCATION:
MFA 1995 Painting State University of New York University, Buffalo
BFA 1993 Painting Carnegie Mellon University
Minor 1993 Ethics Carnegie Mellon University
Studied Painting Parsons School of Design, Paris
Studied Printmaking Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris
Studied Philosophy The American University of Paris
Studied Painting Maryland Institute, College of Art
Studied Dance Peabody Institute, Johns Hopkins University