Artist's Lecture: Iona Rozeal Brown November 16, 2006

The UA Museum of Art invites you to an artist's lecture by Iona Rozeal Brown, whose paintings are currently on exhibit at UAMA. This event will take place at the Center for Creative Photography Auditorium. Admission is free and open to the public.

Iona Rozeal Brown paints figures in a style inspired by traditional Japanese woodblock prints and radically transforms them through an overlay of hip-hop style. This ongoing project, entitled "a3" (afro-asiatic allegory), emerged from the artist's 2001 encounter with the Japanese phenomenon of “ganguro”, where teenage girls adopt aspects of African-American culture and fashion, including darkened skin and highly-styled hair.

Her distinctive work combines a layering of textures, forms and colors in flat, patterned paintings on paper. Her paintings feature figures with dangling cornrows, prominent afros, and the high-bling markers of Black American hip-hop iconography.

Born in Washington, D.C. in 1966, Iona Rozeal Brown earned a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and an MFA from Yale University in 2002. Brown has had solo exhibitions in Los Angeles, Atlanta, Miami, San Francisco, New York and Washington, D.C. Her work was featured in "Black Belt" at the Studio Museum in Harlem, in "New Visions: Emerging Trends in African American Art" at the Smithsonian, and "a3: black on both sides", at Spelman College in Atlanta.

For more information, contact UAMA at 520-621-7567

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