b.brown is a sculptural ceramic artist currently working and residing in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. brown grew up in Los Angeles, CA and New York City, NY, in the highly creative, bohemian household of her AfroCuban-Caribbean born father and Irish-American mother, in which the unique fusion of diverse influences encouraged and fostered her artistic curiosity.

When brown turned her attention to clay, she found her love of honing technique and somatic feedback led to an innate understanding of the material - and a compulsion to know it more exhaustively. Clay affords her a means to explore form while inciting interplay and tension between such dichotomies as methodology and abandon, refinement and elaboration, balance and asymmetry.

^{In 2024 brown was granted her first solo exhibition, was an attending artist at the School of Visual Arts Sculpture Residency in New York, and gained representation at Hecho A Mano Gallery in Santa Fe. 2025 carries forward and expands the signature language of former work to bring a new bodies of sculpture to completion.}

education

2007

2004

1992, 2000 - 2001

1998

1989 - 1991

OTIS COLLEGE OF ART + DESIGN, Los Angeles, CA

LA MERIDIANA CERAMIC INSTITUTE, Tuscany, ITALY

THE CLAYHOUSE, Santa Monica, CA

SANTA MONICA COLLEGE, Santa Monica, CA
GODDARD COLLEGE, Montpelier, VT

professional experience

1989 - Present
2018 - Present
2016 - 2017
2014 - 2016
2013 - 2015
2007 - 2008
2006 - 2009
2000 - 2001
1999 - 2002
1991 - 1993
1989 - 1991STUDIO PRACTICE + PRODUCTION OF FINE ART/FUNCTIONAL CERAMICS + GLASSWARE, Various
FABRICATOR, STUDIO + PROJECT MANAGER, GRAPHICS, Artman Productions, Santa Fe, NM
DINNERWARE PRODUCTION + STUDIO MANAGER, Jack Charney Earthenware Ceramics, Santa Fe, NM
DINNERWARE PRODUCTION + STUDIO ASSISTANT, Irving Place Studio, Los Angeles, CA
ART TEACHER + PROJECT COORDINATIOR, Collective Voices Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
CERAMIC ART TEACHER, Ocean Charter School, Venice, CA
PRODUCTION DESIGNER + CO-OWNER treeo design, New Paltz, NY
GLAZE LAB TECHNICIAN + MURAL GLAZER, Malibu Ceramic Works, Topanga, CA
ARTIST MEMBER, SALES, BOOKKEEPING, 10 Women Cooperative Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
DINNERWARE PRODUCTION + STUDIO ASSISTANT, Luna García, Venice, CA
STUDIO MANAGER + TEACHING ASSISTANT Goddard College Ceramics Studio, Montpelier, VT

exhibitions

2025
2024
2024
2024
SOLO SHOW: Rondo, Hecho A Mano Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
GROUP SHOW: Spatial Intimacies, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
GROUP SHOW: Honoring Garth Clark + Mark Del Vecchio, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston, TX
SOLO SHOW: A Handful of Earth, A Handful of Sky, Hecho A Mano Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

residencies

2024

SCULPTURE, INSTALLATION + NEW MEDIA ART, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY

representation

2024

HECHO A MANO GALLERY, Santa Fe, NM, USA

b.brown

Info

projects: ❶ RONDO ❷ SPATIAL INTIMACIES ❸ A HANDFUL OF EARTH, A HANDFUL OF SKY ❹ extras ❺ etcetera

projects: ❶ RONDO ❷ SPATIAL INTIMACIES
❸ A HANDFUL OF EARTH, A HANDFUL OF SKY
❹ extras ❺ etcetera