Pure Vision Arts
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Susan Brown

Susan Brown was born in 1957 in Copiague, New York and for many years has lived in Sayville, New York. Diagnosed with autism as a young child, she began drawing spirals, women and cars at the age of five and was encouraged by her father, an engineer, her mother, a chemist, and her aunt, a sculptor. Brown first painted her characteristic grid like drawings on cardboard in the 1980’s while working as a dishwasher at Friendly’s where cardboard packing was readily available. Her work reflects her eclectic interests in portraiture, transportation and landscapes and is drawn from her prodigious memory of growing up on Long Island.

Brown has been featured on a CBS Sunday Morning show segment on Outsider Art, and in publications such as Envision Folk Art Magazine and Out of Art. She has been attending the Pure Vision Arts studio weekly since its inception in 2002. Always a popular artist at outsider exhibitions both at home and abroad, her paintings and drawings are included in numerous corporate and private collections.

2017
24th Annual Outsider Art Fair, Metropolitan Pavilion, NYC

 2016
Birds of a Feather, Pure Vision Arts, NYC
Outsider Art Fair Gallery Olof, Paris
Visions et Créations Dissidentes, Musée de la Création Franche, Begles, France
Outsider Art Inside the Beltway, Art Enables, Washington, DC
Visions from the Edge, Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Brattleboro, VT
Visionary Streetscapes, City Reliquary Museum, Brooklyn, NY.
24th Annual Outsider Art Fair, Metropolitan Pavilion, NYC
The Next Stop is Marnix Street, SPeerpunt de Kunst Museum, Leiden, Netherlands

2015
BEAUTIFUL MINDS pure vision, ROCA, West Nyack, NY
Somoza Palooza, Metropolitan West, NYC
On the Outside Looking In/Outsider Self Taught Art from the U.S. and Europe
Ridgefield Public Library, CT
23rd Annual Outsider Art Fair, Center 548, NYC

2014
Museum Acquisition, MADmusée, Belgium
Savant-Garde, Pure Vision Arts, NYC
Clifford Chance Law Firm, NYC
Public Access: Selections from Pure Vision Arts, The Gallery at Ace Hotel NY, NYC
Lion King – Autism Friendly Performance, Minscoff Theater, NYC
 Any Colour You Like It, Weird Days, Brooklyn, NY
Al Fresco, LWR Fine Art, NYC
Outsider Art Fair 2014, Center 548, NYC
Transit on the Spectrum: The Art of Pure Vision, The New York Transit Museum, NYC
Drawing Autism, Pure Vision Arts, NYC

2013
Outsider Art Inside the Beltway, Art Enables, Washington, DC
Personal Space, Pure Vision Arts, NYC
Outsider Art Fair, Center 548, NYC

2012
Pure Folk, American Folk Art Museum, NYC
20th Annual Outsider Art Fair, The Mart, NYC
Visions from the Edge, MCLA, Gallery 51, North Adams, MA

2011
Innocence & Experience, Pure Vision Arts, NYC
Outsider Art Inside the Beltway, Art Enables, Washington, DC
Aeroplanes, Balloons and Traffic, Olof Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
6th Annual Outsider Art in The Hamptons, Galerie BelAge, Westhampton, NY

2010
Labor of Love, Pure Vision Arts, NYC
Art from the Inside Out, Visceglia Gallery @ Caldwell College, New Jersey
Pure Vision Arts @ JBFCS, NYC
5th Annual Outsider Art in the Hamptons, Galerie BelAge, Westhampton, NY.
Great Expectations, PS122 Gallery, NYC
Outsider Art Fair, NYC
What is Disability, VSA Arts, Washington, DC
Drawing Autism, Book Release Art Exhibition, NYC
Outside Hers, Olof Gallery, The Netherlands

2009
Paradise Found, Pure Vision Arts, NYC
Puzzle Pieces, Artists with Autism, Smooth and Purdy Gallery, Los Angeles,CA
The Pure Vision Arts Connection, Gallerie Olof, Leiden, The Netherlands
A Stroke of Genius, the United Nations, NYC
Pure Vision Arts at Marlborough Gallery, NYC
Heroes for Autism, The Avalon, Hollywood, CA
4th Annual Outsider Art in the Hamptons, Gallerie BelAge,
Westhampton Beach, NY
Outsider Art Fair, The Mart, NYC

2008
Group Exhibition – Olof Gallery, Leiden, The Netherlands
Modern Primitive, Pure Vision Arts, NYC
Pure Vision Arts @ JBFCS, NYC
Pure Vision Arts at Marlborough Chelsea, NYC.
Don’t Dis the Ability, The Work of the Autistic Savant, United Nations, NYC
Outsider Art Fair, Puck Building, NYC
European Outsider Art Fair, Vienna, Austria

2007
City Folk, Pure Vision Arts, NYC
Colorful World, Galerie Herenplaats, Rotterdam,The Netherlands
Pure Vision Arts at Marlborough Gallery, NYC
Urban Visionaries. Pure Vision Arts. NYC
Take Another Look Outside. Van Der Plas Gallery. NYC
15th Annual Outsider Art Fair, Puck Building, NYC

2006
Bestiary. Van Der Plas Gallery. NYC
Pure Vision Arts at Marlborough Chelsea. NYC
Pure Vision Arts. NYC
The 14th Annual Outsider Art Fair, The Puck Building, NYC

2005
Pure Visionaries:Artists on the Spectrum,
Cooper Union Great Hall Gallery, NYC
Art/View, City Museum of Washington, D.C.
Museum of American Folk Art, Spring Benefit and Art Auction, NYC
Pure Visions in the City, Pure Vision Arts, NYC
13th Annual Outsider Art Fair, NYC
Art, Autism, Aspergersm, Ricco Maresca Gallery, NYC

2004
Women’s Work is Never Done, Lower East Side Girls Club Gallery, NYC
Art View – The Carnegie Institute, Washington, DC
The 12th Annual Outsider Art Fair. Puck Building, NY

2003
Pure Vision Arts Gallery, NYC
The Affordable Art Fair, NYC
The 11th Annual Outsider Art Fair, NYC
Art View – The Carnegie Institute, Washington DC
Pure Vision Arts Exhibition Credit Suisse First Boston, , NYC

2002
Nurturing the New at NURTUREart, NYC

See Exhibition History

Her Mother

Mixed Media on Canvas, 36 x 48, 2015

Her Mother

Mixed Media on Canvas, 36 x 72, 2016

Her Mother

Mixed Media on Canvas, 13 x 17, 2016

Rockefeller Center

Mixed Media on Canvas, 24 x 30, 2017

Statue of Liberty

Mixed Media on Canvas, 30 x 48, 2017

Washington Square

Mixed Media on Canvas, 16 x 20, 2016

Women on the Beach

Mixed Media on Cardboard, 18 x 24, 2013

7train

Mixed media on wood, 2013

Taxis

Mixed media on wood, 2013

Parents at the Beach

Mixed Media on Cardboard, 13.5″x15.5″, 2013

Breakfast Table

Mixed Media on Cardboard, 12.5″x18.5″, 2013

Taxis

Acrylic on Canvas, 16″x20″, 2012

Teachers and Advisors

Mixed Media on Cardboard, 2012

Times Square

Acrylic on Wood, 14″x18″, 2012

Her Mother

Mixed Media on Cardboard, 2012

Her Family

Mixed Media on Canvas, 2010