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Vivian Browne: My Kind of Protest

Institution
The Phillips Collection
Grant Cycle
Spring 2024
Amount
$100,000
Type of Grant
Exhibition Support
Website
www.phillipscollection.org/vivian-browne-my-kind-protest ↗
Installation view, Vivian Browne: My Kind of Protest. Photo: Wes Battoclette, 2025. Image courtesy of the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH.
Vivian Browne ,Oaks, 1984. Acrylic on canvas, 61-1/2 x 144-1/4 inches total . Installation view, Vivian Browne: My Kind of Protest. Photo: Wes Battoclette, 2025. Image courtesy of the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH.
Vivian Browne, Clear Particles Floating Free, 1982. Acrylic on silk and pastel on paper, 60 x 132 inches total. Installation view, Vivian Browne: My Kind of Protest. Photo: Wes Battoclette, 2025. Image courtesy of the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH.
Installation view, Vivian Browne: My Kind of Protest. Photo: Wes Battoclette, 2025. Image courtesy of the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH.
Installation view, Vivian Browne: My Kind of Protest. Photo: Wes Battoclette, 2025. Image courtesy of the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH.
Installation view, Vivian Browne: My Kind of Protest. Photo: Wes Battoclette, 2025. Image courtesy of the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH.
Vivian Browne, : San Joaquin/Diaresis, 1992. Oil on canvas, 80 x 38 inches. Installation view, Vivian Browne: My Kind of Protest. Photo: Wes Battoclette, 2025. Image courtesy of the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH.

Co-organized by the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati and The Phillips Collection, the exhibition draws upon previously unknown works and archival findings, recovering the depth and variety of the more than three-decade career of Vivian Browne (b. 1929, Laurel, FL; d. 1993, New York, NY). The exhibition features paintings, prints, and works on paper across seven bodies of work, as well as ephemera that highlight Browne’s pioneering activism and influential teaching career. Browne was a founder of the Black Emergency Cultural Coalition, an organization that fought for Black representation in New York museums; a founder of SoHo20, one of the first women’s art cooperatives in Manhattan; and a professor at Rutgers University (1971–92). Her signature approach to color and form challenged the neatly defined categories of abstraction and figuration, and art and politics, revealing a more nuanced approach to art-making that is part of Browne’s unique contribution to 20th-century art of the US.

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The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Announces Its Spring 2024 Grantees

27 June 2024

“The terrific range of project proposals we receive each year speaks to the mobile and porous disciplinary boundaries of contemporary art practice, and to the rich and inventive ways writers approach art today. They are alert to the urgent need to expand the conventions of art history and criticism with ideas from other discourses, such as black studies, transnational and diaspora studies, gender and women’s studies, and LGBT studies. The work of lesser known and overlooked artists and art communities continues to be mined, with writers articulating new ways to counter the striking imbalances of race, class and gender that continue to affect the arts and the culture industry.”

Pradeep Dalal, Program Director,  The Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant

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