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STATEMENT
Grant M Brownlow utilizes industrially derived imagery, layered in collage-like compositions to explore ideas of influence, containment within experiences, and decay through continued repetition of ideas or forms. The elements within his work are derived from personal influence including manufacturing environments, automotive racetracks, and objects which are repeated or mass-produced. These images are often created utilizing printmaking techniques such as aerosol stencils and silkscreen which originated in industrial manufacturing settings and mirror the state of our heavily industrialized world.
Grant’s main interest lies in the construction or deconstruction of influences, their origins, meanings and the resulting effects on us as people, places, and cultures. This work confronts how these influences are passed and recycled through both people and the cultural or physical environments we inhabit. These influences are inherited from those before us and in-turn passed onto future generations, causing gradual deformations through time and repetition. These distortions caused by repetition push ourselves and our environments to degrees which are structurally unsustainable and culturally incompatible. This repetition causes the decay of ideas, values, people and places, calling attention to unsustainable industrial and economic growth, and the distorting nature of our influences and resulting identities.
BIO
Grant M. Brownlow is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily in printmaking and mixed media paintings. Grant was raised in Grand Rapids, Michigan where he was heavily influenced by the industrial landscape of the Midwestern United States. During this time Grant was fully immersed in the culture of automotive track racing and in the automotive manufacturing industry. Grant studied Studio Art at Albion college after which he continued to create work while living in Detroit, Michigan. Grant is currently continuing his education by pursuing a Masters of Fine Arts at Purdue University focusing on printmaking and painting.
EXHIBITIONS/SHOWS/COMMISSIONS
Exhibitions;
2022 - Sleek: The Art of the Helmet, Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum, Indianapolis IN (forthcoming)
2022 - Art in the Fast Lane, Gallery Forty-Two, Indianapolis, IN
2021 - Go Make a Thing group exhibition, ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL , Juror: Jessica Gondek, Associate Professor, Loyola University
2021 - ‘Techspressionism 2021’ group exhibition, Techspressionism
2021 - BLINK – One Night Only Art Show two person exhibition, Brew Detroit, Detroit, MI
2021 - Art in The Fast Lane group exhibition, Vestige Concept Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
2021 - Open Call 2021 group exhibition, BlackBox, Dearborn, MI
2021 - 35th West Michigan Art Competition group exhibition, LowellArts, Lowell, MI
2020 - Send It Collaborative group exhibition, Hard Gallery, Detroit, MI
2019 - Art Buddies Vol. 12 group exhibition, Hard Gallery, Detroit, MI
Juried Portfolios;
2022 - Optical Impermanence juried portfolio, SGCI, Madison, WI
Juror: Jennifer Scheuer, Assistant Professor, Purdue University
2022 - Our Shared Future, 2022 Membership Portfolio Exchange, SGCI, Madison, WI
2022 - Seven Deadly Sins: Envy, portfolio exhibition, Frogman’s Print Workshops, Omaha, NE (forthcoming)
EDUCATION
2015 BA from Albion College
2024 (upcoming) MFA from Purdue University
AWARDS/DISTINCTIONS
2022 Delta Phi Delta Scholarship, Purdue University,
2022 West Lafayette, IN
2022 Frogman’s Printmaking Workshop Assistantship, Omaha, NE
2022 Anderson Ranch Merit-Based Scholarship, Snowmass Village, CO
2021 Purdue Promise Grant, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
2021 Honorable Mention, 2021 Gilda Snowden Memorial Exhibition, Scarab Club, Detroit, MI
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2021-Present Instructor – Fundamentals Drawing at Purdue University,
West Lafayette, IN
2021-Present Printshop Studio Technician at Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
ARTIST'S TAGS
Abstract, Automotive, Industrial, Collage, Mixed Media, Printmaking, Large Paintings