Michael Brown
15 Lafayette Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
Born: 1961 - Riverside, CA
SELECTED WORKS
1997
Sensitive Chaos - Art + Science
Group Exhibition
NTT InterCommunication Center, Tokyo, Japan
What Once Was
Public Art Commission for the Montclair Village
City of Oakland, Oakland, CA
1996
1996 Swatch Christmas Special
Watch design for Swatch
A Single Drop
Water installation for “Turbulant Landscapes
The Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA
Three Freestanding Sculptural Clocks
Public Commissions for a light rail system
Dallas Area Rapid Transit, Dallas, Texas
1995
Go Girl! The Pinball Machine
Interactive multimedia game shown at:
“Obsession,” Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Wild Side,” LACE, Los Angeles, CA
Set Design
Heading South by Brian Thorenson
Studio Theater, San Francisco, CA
1994
13,468
Installation, “Rooms for the Dead”
Center for the Arts, Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco, CA
Full Automatic Bong
Sculpture, “The Bong Show”
KIKI Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1993
Steam Locomotive
Interactive Exhibit
Long Island Children's Museum, Northport, NY
Einstein’s Theory of Relativity
Installation, “Science Fair”
Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Meanderings
Interactive sculptural exhibit, “Environmental Art at The Exploratorium”
The Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA
1992
Copper Aqueduct
A collabration with Landscape designer Chris Jacobson
Life Center Garden, San Francisco, CA
Anguish Our Losses
Installation, “Inductive Strategies”
New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
Interactive Kinetic Sculpture
A month long collabration with museum visitors
Bay Area Discovery Museum, Sausalito, CA
1991
Fountain #23
Commissioned sculpture
Thal Ginsberg Residence, Mill Valley, CA
Discovery
Interactive Sign
Bay Area Discovery Museum, Sausalito, CA
1990
Cascading Steps
Installation
Secession Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Group Show
Installation
FOURFIVEFIVETENTH, San Francisco, CA
1989
Walt?
Installation
New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
Plumbers Nightmare
Sculpture
A Different Light, San Francisco, CA
MINDSET
Installation/Curator
FOURFIVEFIVETENTH, San Francisco, CA
Residences, Grants and Awards
1996-Current Southern Exposure Curatorial Committee
1992, 1996- The Exploratorium
1995- Sanchez School
1994- San Francisco Arts Commission Cultural Equity Grant
1993- The Bay Area Discovery Museum
1992- New Langton Arts Interdisciplinary Arts Grant
Education
Humboldt State University, BA 1985
Bibliography (*reviews)
Animal ghosts in Oakland hills*
Laura Counts, Oakland Tribune, April 26, 1997
Small Wonder
Alicia Rodriguez, Landscape Architecture, September, 1996
Free-form 'sculptures'*
Anita Amirrezvani, Contra Costa Times, July 12, 1996
Dart Art*
Dennis Vercher, Dallas Voice, June 14, 1996
Station Art and Design Program
Dallas Area Rapid Transit, A Celebration of Community, June 1996
Obsessions
A magnificent ‘Obsession’ show *
Obsession Engulfs Southern Exposure *
A Curious Alliance: The Role of Art in a Science Museum
Where Art Meets Science
Earth Art at Exploratorium
Wierd Science
Force of Nature *
You can touch this
It's a wild and wacky sculpture... *
Inductive Strategies at New Langton Arts,
Experimentation *
Garden Gallery
Interior Destinations *
Anything goes: ... *
Harry Roche,
San Francisco Bay Guardian, Dec 6, 1995
David Bonetti, San Francisco Examiner, Nov 30, 1995
Jeffery Winter, San Francisco Bay Times, Nov 30,1995
Ellen Klages, The Exploratorium, 1994
Tessa DeCarlo, Wall Street Journal, July 26, 1993
David Perlman, San Francisco Chronicle, May 13, 1993
Jolene Thyme, Oakland Tribune, May 29,1993
Roberto Friedman, Bay Area Reporter, May 6, 1993
Dan Fost, Marin Independent Journal, Sept 6, 1992
Tina Bournazos, Marin Scope, Aug 25, 1992
Alfred Jan, Visions, Fall 1992
Mark Bartlett, Artweek, April 23,1992
Ramona Gonzales, Northern California Home and Garden, December 1991
Terri Cohn, Artweek, August 30, 1990
Mark Mardon, San Francisco Sentinal, April 3, 1987