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‘Slave Trails’ high-tech art display marks where some slaves were sold in French Quarter Brown’s digital ghosts are a startling pink color, like radioactive azalea blossoms. BY DOUG MACCASH | STAFF WRITER JUN 21, 2022 - 3:30 PM
New Orleans artist unveils augmented reality slavery trail exhibit
Slave sounds: Brown's 'Machine Noire' paints story of enslaved Americans VICTOR ANDREWS JUN 17, 2022 - 11:30 AM
‘HUMS’ combines both visual art and music through the sculptures hands-on components. “To me, it adds a layer of like soulfulness to a project, you know. Like it’s great to have visual things, but this
The piece had to be redesigned, to work without patrons touching the surface, in the wake of coronavirus.
"Brown's work is hard to describe. Using projections from paint brushes rigged with tiny camera lenses, drawing pads that act like electronic drum heads, and other ingenious inventions, Brown blends aggressive action-painting with abstract music like a bebop Jackson Pollock." DOUG MACCASH
Brown's striking image of St. Peter Claver, a 17th-century Jesuit priest who ministered to slaves, gazes mercifully downward toward a chained man at his feet. Kneeling, with his wrists raised, the slave figure adds dynamic angles as well as a sense of pathos to the composition. The statue stands near the street corner, outside of the church walls.
"Avant-garde artist, educator, inventor and musician Marcus Brown released Peinture Concrete. But this danceable, heavily synthesized and jazz-infused album wasn’t made in the traditional sense." -LISA DALIET OffBeat Magazine
Brown might just be the only painter in America today who legitimately hopes that people will dance to his paintings."- JOE NICKELL of the Missoulian
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