Episode Ten - Bentley Brown

In this episode, I chat with Bentley Brown a multidisciplinary artist, curator, and educator at the Parsons School of Design. His research focuses on the role of Black artists and creative spaces in New York City’s contemporary art movements from the late 1960s to the mid-1980s. His 2019 exhibition, "Frederick J. Brown: Dreams and the Possibility Of...," explored his father’s concept of dreams and the American Dream, analyzing motifs and fictional characters to highlight tensions between self, myth, and home. Brown holds a master's degree in African Studies from University College London. His artistic practice, influenced by African American cultural production, abstract and figurative expressionism, and the desert landscape of Phoenix, uses canvas, found objects, photo-collage, and film to explore themes of Black identity, cosmology, and American interculturalism..

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