Roger Brown American, 1941-1997

Roger Brown was a prominent American painter associated with the Chicago Imagists, a group of artists who gained recognition in the 1960s and 1970s for their distinctively surreal and often humorous approach to figurative art. Brown’s paintings, rooted in memory and personal experience, often feature eerily dreamlike atmospheres where ordinary settings conceal hidden mysteries and covert symbolism.

While much of Brown's work is rooted in the depiction of suburban landscapes it is not a celebration of suburban life, rather a critique and commentary on the conformist and consumer-driven nature of suburban America, suggesting that beneath the seemingly ordinary suburban facade lay a sense of isolation, alienation, and existential questioning.

Brown throughout his career often depicted natural disasters and events that would rock our culture and our environment.  In his paintings he chronicles both his personal experience with them and his own commentary and yet includes us and how we as a people experience them in the broader realm of lives in America.