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Date: SATURDAY, 16 SEPT. 1995
There has been more than one showing of our artist in residence. But this is the most important one. Taken from the Atlanta Journal and Constitution.
 Painting Sale |
 Painting Sale |
 Painting Sale |
“A LUCKY BREAK” Artist HAS FIRST EXHIBITION AT ST. EDWARD’S
Atlanta Journal and Constitution News Article Date: SATURDAY, SEPT. 16 1995
By Celia Sibley
“Lawrenceville resident Cri-One Aka Chris Brown, 20, was a senior not long ago at Central Gwinnett High School. Now he is a full-time painter getting ready for his first exhibition.
Brown’s works will be on display from Sunday through Nov. 18 at the art gallery of St. Edward’s Episcopal Church in Lawrenceville, one of the few galleries offered by a church in metro Atlanta.
Brown and the artist who oversees the gallery, Mikki Dillon, an active member of the Georgia Pastel Society, plan to hang between 15 to 20 of his works today so that they will be ready to greet church goers Sunday morning. Each of the paintings in the Brown exhibition is an abstract in his favorite medium — spray paint.
The young artist is mostly self-taught, having quit his studies at the Atlanta College of Art to devote himself to painting full time in his studio at his parents’ home. In addition to painting, he has written a book, “I Love You,” which relates his theories of how art and life exist.
He is getting a break that many people in the art community would “turn handsprings” to get, Dillion said. “For the past several years St. Edward’s Gallery has been a showcase for well-known and not-yet-well-known Gwinnett artists,” she said. “Some of them are members of the congregation but that is never a requirement.” The Gwinnett Visual Artists Association once used the room for meetings and as exhibit space.”
mostly self-taught
although my favorite teacher was a woman named Susan Harlan
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