2nd Annual Winter Painting Demo By Jackson Brown

NEW YORK (Jackson Brown Official Website) - Jackson Brown is once again planning to hit the bricks and paint. At noon on Saturday, March 11, the artist will place a six-foot-square canvas on the sidewalk outside of the Eyejammie Fine Arts Gallery and undertake a hip-hop era update of "The Rape of the Sabine Women." The gallery is located in Chelsea at 516 W.25th Street, between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues.

Brown believes that Poussin's massive masterpiece, painted in 1633/34, has a contemporary resonance. "My interest is in exploring beef in hip-hop - that moment when the competitive spirit crosses the line into foolishness," says the Queens-born, Brooklyn-based artist.

An exhibit of Brown's work entitled "Follow the Leader: Portraits of the Hip-Hop Avant-Garde" debuted at Eyejammie on February 4, 2005. Two weeks later Brown took to the streets to paint a large portrait of the rapper Kool G Rap entitled "Black Jesus." The weather that day was marked by a bright blue sky and temperatures in the twenties. Despite the cold the street was thronged with gallery-goers, many of whom stopped to chat with – or take photos of – Brown at work.

A month later Brown once again set up shop in front of the gallery. This time he painted a huge portrait of Queens native LL Cool J. These sessions comprised an illuminating demonstration of "how it's done" in a neighborhood in which the finished product is all one normally sees. Both paintings are available for viewing on the Eyejammie website:
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