Casey Lance Brown
OSGF
Interdisciplinary Residency, Two-Week, Session II
Casey Lance Brown is a landscape futurist who studied at Duke University, Harvard Design School, and is a fellow of the American Academy in Rome. Through field research, geospatial analysis and alternative capture techniques, he maps the accidental terraforming of the Anthropocene era. Infrared imagery, data visualization and temporal composites highlight the vast imprints of geotrauma on the planet. His works have been awarded by American Academy in Rome (2011), Photoville’s The Fence (2016), and Lenscratch (2024). His series have been exhibited @ the Contemporary Museum of Art in Raleigh, @ Miami Art Week (2022), and in the Fifth National Climate Assessment for the US Global Research Program (2023-24). Brown publishes work on landscape futures in various outlets such as Volume, LA+ SPECULATION, and KERB Journal of Landscape Architecture.
Decay, abandonment, toxic legacies and the fallout of past environmental failures erupt in the foreground in my digital and analog paintings. Built from a base of intensive research, my series juxtapose something highly foreign with the native, something technological with the organic, and/or something extant with the extinct. The contrasts help interrogate how we arrived at our current geotraumatic state.
Brown also has served as an art and design critic at various universities including MIT, Harvard Design School, Clemson University, University of Tennessee, Aarhus University (DN) and the Oslo School of Architecture and Design.