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Lenore Browne
Solo Exhibits
Whittaker Photo Gallery, Educational Alliance Art School, 197 East Broadway, NYC “Portrait of Harlem” December 8, 2010- January 20, 2011
Hamilton Grange Branch, New York Public Library, 503 W. 145th Street, NYC “Portrait of Harlem” November 8 – 30, 2010.
Countee Cullen Branch, New York Public Library, 104 W. 136th Street, NYC “Portrait of Harlem” October 6 - 28, 2010.
George Bruce Branch, New York Public Library, 518 W. 125th Street, NYC “Portrait of Harlem” September 1- 30, 2010
Harlem Arts Alliance, 229 W. 135th Street, NYC “Portrait of Harlem” June 15 - August 27, 2010.
Café One, 1619 Amsterdam Avenue, Harlem, NYC, May/June 2009.
Juried Competition
Pen and Brush Gallery, 16 E.10th Street, NYC “Contemporary Expressions” May/ June 2009, curated by Daile Kaplan, Vice President and Director of Photographs of the Swann Galleries.
Group Exhibitions and Events
Community League on the Heights, C.L.O.T.H.E., 2113b Amsterdam Avenue, NYC, September 1 through October 31, 2011.
2011 Strivers Art Circuit, October 7-9, 2011 @ Shrine, 2271 Adam Clayton Powell Blvd, NYC through October 17, 2011.
Harlem Fine Arts Show, Riverside Church, NYC, February 25-27, 2011
2010 Harlem Art Walking Tour, Casa Frela Gallery, 47 W. 119th Street, NYC, October 9 –10, 2010, Caffe Latte, 189 Lenox Avenue, NYC.
2010 Strivers Art Circuit, Harlem Walking Art Tour, October 9 – 10, 2010, Children’s Art Carnival, 62 Hamilton Terrace, NYC.
Summer Youth Photography Workshop, Children’s Art Carnival and Harlem Textile Works, August 16- 20, 2010
Harlem Week, Harlem Arts Alliance Gallery, August 14 - 15, 2010.
1st Annual Harlem Arts Alliance, International Arts Event, March 19, 2010 “Harlem: Our Shared Global Culture” group video.
H&M Art Gallery, 17 E. 125th Street, NYC, Straight 7 Arts Show, November-December, 2009.
Ernest Rubenstein Gallery, Educational Alliance, “Out of the Studios” June/July 2009; June/July 2007.
Award
January 12, 2011: “Arts and Action Award” from the Harlem Arts Alliance for “Outstanding efforts to increase awareness through the arts.”
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Manhattan Community Arts Fund Grant, Winter 2010.
Harlem Community Arts Fund Grant, spring 2010, Youth Photography and Printmaking Workshop.
Harlem Community Arts Fund Grant, winter 2009, Artist Development
BIO
Lenore Browne, native New Yorker, has resided in Harlem over 30 years. Upon graduation from high school, she purchased her first manual film camera and was briefly introduced to the magic of the darkroom. Although Lenore continued her education to receive business degrees, her passion lies with the black and white images she visualizes, captures and prints in a traditional wet darkroom. In 2007, Browne committed to her artistic pursuits and returned to the darkroom to create archival black and white prints.
Browne uses the camera to capture and create beautiful, romantic, and majestic images in urban and natural environments that often remain unnoticed in today’s fast-paced lifestyle. In the first attempt to publically display her photographs, Browne’s “Life Lines” was selected in a juried competition at the Pen and Brush Gallery, in Greenwich Village, NYC, by curator Daile Kaplan, Vice President and Director of Photographs of the Swann Galleries, for the "Contemporary Expressions" exhibit in May through June 2009. During that same time, Browne curated her own debut solo exhibit at Café One in Harlem, NYC, where she exhibited a selection of her landscape and urban landscape photographs.
Browne’s current body of work called “Portrait of Harlem” and “Harlem Stroll” documents her Harlem neighborhood which she considers a work-in-progress to present and preserve the image history of Harlem in this transitional time coined the “second renaissance.” Her photographs capture Harlem’s essence and record aspects of its past that are still present at this time. She believes that it is urgent to photograph Harlem at the cusp of its transition before it is lost forever.
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