Deborah Brown is an artist and curator in New York City who works in Bushwick, Brooklyn. She received her BA from Yale University and her MFA from Indiana University.

She has had solo shows at Art3, Lesley Heller, Flecker Gallery, Active Space and an upcoming solo at Geary Contemporary next year. She’s had over sixty group exhibitions including Mike Weiss, BravinLee, Life on Mars, Odetta, Lu Magnus, the Islip Art Museum, Jeff Bailey and many others.

Her work has been covered in Artnet, ArtNews, the Wall Street Journal, the L Magazine, the New York Times and several other publications.

Seven years ago Deborah founded Storefront Bushwick, a Brooklyn gallery dedicated to showing emerging artist’s work along with revisiting the work of established artists. The gallery ran until recently and helped launch the careers of many young artists in Brooklyn. She has long been a pioneer and advocate for artists and the arts in Bushwick.

Brian met up with Deborah at her Bushwick studio and we talked about her early days in school, her move to New York in the eighties, running an artist-run space and her approach to painting over the years.