Jubal Brown

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Jubal Brown is a video producer and multi-media artist based in Toronto, Canada who gained notoriety in 1996 when he deliberately vomited in color on paintings at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto.[1]

Brown's target at MoMA was Piet Mondrian's Composition With Red and Blue, which he targeted in order to counteract the piece's lifelessness.[2]. At the Art Gallery of Ontario he targeted Raoul Dufy's Harbor at Le Havre with red. It is believed he'd planned a yellow attack, which he never carried out although he wasn't charged with the vandalism in New York and Toronto. [3] Although the museum officials at the MoMA initially believed his action to be an accident, Brown later admitted that he viewed his actions as artistic. [4]

Six years after Brown's own actions and during his tenure as co-director of the Ontario College of Art & Design student union gallery, the gallery was attacked and nearly destroyed by a group of frenzied students. When asked whether he thought their actions were an artistic expression or simply drunken, out-of-control mayhem, Brown questioned whether there was any difference and deemed the exhibit successful.[5]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Anthony DePalma (1996-12-08). No Stomach for Art. The New York Times. Retrieved on 2008-02-13.
  2. ^ John Lind (2008-01-31). Unlucky 13. The Taipei Times. Retrieved on 2008-02-13.
  3. ^ Mia Fineman (2004-12-12). Art Attacks. The New York Times. Retrieved on 2008-02-13.
  4. ^ Anthony DePalma (1996-12-04). Student Says Vomiting on Painting Was an Artistic Act. The New York Times. Retrieved on 2008-02-13.
  5. ^ Jen McNeely (2002-11-28). Ripping up the Joint. Now Toronto. Retrieved on 2008-02-13.
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