Video and photo montage artist Robert E. Brown always pushes the visual envelope to it’s breaking point with his strobing image overload videos and overwhelming photo montage prints. His work has been known to induce panic attacks in gallery viewers.

Brown graduated from the University of New Mexico with a BFA and a background in printmaking in 1999 with a focus on etchings, monotypes and multi media print work.

While in New Mexico he was a contributor for of THE BLANK, a Dada & Surrealist inspired zine which focused on automatic writing, word salad experiments and punk angst filled rhetoric. During this time he was also an early member of the Basement Films collective. A group of guerilla film enthusiasts who collaborated and created intense audio/visual environments from 8-mm film in galleries, at raves and in random public spaces.

In Philadelphia he was a member of the Black Family collective, a small group assembled for  collaboration and critique. For several years he was a primary operational member of the well established Muse Gallery. Brown was also the founder, director and driving force behind the now defunct Family of Shame subversive arts conglomerate, a juried collective that held non-traditional art shows and performances from 2002-2005.

Brown has shown nationally including solo exhibits in Philadelphia, New York and group exhibits in Philadelphia, New York, Washington D.C., Albuquerque and Tallahassee. His work is in several collections. In 2006 he completed his monumental Mind is Meat is Machine project, a huge 8′x12′ triptych containing 28,000 photographs. He was a visiting artist guest lecturer at Konstfack University in Stockholm Sweden in 2007.

2008 he was the the focus of a documentary style reality show pilot which he conceived of and co-produced. Brown is currently launching his new brainchild, the Swellco & Swellco Video Circus. An over the top indie culture site that also mixes original video, media hoaxes and subtle fictional narratives to create a very original experience.