Transforming himself from backwater miscreant to closet human, Mark Brown resumed painting after a brief career as a photographer. Among his grants and scholarships are the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, the Artists Fellowship, the Vermont Studio Center, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Kent State University. He was a finalist for a National Endowment for the Arts grant in painting. He has worked with galleries and art dealers in New York, Atlanta, Santa Monica, Philadelphia, Charlotte, Winston-Salem, Raleigh and Chapel Hill. He taught at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Kentucky State University and the Waterworks
Visual Arts Center. He saws and splits dead trees for firewood to heat his passive solar home, practicing Zen meditation and the martial art Kajukenbo daily. He lives and works outside Chapel Hill, NC with his wife, artist Cathy Kiffney.
