Ken Brown (born March 12, 1944, Dayton, Ohio) is an American filmmaker, photographer, cartoonist, and designer. He grew up in Amherst, Massachusetts, relocated to Cambridge, Massachusetts, and currently lives in New York City. He has directed dozens of animations, experimental films, and video documentaries since the late 1960s.

Films

In 1967-69 Brown used Super 8mm to create psychedelic imagery for the light shows at the Boston Tea Party club. His animated films have been seen on AMC, MTV, VH1, and Sesame Street. A 40-year retrospective of his work was shown January 2007 at the Anthology Film Archives, which outlined Brown's extensive work in the following notes:

Art and ephemera

His artwork has been exhibited in New York, Chicago, Dallas, Seattle, Zurich, and Tokyo. He often works in collage, and many of his images lean toward surrealism. Much of his output has been marketed on postcards, T-shirts, rubber stamps, wrapping paper, mouse pads, and kitchen towels. Fine art prints have been made from his extensive collection of vintage postcards and paper ephemera. In recent years, Brown has focused on street photography, often documenting wall murals, graffiti, and other publicly visible urban art.

Goofy Garden Golf

In 2004, he teamed with urban installation artist Maria Reidelbach to create Goofy Garden Golf, a decorative miniature golf course at Pier 25 in Manhattan's Hudson River Park. The Goofy Garden featured the world's largest garden gnome, planned as a tribute to Frieda Carter, who designed the first miniature golf course at Lookout Mountain, Tennessee, in 1928.

Personal life

Brown has lived in an apartment on Harrison Street in Brooklyn since 1985 with his wife, the animator Lisa Crafts, where they raised their daughter Jemma. His apartment is filled with ephemera and small figurines from the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s.

Selected filmography

Books

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