Artist Biography
Art Brown of Kingsport, Tennessee is an award-winning graphic designer and artist with over 25 years of work experience in corporate and higher-education settings. He holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from East Tennessee State University and has been teaching graphic design to college students for over 12 years.

Brown’s artwork has been exhibited in numerous juried exhibits nationally and internationally, including two New Impressions exhibits at Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum in Two Rivers, Wisconsin; Linus Galleries in Los Angeles; the FL3TCH3R Exhibit at Reece Museum in Johnson City, Tennessee; Banfill-Locke Center for the Arts in Fridley, Minnesota; William King Museum of Art in Abingdon, Virginia; Artspace in Raleigh, North Carolina; the International Pavilion Gallery at Ulsan University in South Korea; Design College Australia in Brisbane; and New England Regional Art Museum in Armidale, Australia.

Description of Process
Truth Seeker 4 consists of multiple layers of ink printed on aubergine Thai Unryu paper. I don't own a large press, so all layers were printed using either a glass baren, a spoon, or—in the case of the type—lightly pressed by hand so the corners of the type would not tear the thin paper. The main robotic image was drawn and hand cut into linoleum during 2022 and printed with Speedball Supergraphic Black ink. The repeating and overlapping background type layers of violet and purple were printed from wood type set by hand on my work table and held in place using makeshift furniture taped to the tabletop. The background and texture layers of ink underneath and in-between the layers of type were rolled onto the paper using the brayer. The dots included in the background were created by placing off-brand LEGO baseplates under the paper when the ink was applied with the brayer.