Royal G. Brown Jr

Royal Brown Artist Bio Royal is as much a shaman and mystic as an artist. Growing up with his father, art director in the Office of General Services for the state of New York. He was mentored from an early age, experimenting with pastels, oil, and acrylic paints, and with early efforts in sculpture. He earned a BA in fine arts from SUNY Albany in 1995.He then began to pursue gallery showings including the Knott Gallery at the Schenectady Museum, Hudson Valley Community College and the NYS Bi-Annual exhibit. Currently he works out of his studio at the Albany Barn and continues to show at various area venues. He also began to work on his interest in earth centered traditions. Earning the grade of first-degree Wicca practitioner, devotee of the Yoruba tradition of Ifa, quantum physics and Kaballa. In 2011 Royal, or Ifarinmoade was initiated as a Babalawo, or priest of the shamanistic Yoruba tradition of Ifa. He also worked towards and earned licensure as a clinical social worker, (LCSW). Today Royal’s work originates from these psychological and spiritual explorations. Utilizing abstract forms to represent ancestral spirits, Yoruba deities, and interdimensional vehicles. His work combines of experiences in a life of many jobs and many studies. The technologies of aircraft mechanics learned as a veteran air force mechanic to mysticism feed into a series of spaceships that he designs from disposable household objects. The study of linguistics utilized to create an alphabet that also has esoteric meaning gleaned from his knowledge of Ifa. Royal Brown has combined social work clinical social work Mystic and mediumistic studies and practical applications such as aircraft mechanics into a body of work, painted or sculpted. His focus to bring about a new way of looking at things the new way of seeing that which is normal and projected again to that which is almost supernatural. As one curator stated, Royal “creates entities.”