The organization, at its heart I think, is about
gaining equal recognition for our views, and also attempting to stop the spread of biblically inspired laws being proposed and supported by the religious majority.
Brown was a San Francisco native, taught by Bay Area Figurationists Bischoff, Oliverira, and Lobdel at the California School of Fine Arts (now SFAI); exhibited at legendary Beat venues (6 Gallery, Batman); lived next to Jay DeFeo and Wally Hedrick during the painting of DeFeo's The Rose; married noted Bay Area sculptor and fellow student Manuel Neri; counted such disparate artists as Wallace Berman and Bernice Bing as friends; and
gained early
recognition (a New York exhibition at age 22) resulting in a lifelong teaching post at Berkeley, a Guggenheim fellowship, over sixty solo shows, and inclusion in an
equal number of posthumous group exhibitions.