Calef Brown
Freelance Illustration
1990 to the present:
Editorial Illustration: Interior and cover illustrations for magazines and newspapers including: Time, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, Spin, The New Yorker, Sports Illustrated, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, Business Week, Fortune, Bloomberg, CFO, Los Angeles Magazine, San Francisco Focus, Boston Magazine, Yale Medicine, and numerous other national and regional publications
Illustration for Entertainment and the Music Industry: Artwork and Lettering for CD covers and interior booklets,advertising and promotional materials. Clients include Warner Bros. Records, Capitol Records, Virgin Records, Atlantic Records, Sony Music, The Playboy Jazz Festival, MTV Networks, Nickelodeon
Illustration for Corporate Clients: Outdoor and Print Advertising, Murals, Packaging, and Promotional Materials. Clients include Coca Cola Co., United Airlines, Adidas, Target Stores, Martha Stewart Inc., American Express, Frasier Paper, Memorex
Character Design: Development, design, and rendering of characters and backgrounds for broadcast and web animation, as well as print use.Clients include Etrade, The TV Guide Channel, Icebox Studios, and The NCAA
Books for Children - Written and Illustrated:
Polkabats and Octopus Slacks- 14 Stories published by Houghton Mifflin Co. 1998
Publisher's Weekly and USA Today Bestseller
Featured on NPR's Weekend Edition
Winner of the Marion Vannett Ridgeway Award for Poetry
Dutch Sneakers and Fleakeepers-14 More Stories published by Houghton Mifflin Co. 2000
Amazon Children's Book Top Ten
Parents Choice Recommended Winner
Tippintown- a Guided Tour, published by Houghton Mifflin Co. 2003
Flamingos on the Roof-Poems and Paintings, published by Houghton Mifflin Co. 2006
New York Times #1 Best Seller In Children's Picture Books
Featured on NPR's Weekend Edition
Winner of the Myra Cohn Livingston Award for Poetry
A 2007 Children's Book Council Choice
Soup for Breakfast-Poems and Pictures published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Co.
Hallowilloween - Nefarious Silliness
to be published by Houghton Harcourt Oct. 2010
Other Books - Illustrated
Gertrude is Gertrude is Gertrude is Gertrude by Jonah Winter
published by Atheneum / Simon and Schuster 2009
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald
published by Harper Collins 2008
Pop-Up Aesop by John Harris
published by Getty Museum Publications 2005
Greece! Rome! Monsters! by John Harris
published by Getty Museum Publications 2001
Selected Group Exhibitions
2009
Move–18
Park Life, San Francisco CA
Kokeshi- From Folk Art to Art Toy
Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles
2008
BLAB! retrospective
The Marianna Kistler Beach Museum
Manhattan, Kansas
Panorama 3
Jonanthan LeVine Gallery, New York
2007
Downright
PEP Gallery, Brooklyn
Kokeshi
Subtext, San Diego, CA
2006
Calef Brown and Martha Rich
La Luz de Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles
Smitten
Giant Robot, New York
Post-It Deux
GR2, Los Angeles
The Zine Show
Junc Gallery, Los Angeles
2005
Carry On
Feigen Contemporary, New York
Move 13
Clementine Gallery, New York
Calef Brown and Jacob McGraw-Mickelson
Motel Gallery, Portland, OR
2004
Incognito
The Santa Monica Museum of Art
The Ornament Show
Track 16, Santa Monica
Nook and Cranny
New Image Art, Los Angeles
Post-it
Junc Gallery, Los Angeles
2003
Move 9 -Lead Poisoning
New Image Art, Los Angeles
Assembly
The Front Room, Brooklyn
Le Dernier Cri
Track 16, Santa Monica CA
Lectures and Readings
Grafil - Oslo, Norway
Toronto Art Director's Club - Toronto, Canada
The National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art - Rome, Italy
Dallas Society of Visual Communications - Dallas, TX
American Greetings - Cleveland, OH
Pratt Institute - Brooklyn, NY
Tyler School of Art - Philadelphia, PA
Rhode Island School of Design - Providence, RI
Savannah College of Art and Design - Savannah, GA
American Librarian's Assoc. Convention - New Orleans, LA
Texas Librarians Assoc. Convention - Houston, TX
The Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, Los Angeles Chapter
Work published in Juried Illustration Annuals:
The Society of Illustrators NY and LA
American Illustration Vols. 13-26
Communication Arts Illustration Annual
Print Regional Design Annual
Teaching
1995-1998 Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles and Westchester CA
Communication Design Department
2005-2007 Art Center College of Design, Pasadena CA
Illustration Department