Jordan Brown (b. 1996, Silver Spring, MD) is an artist based in Baltimore, MD. Influenced by studies in dance, music, and traditional crafts, he creates improvised textile works that function as windows into alternative, liberated futures. He holds an MFA in Sculpture from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

I am always thinking about repetition, ritual, and technology, which I define as any systematic processing of information. I first began thinking about technologies of transformation as I developed old clothing into quilts, inspired by the Gee’s Bend tradition. I developed a deeper understanding of how familiar objects, such as articles of clothing, are encoded with information about history, values, relationships, and identities. As well as tangible things, sounds, movements, images, symbols, words and stories are also charged objects that can be transformed, remixed, and played with. 

In my current work, I create improvised textile works that operate as windows into alternative, liberated futures. I excavate material from the collective unconscious in the form of symbols, found objects, text, and images, and re-construct them into new understandings. To this end, I prioritize improvisation, remixing, my intuition and personal experience, and multivocality as creative techniques. My practice is located in a mythical queer Blackness as defined by scholars such as Audre Lorde, Lucille Clifton, and bell hooks, as well as the lineages of craftspeople I come from via the American South.

CV (Updated June 2025)