Jarid Lyfe Brown

some things I have been a part of:

  • Represented by multiple galleries and interior decorators.

  • Represented by Anastasia Chernoff around 2012-2014, what a sweet soul.

  • Large amount of solo shows, group shows, all over South Carolina, national events in other states, worked and got to know many well-known local artists and artists in other states.

  • Sold hundreds of portraits, abstracts, drawings, paintings, sculptures, commissions, mostly from 2012-present.

  • Built my website in 2010 and still maintain/update it.

  • Handle all promo, and communications, do all planning/setting up/breaking down of shows.

  • Build all canvases

  • Researching, reading, visiting galleries, spending time with artists of all kinds, traveling, showing, working.

  • Working with gallery owners, interior decorators, and private collectors.

  • Social media account building and maintaining.

  • Murals

  • Helped plan creative solutions and visuals for numerous churches and businesses.

  • Organized live show in which a friend played abstract guitar sounds while I painted. Painting was auctioned off and proceeds given to event host

  • Traveled to DC to spend a day with a well-known artist that I admired to learn from him

  • Worked with teachers at different schools showing work to kids, sharing poetry, reading books, and doing art projects

Artist Statement

About two years ago, life seemed to be unexpectedly and unusually busy and chaotic. Between that and lazy excuses, painting and drawing started drifting because I was used to painting very large which can be time consuming. I grabbed a new sketchbook as a sort of documentation device for my current erratic thoughts and regular life experiences. I still use my sketchbook but this larger painting is a mixture of my generate and degenerate thoughts and current depressive or manic experiences while I am still learning to work anyway. Vincent Van Gogh talks about art as a seeking without ever fully finding. That resonates with my current and past practices involved in trying to pay attention to what I am supposed to make next.


Presented by the Jasper Project, The Degenerate Art Project II is the answer to an overwhelming request by artists and patrons of Jasper's inaugural Degenerate Art Project (July 2025) for an additional exhibition which will involve an open call for visual artists. This 3 week-long multidisciplinary arts event (Feb. 11–28 at Stormwater Studios) invites Midlands artists to respond to today's socio-political climate, and unite our local arts community—physically and in spirit—in support and solidarity during challenging times. Inspired by—and reclaiming—the legacy of the Nazi-labeled "Degenerate Art" of 1937, this project champions creative resistance and free expression through a visual art exhibition, featuring over 40 Midlands artists.