Jim Brown: The Third Country/El Tercer Pais
April 3-May 9
Reception THURSDAY, April 2, 6:30-8:30 PM

Jim Brown is the co-owner, together with James Gates, of Public Architecture and Planning in University Heights. The Third Country/El Tercer Pais will be the first installment of a three-part exhibition. The second part will open at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego in May. The third part will open in late fall of 2009, in a location not yet chosen. Taken together, the work will describe a series of studies about and around the border between Tijuana and San Diego.

Jim tells us that the Athenaeum portion “will be highly explorative in nature. It will be intuitive and non-site-specific. I will examine, through models and drawings, the nature of boundary, and explore linear patterns that might later translate into new strategies of designing the frontier.” Each exploration will take the form of a small model accompanied by a drawing.