Dolphin Brown is an Austin-based moving-image artist working with light, sound, duration, and spatial perception. Her practice explores how time-based imagery can move beyond passive screen content to become collectible art and an active presence within architecture and place. Through transformed source footage, layered digital processes, color, motion, and sound, she creates limited-edition video paintings and site-responsive installations that exist between object, atmosphere, and environment.

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Dolphin began working with video through her studies at Houston’s High School for the Performing and Visual Arts and the Savannah College of Art and Design. At SCAD, an encounter with pioneering video artist Dara Birnbaum expanded her understanding of what the medium could do and contributed to her creation of the college’s first multi-channel video installation.

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Her work often begins with things she notices and records—water, changing light, botanical forms, reflections, texture, and other natural phenomena. In the studio, that material is layered and transformed through color, rhythm, sound, and duration until it begins to move between recognition and abstraction. Technology is integral to the process, but it remains a tool; the larger question is how moving image can alter perception and become part of the experience of a space.

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Dolphin’s work has been presented internationally, including in Times Square in New York, at La Pedrera–Casa Milà in Barcelona, and in exhibitions across Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom, the Canary Islands, and the United States. Her practice continues to expand toward architectural media, projection, and immersive environments in which moving image becomes part of the identity and experience of place.