Early Life, Family and Training Christopher Brown entered the world in 1951 at the United States Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune in Jacksonville, North Carolina. He was born into a family where his father practiced medicine, a life of precision and care. His formative years were spent moving through different landscapes, as he was raised in Warren, Ohio, and later in Urbana, Illinois. These early shifts in environment provided a quiet backdrop to his developing sensibilities before he turned his focus toward the formal study of visual expression. His path toward mastery led him to the Univer…