Brooksby | Contemporary Artist: Artworks & Biography
Brooksby
- France
Painter
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When I paint, my canvas becomes a window that opens onto another dimension.
Brooksby showed an early aptitude for drawing. To keep up with her father's business travels, her family traveled constantly across the United States. This itinerant childhood gave the American artist a real appetite for wandering. By the age of eight, she was already studying model drawing at the University of California, Los Angeles. Two years later, she was apprenticed to a Japanese ceramist in West Virginia, and later became interested in photography. At the Beaux-Arts, she discovered a passion for sculpture and graduated in 1987, just before moving to Florence, Italy, where she settled for over twenty years.
Her love affair with painting began in the Tuscan countryside, during scooter rides. She would ride around with her easel and canvases hanging on her luggage rack. In 2006, her wandering spirit wakes up. She visited Paris for a weekend and decided to settle there. The French capital inspired her first urban scenes, a major axis of her work. Brooksby considers herself a colorist and devotes part of her paintings to the "blue hour", that in-between time of day when it is neither day nor night. She claims to belong to the American "Contemporary Realism" movement. Very much anchored in the reality of the moment, her works are intended as testimonies of an era. She currently lives and works on the French Riviera. The return to the Mediterranean inspires her to paint again. She paints on the spot the alleys of the villages,
- 2018Exhibition at the CocoonBrussels, Belgium
- 2016Participation in Luxembourg Art FairLuxembourg, Luxembourg
- 2010James Watson buys her a paintingCold Spring Harbor in New York, United States of America (the)
- 2001Interviewed on NBC's The Today ShowFlorence, Italy
- 1965BirthNew York, United States of America (the)
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(128 Artworks)
128 Artworks
Brooksby
Cafe de Flore
50 x 50 cm1.200 EURBrooksby
Corner Balcony
13 x 13 cm115 EURBrooksby
Au marché Mouffetard
100 x 100 cm3.100 EURBrooksby
Balcony Geraniums
13 x 13 cm115 EURBrooksby
Times Square light
50 x 50 cm1.200 EURBrooksby
Charlie's Cab
50 x 50 cm1.200 EURBrooksby
Corvette Party
80 x 80 cm2.150 EUR- Sold
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Parisian yorkie
13 x 13 cm115 EUR Brooksby
En route pour le Sacré Cœur
36 x 36 cm480 EURBrooksby
Bateaux aux Jardins du Luxembourg
25 x 25 cm285 EURBrooksby
Ferrari in Toscana
36 x 36 cm480 EURBrooksby
Chaises
13 x 13 cm115 EURBrooksby
L'Apéro est Servi
36 x 36 cm480 EUR- Sold
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La Nuit à la Brasserie l'Européen
36 x 36 cm480 EUR Brooksby
Balcon Fleuri
25 x 25 cm285 EURBrooksby
Le Moulin Rouge
19 x 19 cm185 EURBrooksby
Tabac Monge
19 x 19 cm185 EURBrooksby
Geraniums
25 x 25 cm285 EURBrooksby
le pécheur, Marseille
120 x 120 cm4.250 EURBrooksby
Hotel de Ville (Détail)
25 x 25 cm285 EUR- Sold
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Un Clin d'œil sur Sacre Cœur
19 x 19 cm185 EUR Brooksby
Le Pont Neuf Mon Amour
19 x 19 cm185 EURBrooksby
Parisian Window: Flower Power
25 x 25 cm285 EURBrooksby
Fiat 500
13 x 13 cm115 EURBrooksby
L'Apéro est Servi
19 x 19 cm185 EURBrooksby
Le Néons de Paris
36 x 36 cm480 EURBrooksby
Toits de Paris
25 x 25 cm285 EURBrooksby
Yellow Boat
36 x 36 cm480 EURBrooksby
l'Apéro Arrive
13 x 13 cm115 EURBrooksby
Ensemble dans le Jardin
25 x 25 cm285 EURBrooksby
Reflections and Souvenirs
36 x 36 cm480 EURBrooksby
Havana Taxi
36 x 36 cm480 EURBrooksby
Havana Blue
19 x 19 cm185 EURBrooksby
Notre Dame et Toits de Paris
19 x 19 cm185 EUR- Sold
Brooksby
Le Moulin Rouge
13 x 13 cm115 EUR Brooksby
Cafe de Flore
50 x 50 cm1.200 EURBrooksby
Marianne
13 x 13 cm115 EURBrooksby
Chez Manon
19 x 19 cm185 EURBrooksby
Le Sacré Coeur
36 x 36 cm480 EURBrooksby
French Riviera Window
13 x 13 cm115 EURBrooksby
Glycine sur la veille porte en Provence
13 x 13 cm115 EURBrooksby
Windowbox Geraniums
19 x 19 cm185 EURBrooksby
Lovers on the Bridge
36 x 36 cm480 EURBrooksby
Mercedes
13 x 13 cm115 EURBrooksby
Mon Amour
13 x 13 cm115 EURBrooksby
Le chateau
13 x 13 cm115 EURBrooksby
Cafe Parisien
25 x 25 cm285 EURBrooksby
Looking Up
100 x 100 cm3.100 EURBrooksby
Batobus
25 x 25 cm285 EURBrooksby
Chez Maman
80 x 80 cm2.150 EUR- Sold
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Venus au Jardin de Plantes
25 x 25 cm285 EUR Brooksby
French Riviera Alley
13 x 13 cm115 EURBrooksby
les pécheurs
120 x 120 cm4.250 EURBrooksby
Chez Mon Amour
13 x 13 cm115 EURBrooksby
Glycine
19 x 19 cm185 EURBrooksby
Le Cafe
13 x 13 cm115 EUR- Sold
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Les Quais
36 x 36 cm480 EUR Brooksby
La Seine Mon Amour
19 x 19 cm185 EURBrooksby
Promenade au Jardin de Luxembourg
25 x 25 cm285 EURBrooksby
Ready for Lunch
25 x 25 cm285 EUR