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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(17 Artworks)
17 Artworks
Brooksby
Classic in Piazza
25 x 25 cm45 900 RUBBrooksby
Batobus
25 x 25 cm45 900 RUBBrooksby
Ferrari in Toscana
36 x 36 cm59 900 RUBBrooksby
Le Sacré Coeur
36 x 36 cm59 900 RUBBrooksby
Le Moulin Rouge
19 x 19 cm35 900 RUBBrooksby
Brasserie L'Européen
100 x 100 cm320 000 RUBBrooksby
Apollo
19 x 19 cm35 900 RUBBrooksby
Le chateau
13 x 13 cm19 900 RUBBrooksby
La terrasse du Beauharnais
36 x 36 cm59 900 RUBBrooksby
Tabac Monge
19 x 19 cm35 900 RUBBrooksby
Marianne
13 x 13 cm19 900 RUBBrooksby
Deux Gars et Une Reine.
36 x 36 cm59 900 RUBBrooksby
Senequier au Soleil
36 x 36 cm59 900 RUBBrooksby
Cafe de Flore
36 x 36 cm59 900 RUBBrooksby
Le Néons de Paris
36 x 36 cm59 900 RUBBrooksby
Seine Cruise
36 x 36 cm59 900 RUBBrooksby
Cafe de Flore
50 x 50 cm110 000 RUB