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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Brooksby
Cafe de Flore
50 x 50 cm880 €Brooksby
Corner Balcony
13 x 13 cm109 €Brooksby
Au marché Mouffetard
100 x 100 cm2 900 €Brooksby
Balcony Geraniums
13 x 13 cm109 €Brooksby
Times Square light
50 x 50 cm880 €Brooksby
Midtown Corner
80 x 80 cm1 900 €Brooksby
Charlie's Cab
50 x 50 cm880 €Brooksby
Corvette Party
80 x 80 cm1 900 €Brooksby
Secret RDV
100 x 100 cm2 900 €Brooksby
Rue Saint André des Arts
19 x 19 cm170 €Brooksby
Huitres Servis
13 x 13 cm109 €Brooksby
Tanker
120 x 40 cm1 450 €Brooksby
Ruelle de Provence
36 x 36 cm480 €Brooksby
Balcon au soleil
19 x 19 cm170 €Brooksby
Brasserie L'Européen
100 x 100 cm2 900 €Brooksby
Rue Monge
13 x 13 cm109 €Brooksby
Classic in Piazza
25 x 25 cm285 €Brooksby
Parisian Balcony - Chez Moi
25 x 25 cm285 €Brooksby
King Charles
36 x 36 cm480 €Brooksby
Café Pause
36 x 36 cm480 €Brooksby
Geraniums
25 x 25 cm285 €Brooksby
Bougainvillier
25 x 25 cm285 €Brooksby
Ruelle Bormes les Mimosas
100 x 100 cm2 900 €Brooksby
l'Apéro Arrive
13 x 13 cm109 €Brooksby
Spring Love
19 x 19 cm170 €Brooksby
Coin Fleurit
25 x 25 cm285 €Brooksby
Yellow Boat
36 x 36 cm480 €Brooksby
Marianne
13 x 13 cm109 €Brooksby
Bistrot Monge
25 x 25 cm285 €Brooksby
Toits Parisiens
36 x 36 cm480 €Brooksby
Cafe le Bullier
100 x 100 cm2 900 €- Sold
Brooksby
Paris Dogs
25 x 25 cm285 € Brooksby
Fiat 500
13 x 13 cm109 €Brooksby
Glycine
13 x 13 cm109 €Brooksby
Le Bistrot de l'Amour
19 x 19 cm170 €Brooksby
500 Gold
25 x 25 cm285 €Brooksby
Havana Blue
19 x 19 cm170 €Brooksby
Parisian Cafe Dream
19 x 19 cm170 €Brooksby
La Carte des Vins
13 x 13 cm109 €Brooksby
Brasserie
36 x 36 cm480 €Brooksby
Senequier au Soleil
36 x 36 cm480 €Brooksby
Mini Rover
25 x 25 cm285 €Brooksby
La Nuit à la Brasserie l'Européen
36 x 36 cm480 €Brooksby
Le Moulin Rouge
13 x 13 cm109 €Brooksby
Cafe de Flore
50 x 50 cm880 €- Sold
Brooksby
Bougainvillier en Provence
19 x 19 cm170 € Brooksby
Le Moulin Rouge
19 x 19 cm170 €Brooksby
Windowbox Geraniums
19 x 19 cm170 €Brooksby
F4 No Name 10029-32-20240104-2
36 x 36 cm480 €Brooksby
French Riviera Alley
13 x 13 cm109 €Brooksby
Looking Up
100 x 100 cm2 900 €Brooksby
Parisian Window: Flower Power
25 x 25 cm285 €Brooksby
L'Apéro est Servi
19 x 19 cm170 €Brooksby
Reflections and Souvenirs
36 x 36 cm480 €Brooksby
les pécheurs
120 x 120 cm3 800 €Brooksby
Le Sacré Coeur
36 x 36 cm480 €Brooksby
L'Apéro est Servi
36 x 36 cm480 €Brooksby
Apollo
19 x 19 cm170 €Brooksby
Le Néons de Paris
36 x 36 cm480 €Brooksby
Mercedes
13 x 13 cm109 €