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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(125 Artworks)
125 Artworks
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
Le Judge
13 x 13 cm109 €Brooksby
Le Sacré Coeur
36 x 36 cm480 €Brooksby
L'Apéro est Servi
36 x 36 cm480 €Brooksby
Jean d'Arc
13 x 13 cm109 €Brooksby
Café Pause
36 x 36 cm480 €Brooksby
Apollo
19 x 19 cm170 €Brooksby
Glycine
13 x 13 cm109 €Brooksby
Tabac Monge
19 x 19 cm170 €Brooksby
Havana Blue
19 x 19 cm170 €Brooksby
Senequier au Soleil
36 x 36 cm480 €Brooksby
l'Apéro Arrive
13 x 13 cm109 €Brooksby
Tanker
120 x 40 cm1 450 €Brooksby
Chez Flora
36 x 36 cm480 €Brooksby
Batobus
25 x 25 cm285 €Brooksby
Deux Chevaux Orange
19 x 19 cm170 €Brooksby
French Riviera Village
80 x 80 cm1 900 €Brooksby
Glorious Seine
36 x 36 cm480 €Brooksby
La Tour Eiffel, rue de Monttessuy
80 x 80 cm1 900 €Brooksby
Yellow Boat
36 x 36 cm480 €Brooksby
Terrasse Parisienne
36 x 36 cm480 €Brooksby
Chaises
13 x 13 cm109 €Brooksby
Classic in Piazza
25 x 25 cm285 €Brooksby
Havana Taxi
36 x 36 cm480 €Brooksby
Flowery balcony: Chez Sylvie
25 x 25 cm285 €Brooksby
Bateaux aux Jardins du Luxembourg
25 x 25 cm285 €Brooksby
Le Bistrot de l'Amour
19 x 19 cm170 €Brooksby
Geraniums
25 x 25 cm285 €Brooksby
L'Apéro est Servi
19 x 19 cm170 €Brooksby
Windowbox Geraniums
19 x 19 cm170 €Brooksby
Coin Fleurit
25 x 25 cm285 €Brooksby
Cafe le Bullier
100 x 100 cm2 900 €Brooksby
Chez Mon Amour
13 x 13 cm109 €Brooksby
500 Gold
25 x 25 cm285 €Brooksby
Les Deux Magots
36 x 36 cm480 €Brooksby
Glycine sur la veille porte en Provence
13 x 13 cm109 €Brooksby
Balcon au soleil
19 x 19 cm170 €Brooksby
Le Moulin Rouge
13 x 13 cm109 €Brooksby
Parisian Rooftop
13 x 13 cm109 €Brooksby
La terrasse du Beauharnais
36 x 36 cm480 €Brooksby
La Seine Mon Amour
36 x 36 cm480 €Brooksby
Marianne
13 x 13 cm109 €Brooksby
Chez Céline
25 x 25 cm285 €Brooksby
Café Paris
50 x 50 cm880 €Brooksby
Spring Love
19 x 19 cm170 €Brooksby
Ruelle de Provence
36 x 36 cm480 €Brooksby
Porte Fleurie
13 x 13 cm109 €Brooksby
le pécheur, Marseille
120 x 120 cm3 800 €Brooksby
Huitres Servis
13 x 13 cm109 €Brooksby
Cafe de Flore
36 x 36 cm480 €Brooksby
Ferrari in Toscana
36 x 36 cm480 €Brooksby
Aux Tuilleries
36 x 36 cm480 €