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 cm1.150 EURBrooksby
Corner Balcony
13 x 13 cm110 EURBrooksby
Au marché Mouffetard
100 x 100 cm3.050 EURBrooksby
Balcony Geraniums
13 x 13 cm110 EURBrooksby
Times Square light
50 x 50 cm1.150 EURBrooksby
Midtown Corner
80 x 80 cm2.100 EURBrooksby
Charlie's Cab
50 x 50 cm1.150 EURBrooksby
Corvette Party
80 x 80 cm2.100 EURBrooksby
Secret RDV
100 x 100 cm3.050 EURBrooksby
Chaises
13 x 13 cm110 EURBrooksby
La terrasse du Beauharnais
36 x 36 cm480 EUR- Sold
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Notre Table
13 x 13 cm110 EUR Brooksby
Marianne
13 x 13 cm110 EURBrooksby
Fleurs Rouges sur le Balcon Parisien
19 x 19 cm180 EURBrooksby
Le Cafe
13 x 13 cm110 EURBrooksby
Le Judge
13 x 13 cm110 EURBrooksby
Geraniums
25 x 25 cm280 EURBrooksby
Looking Up
100 x 100 cm3.050 EURBrooksby
Tanker
120 x 40 cm1.650 EURBrooksby
Fenêtre Ouverte - open window
13 x 13 cm110 EURBrooksby
Cafe de Flore
36 x 36 cm480 EURBrooksby
L'Apéro est Servi
19 x 19 cm180 EURBrooksby
les pécheurs
120 x 120 cm4.250 EURBrooksby
Parisien Flowers
19 x 19 cm180 EURBrooksby
Le Moulin Rouge
13 x 13 cm110 EURBrooksby
Chez Mon Amour
13 x 13 cm110 EURBrooksby
Cafe le Bullier
100 x 100 cm3.050 EURBrooksby
Spring Love
19 x 19 cm180 EURBrooksby
Terrasse Parisienne
36 x 36 cm480 EURBrooksby
Parisian Window
13 x 13 cm110 EURBrooksby
Un Clin d'œil sur Sacre Cœur
19 x 19 cm180 EURBrooksby
Toits Parisiens
36 x 36 cm480 EURBrooksby
Ferrari in Toscana
36 x 36 cm480 EURBrooksby
Yellow Boat
36 x 36 cm480 EURBrooksby
Deux Chevaux Orange
19 x 19 cm180 EURBrooksby
Nous au Cafe
36 x 36 cm480 EURBrooksby
Classic in Piazza
25 x 25 cm280 EURBrooksby
Le Bistrot de l'Amour
19 x 19 cm180 EURBrooksby
French Riviera Alley
13 x 13 cm110 EURBrooksby
Parisian yorkie
13 x 13 cm110 EURBrooksby
Havana Taxi
36 x 36 cm480 EURBrooksby
Jean d'Arc
13 x 13 cm110 EURBrooksby
Les Balcons
25 x 25 cm280 EURBrooksby
Balcon au soleil
19 x 19 cm180 EURBrooksby
La Seine Mon Amour
36 x 36 cm480 EURBrooksby
Glorious Seine
36 x 36 cm480 EURBrooksby
Coin Fleurit
25 x 25 cm280 EURBrooksby
Chez Céline
25 x 25 cm280 EURBrooksby
le pécheur, Marseille
120 x 120 cm4.250 EURBrooksby
Sacre Cœur Blue Hour
19 x 19 cm180 EUR- Sold
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La Tour Eiffel et les Quais
36 x 36 cm480 EUR Brooksby
Tabac Monge
19 x 19 cm180 EURBrooksby
Haussmann Facade
13 x 13 cm110 EURBrooksby
Vielle Porte Fleurie
13 x 13 cm110 EURBrooksby
Reflections and Souvenirs
36 x 36 cm480 EURBrooksby
Batobus
25 x 25 cm280 EURBrooksby
Ma Mere et Moi au Jardin
25 x 25 cm280 EURBrooksby
Brasserie L'Européen
100 x 100 cm3.050 EURBrooksby
Chez Manon
19 x 19 cm180 EURBrooksby
Huitres Servis
13 x 13 cm110 EUR