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 cm19.950 TRYBrooksby
Corner Balcony
13 x 13 cm2.625 TRYBrooksby
Au marché Mouffetard
100 x 100 cm60.900 TRYBrooksby
Balcony Geraniums
13 x 13 cm2.625 TRYBrooksby
Times Square light
50 x 50 cm19.950 TRYBrooksby
Midtown Corner
80 x 80 cm39.900 TRYBrooksby
Charlie's Cab
50 x 50 cm19.950 TRYBrooksby
Corvette Party
80 x 80 cm39.900 TRYBrooksby
Secret RDV
100 x 100 cm60.900 TRYBrooksby
l'Apéro Arrive
13 x 13 cm2.625 TRYBrooksby
La Nuit à la Brasserie l'Européen
36 x 36 cm11.445 TRYBrooksby
Batobus
25 x 25 cm6.615 TRYBrooksby
Deux Chevaux Orange
19 x 19 cm4.095 TRYBrooksby
Huitres Servis
13 x 13 cm2.625 TRYBrooksby
Rue Monge
13 x 13 cm2.625 TRYBrooksby
Le Bistrot de l'Amour
19 x 19 cm4.095 TRYBrooksby
Balcon au soleil
19 x 19 cm4.095 TRYBrooksby
Café Pause
36 x 36 cm11.445 TRYBrooksby
les pécheurs
120 x 120 cm85.100 TRYBrooksby
Cafe de Flore
36 x 36 cm11.445 TRYBrooksby
King Charles
36 x 36 cm11.445 TRYBrooksby
Toits Parisiens
36 x 36 cm11.445 TRYBrooksby
500 Gold
25 x 25 cm6.615 TRYBrooksby
Ruelle de Grimaud
36 x 36 cm11.445 TRYBrooksby
Rendez-vous au Café
19 x 19 cm4.095 TRYBrooksby
F4 No Name 10029-32-20240104-2
36 x 36 cm11.445 TRYBrooksby
Seine Cruise
36 x 36 cm11.445 TRYBrooksby
French Riviera Alley
13 x 13 cm2.625 TRYBrooksby
Les Balcons
25 x 25 cm6.615 TRYBrooksby
Bistrot Monge
25 x 25 cm6.615 TRYBrooksby
Mercedes
13 x 13 cm2.625 TRYBrooksby
Le Moulin Rouge
13 x 13 cm2.625 TRYBrooksby
Windowbox Geraniums
19 x 19 cm4.095 TRYBrooksby
Tanker
120 x 40 cm32.400 TRYBrooksby
Le Moulin Rouge
19 x 19 cm4.095 TRYBrooksby
Chez Maman
80 x 80 cm39.900 TRYBrooksby
Fiat 500
13 x 13 cm2.625 TRYBrooksby
Brasserie L'Européen
100 x 100 cm60.900 TRYBrooksby
Glycine
13 x 13 cm2.625 TRYBrooksby
Le Judge
13 x 13 cm2.625 TRYBrooksby
Looking Up
100 x 100 cm60.900 TRYBrooksby
Le Néons de Paris
36 x 36 cm11.445 TRYBrooksby
Deux Gars et Une Reine.
36 x 36 cm11.445 TRYBrooksby
La Tour Eiffel, rue de Monttessuy
80 x 80 cm39.900 TRYBrooksby
Fenêtre Ouverte - open window
13 x 13 cm2.625 TRYBrooksby
Café Paris
50 x 50 cm19.950 TRYBrooksby
French Riviera Village
80 x 80 cm39.900 TRYBrooksby
Havana Taxi
36 x 36 cm11.445 TRYBrooksby
le pécheur, Marseille
120 x 120 cm85.100 TRYBrooksby
Apollo
19 x 19 cm4.095 TRYBrooksby
Coin Fleurit
25 x 25 cm6.615 TRYBrooksby
F1 No Name 10029-32-20240104-1
13 x 13 cm2.625 TRYBrooksby
Mini Rover
25 x 25 cm6.615 TRYBrooksby
Geraniums
25 x 25 cm6.615 TRYBrooksby
Yellow Boat
36 x 36 cm11.445 TRYBrooksby
French Riviera Window
13 x 13 cm2.625 TRYBrooksby
Rue Saint André des Arts
19 x 19 cm4.095 TRYBrooksby
Urban Garden : Parisian Façade
25 x 25 cm6.615 TRYBrooksby
Chez Flora
36 x 36 cm11.445 TRYBrooksby
Parisian Cafe Dream
19 x 19 cm4.095 TRY