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 cmUSD 1,450Brooksby
Corner Balcony
13 x 13 cmUSD 175Brooksby
Au marché Mouffetard
100 x 100 cmUSD 4,900Brooksby
Balcony Geraniums
13 x 13 cmUSD 175Brooksby
Times Square light
50 x 50 cmUSD 1,450Brooksby
Charlie's Cab
50 x 50 cmUSD 1,450Brooksby
Corvette Party
80 x 80 cmUSD 3,200Brooksby
Le chateau
13 x 13 cmUSD 175Brooksby
Aux Tuilleries
36 x 36 cmUSD 730Brooksby
Ruelle Bormes les Mimosas
100 x 100 cmUSD 4,900Brooksby
Le Pont Neuf au Soleil
36 x 36 cmUSD 730Brooksby
Flowery Window
19 x 19 cmUSD 275Brooksby
les pécheurs
120 x 120 cmUSD 6,800Brooksby
Vielle Porte Fleurie
13 x 13 cmUSD 175Brooksby
Parisian Window: Flower Power
25 x 25 cmUSD 450Brooksby
Paris Chiminies
19 x 19 cmUSD 275Brooksby
Seine Cruise
36 x 36 cmUSD 730Brooksby
Chez Flora
36 x 36 cmUSD 730Brooksby
L'Apéro est Servi
36 x 36 cmUSD 730Brooksby
Brasserie
36 x 36 cmUSD 730Brooksby
Le Moulin Rouge
19 x 19 cmUSD 275Brooksby
Ferrari in Toscana
36 x 36 cmUSD 730Brooksby
La Carte des Vins
13 x 13 cmUSD 175Brooksby
Havana Blue
19 x 19 cmUSD 275Brooksby
Rue Monge
13 x 13 cmUSD 175Brooksby
Huitres Servis
13 x 13 cmUSD 175Brooksby
Un Clin d'œil sur Sacre Cœur
19 x 19 cmUSD 275Brooksby
Chez Mon Amour
13 x 13 cmUSD 175Brooksby
Flowery balcony: Chez Sylvie
25 x 25 cmUSD 450Brooksby
Tabac Monge
19 x 19 cmUSD 275Brooksby
Fleurs Rouges sur le Balcon Parisien
19 x 19 cmUSD 275Brooksby
Urban Garden : Parisian Façade
25 x 25 cmUSD 450Brooksby
Glycine sur la veille porte en Provence
13 x 13 cmUSD 175Brooksby
Parisian Balcony - Chez Moi
25 x 25 cmUSD 450Brooksby
Windowbox Geraniums
19 x 19 cmUSD 275Brooksby
La Nuit à la Brasserie l'Européen
36 x 36 cmUSD 730Brooksby
Café Paris
50 x 50 cmUSD 1,450Brooksby
Le Faune au Jardin du Luxembourg
25 x 25 cmUSD 450Brooksby
Deux Gars et Une Reine.
36 x 36 cmUSD 730Brooksby
Marianne
13 x 13 cmUSD 175Brooksby
Porte Fleurie
13 x 13 cmUSD 175Brooksby
Parisian Cafe Dream
19 x 19 cmUSD 275Brooksby
Bougainvillier
19 x 19 cmUSD 275Brooksby
Reflections and Souvenirs
36 x 36 cmUSD 730- Sold
Brooksby
La Tour Eiffel et les Quais
36 x 36 cmUSD 730 Brooksby
La Seine Mon Amour
36 x 36 cmUSD 730Brooksby
Notre Dame et Toits de Paris
19 x 19 cmUSD 275Brooksby
Parisian Window
13 x 13 cmUSD 175Brooksby
Cafe le Bullier
100 x 100 cmUSD 4,900Brooksby
Fenêtre Ouverte - open window
13 x 13 cmUSD 175Brooksby
Le Moulin Rouge
13 x 13 cmUSD 175Brooksby
Le Bistrot de l'Amour
19 x 19 cmUSD 275- Sold
Brooksby
Au café.
19 x 19 cmUSD 275 Brooksby
L'Apéro est Servi
19 x 19 cmUSD 275Brooksby
Looking Up
100 x 100 cmUSD 4,900Brooksby
Fiat 500
13 x 13 cmUSD 175Brooksby
Haussmann Facade
13 x 13 cmUSD 175Brooksby
Chez Maman
80 x 80 cmUSD 3,200Brooksby
Tanker
120 x 40 cmUSD 2,250Brooksby
Le Sacré Coeur
36 x 36 cmUSD 730