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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132 Artworks
Brooksby
Corner Balcony
13 x 13 cmUSD 175Brooksby
Au marché Mouffetard
100 x 100 cmUSD 4,900Brooksby
Balcony Geraniums
13 x 13 cmUSD 175Brooksby
Corvette Party
80 x 80 cmUSD 3,200Brooksby
Yellow Boat
36 x 36 cmUSD 730Brooksby
Cafe de Flore
50 x 50 cmUSD 1,450Brooksby
Chaises
13 x 13 cmUSD 175Brooksby
Chez Flora
36 x 36 cmUSD 730Brooksby
Ferrari in Toscana
36 x 36 cmUSD 730Brooksby
Chez Mon Amour
13 x 13 cmUSD 175Brooksby
Chez maman
100 x 100 cmUSD 4,900Brooksby
La Fontaine au Jardin du Luxembourg
25 x 25 cmUSD 450- Sold
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Le rouge
13 x 13 cmUSD 175 Brooksby
Ready for Lunch
25 x 25 cmUSD 450Brooksby
Terrasse Parisienne
36 x 36 cmUSD 730Brooksby
Windowbox Geraniums
19 x 19 cmUSD 275Brooksby
Bougainvillier
19 x 19 cmUSD 275Brooksby
Deux Chevaux Orange
19 x 19 cmUSD 275Brooksby
Le Cafe
13 x 13 cmUSD 175Brooksby
Tabac Monge
19 x 19 cmUSD 275Brooksby
Parisian Window: Flower Power
25 x 25 cmUSD 450Brooksby
Parisian Window
13 x 13 cmUSD 175Brooksby
Le Faune au Jardin du Luxembourg
25 x 25 cmUSD 450Brooksby
Brasserie L'Européen
100 x 100 cmUSD 4,900- Sold
Brooksby
Chez Manon
19 x 19 cmUSD 275 Brooksby
L'heure de l'apéro
19 x 19 cmUSD 275Brooksby
Hotel de Ville (Détail)
25 x 25 cmUSD 450Brooksby
Café Pause
36 x 36 cmUSD 730Brooksby
Cafe Georges V
36 x 36 cmUSD 730Brooksby
La terrasse du Beauharnais
36 x 36 cmUSD 730Brooksby
Le Néons de Paris
36 x 36 cmUSD 730- Sold
Brooksby
Flowery balcony: Chez Sylvie
25 x 25 cmUSD 450 Brooksby
Marianne
13 x 13 cmUSD 175- Sold
Brooksby
Le Pont Neuf
13 x 13 cmUSD 175 Brooksby
Bougainvillier
25 x 25 cmUSD 450Brooksby
l'Apéro Arrive
13 x 13 cmUSD 175Brooksby
Mini Rover
25 x 25 cmUSD 450Brooksby
Bateaux aux Jardins du Luxembourg
25 x 25 cmUSD 450Brooksby
Spring Love
19 x 19 cmUSD 275Brooksby
Cafe Parisien
25 x 25 cmUSD 450- Sold
Brooksby
Coin Fleuri
25 x 25 cmUSD 450 Brooksby
Les Quais du Seine
36 x 36 cmUSD 730Brooksby
Senequier au Soleil
36 x 36 cmUSD 730Brooksby
Fiat 500
13 x 13 cmUSD 175Brooksby
Rendez-vous au café
19 x 19 cmUSD 275Brooksby
Le Moulin Rouge
19 x 19 cmUSD 275Brooksby
Huitres Servis
13 x 13 cmUSD 175Brooksby
Havana Blue
19 x 19 cmUSD 275- Sold
Brooksby
Ruelle de Grimaud
36 x 36 cmUSD 730 Brooksby
Classic in Piazza
25 x 25 cmUSD 450Brooksby
French Riviera Window
13 x 13 cmUSD 175- Sold
Brooksby
Les Quais au Soleil
19 x 19 cmUSD 275 Brooksby
Ruelle Bormes les Mimosas
100 x 100 cmUSD 4,900Brooksby
Fenêtre aux fleurs
13 x 13 cmUSD 175- Sold
Brooksby
Geraniums
25 x 25 cmUSD 450 Brooksby
Vue sur le Panthéon
19 x 19 cmUSD 275Brooksby
Balcon au soleil
19 x 19 cmUSD 275Brooksby
Batobus
25 x 25 cmUSD 450Brooksby
Le chateau
13 x 13 cmUSD 175Brooksby
Le Sacré Coeur
36 x 36 cmUSD 730