FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 31, 2006
Whitney Curator Selects LA Artist Kimberly Brooks to participate in Annual Juried Exhibition in NY
"Remote Viewing: Invented Worlds in Recent Painting and Drawing" 24th Juried Annual Exhibition at Pleiades Gallery in Chelsea, New York, June 29th-July 27th, 2006.
Los Angeles - Two paintings by LA artist Kimberly Brooks were selected this week by the curator of the Whitney Museum of Modern Art, Elisabeth Sussman, for inclusion in the 24th Annual Juried Exhibition at the Pleiades Gallery in New York City. Twenty artists were selected from sixteen hundred submissions in an international outreach. This is the second time Brooks’ work has been selected for the long-running and prestigious annual exhibition. Her contribution to last year's show was selected by assistant curator of MOMA NY, Jordan Kantor.
The recognition of Brooks’ artwork comes during the month of her first solo exhibition, “The Whole Story”. The show of the series continues at the Risk Press Gallery, an alternative space for emerging artists on Melrose Avenue, through Tues May 31st (8533 Melrose Ave).
”The show’s focus on viewing is strongly connected to the themes in my recent exploration and modern recontexutalization of women figures,” says Brooks from the Venice, California studio where she works.
The Paintings
Brooks’ pieces for this exhibition are “Enid” and “Bluenote”, both paintings of women using oil on linen and a cool palette, but with strikingly different brush strokes and moods. In “Enid”, the eyes peer above the canvas and out of sight, beyond the viewer, prideful and uninhibited. The strokes are loose and free. While in “Bluenote”, the nude curls inward, the flesh and hair is polished, while her porcelain pallor evokes both a shiny stillness and study in contrast.
About the Artist
Kimberly Brooks works in oil painting and mixed media. Her work has been featured in numerous juried exhibitions whose jurors include Jordan Kantor of MOMA, Joan Hugo of the California Institute of the Arts and Chris Burden. Brooks earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from UC Berkeley and studied painting at Otis Art Institute and UCLA with artists Franklyn Leigel and Liat Yossifer, respectively.
CONTACT: To speak with Kimberly Brooks, for more information contact Heather Taylor at 310.559.9156 at Taylor De Cordoba.
