With a sold-out show last May, two nationally successful juried exhibitions since then and a new gallery show in the Culver City arts district, painter Kimberly Brooks continues to stoke the flames of L.A.’s red-hot art market. Based on photographs from the 1970s of her mother and her mom’s friends, Brooks’ new works portray women who migrated to California and consequently “melted their in hibitions, heated up their styles and shed previous notions of themselves”. Sun-soaked, feather-haired and fur-clad, the women in Brooks’ tonally rich visions are bathed in the familiar contrasts of decades old poloroids pictures.
