The Stylist Project

LACMA “Art, Fame & Fashion” Presentation

photo by Aleji Tenutta Art Bistro- Review by Emily Waldorf The Stylist Project Asks, “Is Fashion Art?” On Wednesday, April 21, LACMA’s Costume Council featured a brilliant presentation by artist Kimberly Brooks, “Art, Fame, and Fashion.” Brooks recently completed the Los Angeles component of the The Stylist Project, a series of oil paintings that will …

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Vanity Fair: Kimberly Brooks Shows Her Oil Paintings at Taylor De Cordoba Gallery in L.A.

….Brooks’ latest oeuvre abandons the Hockney-like light-saturated planes of color and the Matisse-like flat decorative patterning that she deployed so skillfully in my portrait. Driven and prolific, the artist within a year has moved on to a darker, more deconstructed mood, to a Bacon-like paring down to ripened, abstracted essences. The new oil paintings—you can …

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Kimberly Brooks presents The Stylist Project at LACMA with Jeanne Yang and Elizabeth Stewart

Lecture at LACMA – April 21, 2010

I hope you’ll join me for a slide-show presentation at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art this April about the visual inspirations and process for creating The Stylist Project.  Two of my subjects, Jeanne Yang and Elizabeth Stewart will be joining me on stage for a panel discussion afterwards. Invitation below. pdf_Kimberly Brooks_invite

Los Angeles Times Magazine: Culture(d)

ROGUES’ GALLERY Pop stars have fascinated contemporary artists for years—think Andy Warhol, Richard Prince and Elizabeth Peyton. Painter Kimberly Brooks now trains her eye on those who labor to make them popular. The Stylist Project includes portraits of L.A. tastemakers, including (clockwise from top left) celebrity stylist Elizabeth Stewart, Rose Apodaca (co-owner of A+R) and …

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Huffington Post: Kimberly Brooks’ The Stylist Project Debuts in Los Angeles

March 2, 2010 | Ellen Caldwell In Victor Bockris’ biography on Andy Warhol, Warhol describes his dream of attending one of his famed parties and mingling with all of his paintings’ subjects who have magically come to life around him. Last night, painter Kimberly Brooks got to live out Warhol’s dream. Brooks’ current solo show …

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WWD – Painted Ladies, Artist Kimberly Brooks Chooses Fashion Flock as Her Subject

Stylists like Rachel Zoe, Arianne Phillips and Nancy Steiner are used to earning top dollar to make celebrities look camera-ready. But recently they had the tables turned on them, posing for painter Kimberly Brooks as part of her new series “The Stylist Project.” And much like her aesthetically attuned subjects, Brooks took a highly detailed …

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LATimes: Portraits In Style ~ Kimberly Brooks Captures the Looks of Top L.A. Stylists and Designers on Canvas

Fashion stylists once worked behind the scenes, their faceless names relegated to the credit pages of magazines. But lately some have been stepping into the spotlight (hello, Rachel Zoe), gaining recognition for the important role they play when it comes to trends, the red carpet and popular culture. Artist Kimberly Brooks became so enamored of …

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944: ArtForm

Kimberly Brooks’ The Stylist Project is a series of portraits that focuses on the professional stylist and fashion-industry insider as its subjects.  The Los Angeles exhibition features paintings of some of the world’s most influential style-makers, including owner A + R and former WWD Bureau Chief Rose Apodaca; Madonna’s personal stylist Arianne Phillips; New York …

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Peter Clothier- The Buddah Diaries

Excerpt from The Buddah Diaries Sunday March 6, 2010 “….So let’s take a look at Kimberly’s work. She’s a proficient painter, mostly pictures of people in environments that could be called “genre paintings,” and she has been concentrating recently on portraiture in what she identifies as “The Stylist Project.” They are portraits, mostly, of women, …

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The Examiner- Los Angeles, Kimberly Brooks Paints Masterful Artworks for The Stylist Project

March 3, 11:50 AM LA Women’s Style Examiner Laurie Brucker As we all know, fashion is an art form. Designers essentially create living breathing works of art that grace our the runways. Haute Couture, of course being the finest and highest of this art form. Well what about stylists? Are the wildly creative fashion visions …

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Los Angeles Magazine – Coming Attractions Feb 2010

EXHIBITION Fashion Fronts (pg. 32) Transforming people into art is all in a day’s work for stylists Rachel Zoe and Jessica Paster and costume designer Arianne Phillips, so it’s appropriate that they get the same treatment in a new exhibition. With The Stylist Project, a show at Culver City’s Taylor De Cordoba gallery, Venice painter …

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FineArtsLA

Kimberly Brooks had a great idea recently.  The local, Venice-based painter decided to look into the art that plays a role in our everyday lives and the people holding the cards behind it.  She looked beyond museum shows, beyond advertisements, and into the world of fashion that is so often considered less of an art …

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VOGUE – Italia

March 4, 2010. Artist Kimberly Brooks celebrated the opening of her current exhibition The Stylist Project in Los Angeles last night… Vanity Fair and Dior co-sponsored the event, as guests including Ginnifer Goodwin, Abbie Cornish, Liz Goldwyn and Marisa Tomei… joining fellow stylists Arianne Phillips, Cameron Silver and Lisa Edelstein, among others. – Linlee Allen