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How To Art The New Oil Painting by Kimberly Brooks (Chronicle Books). Oil paint is one of the most ancient mediums on earth – but there’s a downside to the richness, depth, mythic stature and durability of this classical material. The solvents long assumed to be requisite for using oil-based pigment are really toxic. But as painter

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Neidich’s words hit home. Writers and automotive reviewers mostly socialize in magazine offices and test tracks. It has indeed been a lonely time. Our first two stops weren’t too promising, as we spotted the little yellow Drive-By Art signs at the designated addresses, but not anything we could easily recognize as art. Perhaps that was

Creator Stories with Kimberly Brooksby Isa Adney A story of becoming an artist, embracing the digital, and seeing every technological shift as an opportunity to communicate the things that never change. Photography by Isadora Kosofsky. Standing in Kimberly Brooks’ artist studio, I find it hard to look away from the “Jerusalem” canvas, a piece from

LOS ANGELES, CA.- January is about cleansing the past and making new starts. But since the early 1990s, independent polls have shown the rapid growth of those without a religious affiliation. So where do people go to confess, if not to a higher power? Two curators thought … perhaps an art gallery? On Jan. 5,

Kimberly Brooks integrates figuration and abstraction to explore a variety of subjects dealing with history, memory and identity.  Exhibitions include Mom’s Friends, Technicolor Summer, The Stylist Project, I Notice People Disappear, Brazen and most recently Fever Dreams, a midcareer survey, at Mt San Antonio College (2018). Brooks received her B.A. at UC Berkeley (Literature, Valedictorian)

Kimberly Brooks paintings featured in Poet and Artists Magazine, special edition, curated by Daniel Maidmen.

LA Artist Kimberly Brooks in Palm Beach By Elizabeth Sobieski The Venice based artist Kimberly Brooks’ one woman show opened at Arthouse 429, West Palm Beach, Florida on February 6 (on view through March 6) and is entitled “I Notice People Disappear”. I have noticed an extraordinary metamorphosis in Brooks’ paintings over the last three or four years, since

Vanity Fair: Kimberly Brooks’ Mesmerizing Oil Paintings Read whole article here >> Kimberly Brooks: I Notice People Disappear Solo exhibition, Arthouse 429 429 25th St., West Palm Beach, FL Feb 6 – March 6, 2014 by Daniel Maidman For Zemira A fruit does not taste its best when you pick it. Consider a strawberry, or a pear.

Dreamy. Introspective. Hazy. Provocative. These words describe the work of contemporary American painter Kimberly Brooks. By blending images of recognizable figures with flowing abstraction, the artist layers representations of haute couture and glamour with tones of mystery and wonder. Based in Los Angeles, Brooks has established a national presence…  From Feb 6 – March 6,

  Los Angeles artist Kimberly Brooks has made a career out of depicting how the other half lives. Her latest exhibit, I nOtice People Disappear, Feb 6 – March 6, takes the concept even further. Inspiried by the individuals, customs and rituals of high society in the 18th century British India, Brooks presents the world

“Blue Dress”  40 x 32 in. OIl on Linen 2011 Kimberly Brooks While the percentage of female subjects depicted by male artists is disproportionately high in art history, Mirus Gallery aims to subvert the ever-present male gaze in Western art for the next exhibition, “The Looking Glass: Refraction through the Female Gaze.” Opening February 9,

Kimberly Brooks’ work is featured in the recent Pacific Coast Edition of New American Paintings, Juried Exhibitions in Print. New American Paintings is the most prestigious Print Exhibitions in North America, Distributed Internationally and receives over five thousand submissions annually. You can pick it up at your local newsstand or order one online here: http://www.newamericanpaintings.com