Calling all Kimberly Brooks fans: A short time remains to catch “Fever Dreams,” her mid-career survey at Mt. San Antonio College Art Gallery. More than 20 pieces, from small studies to watercolors on paper to large-scale oil paintings, sketch Brooks’ artistic progression over the past 15 years. Upon entering the gallery, the first paintings you encounter are among her newest and shiniest.
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The real voyage of discovery consists of not seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. – Marcel Proust A medium of communication is not merely a passive conduit for the transmission of information but rather an active force in creating new social patterns and new perceptual realities. – Leonard Shlain, The Alphabet Versus the Goddess
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Meet an Artist Monday: Painter Kimberly Brooks by Shana Nys Dambrot L.A. WEEKLY: When did you first know you were an artist? KIMBERLY BROOKS: I knew I was an artist since I was little. I had a set of markers in kindergarten that I kept incredible care of, and every few years I would get
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K I M B E R L Y B R O O K S “Fever Dreams” SEPT 27 – DEC 6, 2018 Mt. San Antonio College, 1100 N. Grand Avenue, Walnut CA August 28, 2018 | Walnut, CA — The Mt. San Antonio College Art Gallery is pleased to present Fever Dreams, a solo exhibition
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Envisioning Space, Past and Presence In the art of Kimberly Brooks, reality dances, tantalizingly, just out of reach. The interiors and landscapes of her paintings are lush, seductive, but impossible to occupy; while stocked with familiar aesthetic cues, they feel hallucinatory, displaced not only from the here and now but even from the historical circumstances
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