Kimberly Brooks in Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret full interview > Kimberly Brooks, Malibu Storm By DANIEL MAIDMAN June, 2023 With its candid, heartfelt depiction of female adolescence, Judy Blume’s 1970 middle-grade novel Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret has been a guiding light for generations of girls making their tumultuous way to womanhood. Kelly […]
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TAYLOR DE CORDOBA PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Kimberly Brooks: Mom’s Friends Opening Reception: Saturday March 3rd, 2007, 6-9pm Taylor De Cordoba is pleased to present Mom’s Friends, a solo exhibition by Los Angeles-based artist Kimberly Brooks. In her first solo exhibition at Taylor De Cordoba, Kimberly Brooks explores issues of feminine identity, nostalgia, idolization
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Liz Goldwyn was kind enough to pose for me in authentic 70s clothing from The Way We Wore on La Brea. (Not only is she luminous but also author of the magnificent book, Pretty Things) I’m gathering old magazines from the 70s collecting textiles and hanging them all over the studio looking at 70s fashion
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I’ve been perusing stacks of old photo albums to recall my mother and her friends’ style, their manner. The camera used from my childhood created these rather small square images. They’re very faded now. Mostly wide shots with the head smack in the middle. Our old photo albums are like everyone’s. Like the way old
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The F-Word (“Feminism”) in Art by Leah Lehmbeck On New Paintings by Kimberly Brooks With Nancy Pelosi having taken her historic position at the rostrum and Hillary Clinton hitting the presidential campaign trail, we have undoubtedly entered a new era of feminism. The F-word is once again being bandied about, as is that perennial question,
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When I was a young girl, I remember my mother and her friends, their clothes, their dinner parties and their laughter, as a distinctly as a perfume. These women were not fifties housewives who stayed home and marvelled at the new technology of the dishwasher. This was Marin County in the 1970s, when