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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False Mirror Rene Magritte As an artist, I am always looking for ways to innovate and combine images in a way that holds the user still in that moment. In our rushed and harried world, having that gift of stillness to share with a viewer is the holy grail. One tool that helps me create
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Los Angeles – Saturday, Oct 2nd 4-6 PM Kimberly Brooks upcoming solo exhibition “Painting Architecture” occurs in the Bozigian Gallery at the Museum of Art and History, Lancaster during the “Structures” exhibition. More Details coming soon.
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The sky fades from a deep red-brown down to a dusty pink above an indistinct horizon. Mountains slope down to a valley, their surfaces muted shades of orange and ochre marked by patches of more strident mustard yellow and wine red. Areas of dirty blue-green denote a river flowing between them—or perhaps this is nothing
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Kimberly Brooks interview with Daniel Modlin “Do Judge a Book by Its Cover”
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ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: Kimberly Brooks Written by Michael Wilson Read full article here The sky fades from a deep red-brown down to a dusty pink above an indistinct horizon. Mountains slope down to a valley, their surfaces muted shades of orange and ochre marked by patches of more strident mustard yellow and wine red. Areas of
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Happy June! Despite some shipping delays (see above) The New Oil Painting hits stores and mailboxes June 15th. “New Abstractions” In Person Exhibition I would love to see you at the recent exhibition of abstractions I created for the cover of the book at Zevitas Marcus at 2419 Michigan Avenue, Suite G, Saturday, June 19th 11-5
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE In-Person Limited ExhibitionOn View: June 19th to June 26th, 2021Location: 2419 Michigan Avenue, Suite G, Santa Monica, CA 90404 Artsy Online ExhibitionOn View: June 16th to July 24th, 2021 EXHIBITION CATALOGUE PREVIEW & ESSAY DOWNLOAD PRESS RELEASE [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEThe New Oil PaintingYour Essential Guide toMaterials and Safe PracticesBy Kimberly Brooks5 x 7 in, 208 pp,Paperback, Illustrations and Photos throughoutISBN 978-1-4521-8479-1, $16.95 Media Contact: Diane LevinsonDiane_Levinson@chroniclebooks.com212.354.8840 x 248 Oil painting has captivated artists for centuries, but too many would be painters feel hesitant to try
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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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My Quarantine: Obsessed with Oil Painting By Cintra Wilson As featured in The New York Review of Books There are many things one may learn by being in quarantine, not including that very special ennui that makes you daydream about finding a Halliburton case full of street drugs, or getting hit with a cricket bat
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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
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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
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I am excited to share this episode with you because it is packed with such great content! Kimberly Brooks is a Renaissance Women who is a painter, researcher, writer, teacher and all around wonderful mind. In this episode, we talk about David Hockney and his use of technology, the history of technology in painting, the
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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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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)
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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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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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Kimberly Brooks recent painting “Crown of Thorns” is being used for the cover of Victoria Namknug’s recent novel These Violent Delights and is receiving accolades and awards in the literary community. Cover Design by Sara Martinez.
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When I was in film school, before the millennium, we were instructed always to reserve some time at the end of shooting in each room. During this time, we were to record several minutes of silence in the room. This “room tone” could then be seamlessly woven in wherever sound editing called for dialogue shot
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Art Works Podcast: Kimberly Brooks, painter and multi-media artist
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Kimberly Brooks is a contemporary American painter whose work integrates figuration and abstraction to explore a variety of subjects dealing with history, memory and identity. Brooks has solo exhibitions throughout the United States and her work has been showcased in juried exhibitions including curators from the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Museum of
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The Jealous Curator: Kimberly Brooks
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View Article Kimberly Brooks on the love of painting, switching off and the language of fashion This month, Los Angeles-based American painter Kimberly Brooks returns with Brazen, her latest exhibition which will run at Zevitas Marcus in Culver City until 28 October. Taking cues from the current socio/political climate, her new work moves in a
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by Andy Brumer Los Angeles-based artist Kimberly Brooks offers a strong showing of mostly oil on linen paintings. The title of the show, “Brazen,” offers a an insightful clue to its contents. Brooks spoke to this writer of the need she felt to move her paintings in a new direction. Towards that end she took
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Continuing her tense on-going battle between abstraction and literal representation, Kimberly Brooks’ latest selection of oil paintings are being displayed in Los Angeles at the Zevitas Marcus gallery. Brooks explores the theme of human gestures, pillaging the imagery of well-known historical events to reproduce an entirely new story within that very same context. Her work
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Art+Feminism 2:30-3:45 PM Ace Hotel Art+Feminism is an international public project established in 2013 in response to the gender gap on Wikipedia. A DIY project, A+F developed materials and methods so that anyone can organize in-person, communal editing events on content pertaining to women and the arts. Since the first Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon in March,
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Santa Ana, Ca- Kimberly Brooks will have three works featured in the group exhibition “Instalarity” curated by F. Scott Hess at the Q Art Salon, November 5-28, 2016 Opening night November 5th 6:00 – 8:00 PM Participating artists include: Alonsa Guevara, Kimberly Brooks, Charles Antolin, Damian Chavez,Daniel Maidman, Danny Galieote,Dina Brodsky, Felicia Forte, F Scott
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Los Angeles- Otis College of Art and Design has awarded Kimberly Brooks The Franklin Leigel Award for Teaching Excellence and made her the award’s first recipient. The award was created in the late beloved teacher’s honor after he passed in 2012. Kimberly Brooks, a was a student of Mr. Leigel’s in the late 1990s and 2000s and
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June 11, 2015 download pdf > The historic Cooper building sits in the heart of downtown L.A.’s fashion district, and now a new sculpture hangs in the heart of that heart: The Cooper announced Wednesday it has permanently acquired artist Kimberly Brooks’ 8-foot-tall uncoated steel pendant “The Ephemerality of Manner,” which evokes a Victorian-era hoop
Nov 28, 2014 In Kimberly Brooks’ recent paintings, filmy, oppulently dressed figures from another age float in silk-draped salons and leafy estate landscapes. Like a cinder caught in the mind’s eye, their facelessness fires our imagination — much as we internally draw characters while reading dusty novels, filling in our own details. “I love
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ROBERT MONTGOMERY: L.A. BILLBOARD EXHIBITION ART ABOVE THE STREETS: AN EVENING WITH ROBERT MONTGOMERY & KIMBERLY BROOKS Exhibition Dates: June 23, 2014 (ongoing, billboard locations throughout L.A.) Panel Discussion With The Artist: Monday, June 3oth, 7pm-1.30am, hosted by Artist Kimberly Brooks. The Do Art Foundation, in collaboration with Art Share L.A., & Ace Hotel Downtown
Kimberly Brooks paintings featured in Poet and Artists Magazine, special edition, curated by Daniel Maidmen.
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By Nell ScovellRead full article > In March 2010, I attended an art opening for Kimberly Brooks’s show “The Stylist Project” in Los Angeles. It was a starry celebration hosted by Dior and Vanity Fair to benefit P.S. Arts. But even as fun-to-gape-at actresses like Christina Hendricks arrived, I couldn’t take my eyes off the
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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
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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.
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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,
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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
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PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE KIMBERLY BROOKS “I Notice People Disappear” February 6 – March 6, 2014 Opening Reception: Thurs, 6:30- 8:30 PM ArtHouse 429 is pleased to present “I Notice People Disappear”, a solo exhibition of new work by Los Angeles-based artist Kimberly Brooks. The exhibit will run from February 6 – March 6,
ArtHouse 429 is pleased to present “I Notice People Disappear”, a solo exhibition of new work by Los Angeles-based artist Kimberly Brooks. The exhibit will run from February 6 – March 6, 2013. The Gallery, located at 429 25th St, West Palm Beach, FL, will host a reception for the artist on Thursday, Feb 6
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WHITEBOX CONTEMPORARY is pleased to present “The Forest from the Trees” Curated by Chris Trueman and Joshua Dildine August 10, 2013 – September 10, 2013 Reception: August 10, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm White Box Contemporary 1040 7th Avenue San Diego, CA 92101 619-237-8813 Kimberly Brooks Kathleen Melian Elizabeth Anne Sobieski Erica Stallones www.whiteboxcontemporary.com/forest SAN
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SANTA MONICA, CA–INCOGNITO Santa Monica Museum of Art’s highly anticipated annual exhibition and benefit art sale, will return for its ninth year on Saturday, May 11, 2013, accompanied by the second annual PRECOGNITO Gala Dinner and Art Preview event on Thursday, May 9, 2013. Tickets for both events go on sale March 1. Kimberly Brooks
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“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,
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact: Danielle Grant | A&O PR (P) 415.860.0767 | (E) danielle@aopublic.com Mirus Gallery Presents: The Looking Glass Refraction through the Female Gaze Claire Pestaille, Stargate (III), Collage, 2012 Opening Reception: February 9th, 2013 | 6pm – 10pm Exhibition Dates: February 9 – March 2, 2013 Mirus Gallery | 540 Howard Street
download pdf > On the day of our studio visit painter Kimberly Brooks was just back from Paris and eager to show off a stash of vintage fashion drawings she had unearthed there – the kind with cascading heaps of tailored pink satin and elaborate salon interiors in the background. Also, she was about to
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Kimberly Brooks: “Los niños deberían ser expuestos para hacer arte y música a muy temprana edad a lo largo de la educación básica”. Pocos conocen fuera de Estados Unidos a esta artista anglosajona, pero realmente es la persona que esta detrás de la sección dedicada al mundo cultural del portal el Huffington Post, uno de
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The art world comes alive again in September, as galleries reopen and collectors return from far flung locations. We reviewed upcoming September exhibitions at more than 400 galleries around the country, and there will be a lot of painting on view. As is typical, many galleries are bringing out the big guns for the new
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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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Kimberly Brooks’s “Thread” at Taylor De Cordoba is neither about fashion nor the women who bring it to life but about how fashion lives but for the moment it’s worn. It’s about the expectations that clothes elicit, and once those expectations are met, memories of the occasion create attempts to rekindle the irretrievable beauty of,
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….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
Someday, art lovers will have the technology to attend 50 receptions across as many square miles in the space of two hours — but not this Saturday, when what seems like half the galleris in L.A. simultaneously present blockbuster season-openers. Culver City makes this Hobson’s choice [of which exhibition to attend] a bit easier, offering
Kimberly Brooks “Punk History” Oil on Linen 40 x 36 in. PDF PRESS RELEASE – For Immediate Release Kimberly Brooks: “Thread”, September 10 – October 22, 2011 Opening Reception: Saturday September 10, 2011 6pm – 8pm Taylor De Cordoba is pleased to present “Thread”, a solo exhibition of new oil paintings by Los Angeles-based artist
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Brooklyn Street Art Invites you to “Street Art Stories”, a presentation and panel discussion about new stories told on the street today, to be held at MOCA Grand Avenue Ahmanson Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA on Saturday August 13, 2011 at 3 pm. STREET ART STORIES Presented by Brooklyn Street Art A Presentation and Panel Discussion
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“Ginnifer Study” 6 x 8″ Oil on linen 2010 Kimberly Brooks FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Taylor De Cordoba is pleased to present new works by Kimberly Brooks as a part of their 5 Year Anniversary Exhibition. For years Brooks has painted tiny canvases before creating larger paintings as an excersize in palette and composition. The resulting
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Santa Monica Art Museum: INCOGNITO Exhibition and Art Sale Saturday, April 30, 2011, 7 to 10:00 p.m. Kimberly Brooks will have a piece in INCOGNITO, an art exhibition and sale at the Santa Monica Museum of Art featuring works by hundreds of acclaimed artists from Los Angeles and across the globe in an 8” x
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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
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TEDxFullerton, “Ideas worth spreading in Orange County” FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2010 “…TEDxFullerton’s special guest speaker is artist Kimberly Brooks, a painter and new media artist who recently conceived and launched the Arts Section of the Huffington Post, a new “vertical”, where she serves as Arts Editor. Like Ms. Brooks who lives “creative” community through
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What happens when you invite a group of artists to play their own game of online “telephone,” that is, to create and post a work of art in response to another piece of art, but with only 24 hours to do so? Kimberly Brooks, artist and editor of HuffPost Arts, an online arts hub, will
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The Huffington Post Launches HuffPost Arts Online Arts ‘Hub’ Features Wide-Ranging Coverage And Fresh, Unfiltered Voices New York, NY, June 16, 2010 — The Huffington Post (“HuffPost”), a leading social news and opinion site, today announced the launch of “HuffPost Arts,” a newsection covering all things arts and culture related, including up-to-the minute news and
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KIMBERLY BROOKS: The Stylist Project The history of portraiture is in many ways a history of influence. Most portrait subjects held a certain degree of influence over the church, the state, and the cultural climates of their times—fashion trends of course among the latter. From monarchs to wealthy arts patrons to courtesans lying languidly on
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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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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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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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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
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
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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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
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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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
Who says fashion isn’t art? For her latest exhibition, The Stylist Project, painter Kimberly Brooks enlisted a group of renowned Hollywood stylists to outfit themselves and pose for portraits. “I started thinking of fashion as a language.” says the artist, whose previous work has focused on subjects closer to home (think paintings of her mom’s
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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
PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE “Valentino, Cartier and Rachel Zoe” Oil on Linen by Kimberly Brooks The Women of Women: The Female Form, curated by Yasmine Mohseni January 16, 2010 – February 20, 2010 Opening reception: Saturday January 16, 2010 from 6-8PM Taylor De Cordoba is pleased to present The Women of Women: The Female
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Made in California Kimberly Brooks will be participating in a Group Show in Santa Monica featuring California Artists “Made in California” June 25th to July 12th Peter Alexander Stan Bitters Kimberly Brooks Jamie Daughters Laddie John Dill Ed Moses Samuel Moyers Daniel Wheeler
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: ELIZABETH WILLIAMS (213) 627-5100 Exhibition: All Under One Roof: A Selection of LA Artists Guest curator: Yasmine Mohseni Dates: April 10-May 8, 2009 Reception: April 10, 2009, 7-11pm Location: Tarryn Teresa Gallery, 1820 Industrial St, #230, Los Angeles, CA 90021 Monday-Friday 11:00am-5:00pm, Saturday 11:00am-4:00pm Tarryn Teresa Gallery is pleased to present
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Kimberly Brooks Technicolor Summer Exhibition was featured in Pen, a widely circulated magazine in Japan.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Exhibition: ArtHaus 2009 Jan 24 – Feb 24 Opening Reception 5:00 pm Saturday January 24th Dogtown Station 700 Main Street, Venice, CA www.arthaus.us Los Angeles, CA — Venice-based painter Kimberly Brooks was selected to exhibit among twenty five artists from Berlin to Los Angeles in a group exhibition, “artHAUS” curated by Thomas
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December/January 2008-2009 Kimberly Brooks was one of 40 artists selected from 1600 to be selected for latest issue of New American Paintings, No. 79, Pacific Coast Edition . With over five thousand artists reviewed annually, it has become America’s largest and most important series of artist competitions. Juror Rita Gonzalez, Associate Curator of The Los
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Los Angeles, CA — One of the paintings from Venice-based painter Kimberly Brooks’ recent solo show, “Technicolor Summer”, was selected to be on the cover of “This One is Mine” a new book by Maria Semple published by Little Brown. The painting is entitled “Mulholland Drive” and features a woman sheilding herself from the blinding
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