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.
Apr 6, 2019
In
this episode, we talk about David Hockney and his use of
technology, the history of technology in painting, the book her
father wrote "Art & Physics" and how she edited it during her
teenage years. We also discuss her studio practice, work, color and
how she became the founding editor of the
Huffington Post Arts section.
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, at Zevitas Marcus,
a mid-career survey, at Mt San Antonio College (2018). 2019
exhibitions include Paintings from the Interior
at UC Riverside Museum and
Disclosure
at Durden and Ray and the
Untitled Art Fair
in San Francisco.
Brooks paintings have been showcased in numerous juried
exhibitions with curators from the Whitney Museum of American Art,
The Museum of Modern Art, California Institute of the Arts, Los
Angeles County Museum of Art. Her work has received international
press and she was recently a featured artist for the National
Endowment for the Arts.
Also
an award-winning educator, Brooks teaches workshops around the
country including at Otis School of Art and Design in Los Angeles
and The Anderson Ranch Art Center in Colorado. Brooks
received her B.A. at UC Berkeley (Literature) and studied painting
at Otis and UCLA. Brooks lives in Los Angeles and works out of her
studio in Venice. Her upcoming book, Oil Painting: Safe Practices, Materials and
Supplies, published by
Griffith Moon, will be available this spring.
This
summer Brooks will be curating a show at Zevitas
Marcus and you can
preorder her book, Oil
Painting Safe Practices, Materials & Supplies: The Essential Guide
at
You
can also take workshops with Kimberly this summer based on the
book. She is accepting applications now:
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