KIMBERLY BROOKS: Pennsylvania Academy Of Fine Arts

February 10th, 2013

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Kimberly Brooks is a panelist participating in a public forum at Pennsylvania Academy Of Fine Arts entitled “The Female Gaze: Women Artist Making Their Way In The World.”

PAFA’s Samuel M. V. Hamilton Building
128 N. Broad Street 
February 10, 2013
The panelists will discuss the role identity politics plays in the contemporary art world. 

 

VENICE ART WALK AND AUCTIONS

May 16th, 2012

Taylor De Cordoba artists Kimberly Brooks, Frohawk Two Feathers, Kyle Field and Claire Oswalt are participating in this year’s Venice Art Walk and Auction, taking place May 19 and 20.

 

Kimberly Brooks | Mom's Friends Study, 2008 | Gouache on paper | 8" x 11"

Kyle Field | A Place in the Park, 2008 | Ink and watercolor on paper | 7 x 8.75 inches

Claire Oswalt | Doubled Over, 2009 | Graphite, paper, wood | 26''x36''x13''

Frohawk Two Feathers | Tales of Heroism, Part I (God Help The Enemy), 2006 | Xerographic transfer print on wood | 7.5" x 8"

This year the auction is being hosted by Google and includes artist studio tours, gourmet food trucks and live music. Tickets to the event can be purchased on their website.

KIMBERLY BROOKS: The Art Economist

February 8th, 2012

Kimberly Brooks is the subject of Bruce Helander’s article “Artists To Watch” in the latest issue of The Art Economist.

To view the article as a pdf file, click here.

KIMBERLY BROOKS: Group Show

February 3rd, 2012

Kimberly Brooks debuts three new paintings in Coming Together, a pop-up group painting exhibition curated by Sonny Ruscha Bjornson and Laura Grover. Opens February 3 at Fabien Fryns Fine Art. On view through February 18, 2012.

KIMBERLY BROOKS: Thread

October 22nd, 2011

 

Kimberly Brooks: Thread

September 10 – October 22, 2011

Taylor De Cordoba is pleased to present Thread, a solo exhibition of new oil paintings by Los Angeles-based artist Kimberly Brooks. The exhibition will run from September 10 – October 22. The gallery will host an opening reception on Saturday, September 10 from 6pm-8pm.

In her latest body of work, Kimberly Brooks continues to explore portraiture, specifically the complexities of representations of female identities. While in her previous series, including Mom’s Friends (2007) and The Stylist Project (2010), the artist used figures to construct narratives, here the female form is part of a broader abstracted landscape. And while earlier portraits boasted an uncanny likeness to their subjects, Brooks’ style has shifted into something that is simultaneously looser and richer. Facial features have been abstracted and bodies distorted. Fashion and costume, a longtime theme for Brooks, is also deconstructed. Once painstakingly rendered folds and drapes have been reduced to their essential shapes and color fields. In these sumptuous new images, Brooks continues to address questions about how we frame beauty, and the phenomenon of fashion as a both pop culture and artistictouchstone. Taken as a whole, the new paintings create a meta-narrative that contemplates “threads” that define, unite and separate us across different cultures and eras.

Kimberly Brooks’ work has been featured in numerous juried exhibitions organized by curators from the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Museum of Modern Art. Her work has been featured in myriad publications including the Los Angeles Times, Art Ltd., Daily Serving, The Huffington Post, Vanity Fair, Vogue, among others.

 

KIMBERLY BROOKS: What the Butler Saw

October 20th, 2011

“Thread,” Kimberly Brooks at Taylor de Cordoba, by James Scarborough

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, say, a “Sunset Boulevard” Gloria Swanson. As such, the show offers a metaphor of aging: we do, style does, and, as is the case here, specific time spent in the particular clothes does…

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KIMBERLY BROOKS: Beautiful Decay

September 19th, 2011

Kimberly Brooks At Taylor De Cordoba

In her latest body of work, Kimberly Brooks continues to explore portraiture, specifically the complexities of representations of female identities. While in her previous series, including Mom’s Friends (2007) and The Stylist Project (2010), the artist used figures to construct narratives, here the female form is part of a broader abstracted landscape. And while earlier portraits boasted an uncanny likeness to their subjects, Brooks’ style has shifted into something that is simultaneously looser and richer. Facial features have been abstracted and bodies distorted. Fashion and costume, a longtime theme for Brooks, is also deconstructed. Once painstakingly rendered folds and drapes have been reduced to their essential shapes and color fields. In these sumptuous new images, Brooks continues to address questions about how we frame beauty, and the phenomenon of fashion as a both pop culture and artistic touchstone.   Taken as a whole, the new paintings create a meta-narrative that contemplates “threads” that define, unite and separate us across different cultures and eras.

Make sure to catch Kimberly Brooks’ third solo show currently on view at Taylor De Cordoba through October 22nd.

KIMBERLY BROOKS: Vanity Fair

September 16th, 2011

 

Fine Art: Kimberly Brooks Shows Her Oil Paintings at Taylor De Cordoba Gallery in L.A.

By Amy Fine Collins

I don’t know if Kimberly Brooks ambushes her subjects all in the same way, but I can vouch for the fact that when she swooped into my life, in order create a portrait for her Stylist Project series, we formed an instantaneous friendship that seemed to have originated in medias res. I welcomed her into my home and into my life in a way that would make many longtime acquaintances feel like strangers. The speed with which Kimberly works is in keeping with the accelerated pace of our friendship. Kimberly snapped pictures of me rat-a-tat-tat with a stop-action sports setting, a way for her to layer up cubistic multiple perspectives of my pose…

Full Article Here

KIMBERLY BROOKS: Architects and Artisans

September 16th, 2011

Kimberly Brooks featured in Architects and Artisans.

KIMBERLY BROOKS: The Wild

September 10th, 2011

THREAD BY KIMBERLY BROOKS

by Robin Newman

Kimberly Brooks’s solo exhibit Thread opens September 10 at Taylor De Cordoba in Los Angeles. Thread marks a departure for Brooks from the realistic style and direct portraiture of her previous work. The new paintings present distorted figures against broad, abstract landscapes. In the past Brooks has used stylists as models as a way to address issues of fashion and femininity. Here again fashion and costume play an important part in the work. As the body has been disfigured in the paintings, clothes too are deconstructed and loosely rendered. Through abstracting and distilling the representation of the dressed female body, Brooks engages the way in which beauty and fashion are seen.