Kimberly Brooks

The Artist, The Exhibitionist And Blogger Emily Gould

Kimberly Brooks | Posted 06.14.2008 | Living

Read More: First Person Artist, The Inner Life, Creative Process, Emily Gould, Fine Art, Takashi Murakami, Damien Hurst, Kimberly Brooks, New York Times, Arianna Huffington, Kehinde Whiley, Living News
Kimberly Brooks

What fascinated me most about the New York Times Emily Gould piece was the x-ray view inside the mind of someone who craves the attention of strangers.

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Artist As Second Career: The Wild World Of Kathy Taslitz

Kimberly Brooks | Posted 06.07.2008 | Living

Read More: The Inner Life, Spirituality, First Person Artist, Magritte, Henri Rousseau, Fine Art, Kathy Taslitz, Kandinsky, Snake Charmer, Kimberly Brooks, Henry Moore, Painting, Son of Man, Career Change, Living News
Kimberly Brooks

I am fascinated by artists who find themselves and their art careers later in life. Unlike, say, mathematicians and scientists who allegedly peak before 30, artists tend to mature and get better with age like a fine wine

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Artist Porn: 10 Things That Turn Me On

Kimberly Brooks | Posted 05.31.2008 | Living

Read More: Mad Men, The Devil Wears Prada, Sex and the City Movie, Voss Design, Jaguar XKE, Tom Ford for Men, 15 Central Park West, Tom Ford for Gucci Vagina, The Tudors, Artist Porn, The Inner Life, Prada’s Trembled Blossoms Video, Marc Jacobs, Robert Stern, Target, Michael Graves, Prada, Iphone, Logen's Run, CoCo Chanel, Schiaparelli, Kimberly Brooks, Trembled Blossoms, Six Feet Under, Living News
Kimberly Brooks

Writing a weekly column about artists that turn me on omits a gigantic portion of what turns me on as an artist. The truth is that more artists don't...

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Artist Angela Dufresne On Recreating History

Kimberly Brooks | Posted 05.24.2008 | Living

Read More: Angela Dufresne, The Inner Life, George Bush, Fine Art, David Park, Skull and Bones, Veronika Voss, Painting, Gus Van Sant, Cinema, Du Champ, Aristotle, Elizabeth Taylor, John Steinbeck, Werner Herzog, Grey Gardens, Kimberly Brooks, Tennessee Williams, Joseph Losey, Alice Neel, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Flag Pins, Of Mice and Men, Vuillard, Fassbinder, Giotto, Bacon, Ozu, Cassavetes, Haneke, Louvre, Antonioni, Living News
Kimberly Brooks

Angela Dufresne, The Bruno S Island Acting School and the S House, Paris, France, 2006, oil on canvas, 66 by 108 inches. Courtesy of the artist and M...

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The Painting Whisperer vs The Anxiety of Abstraction: Annie Lapin

Kimberly Brooks | Posted 05.17.2008 | Living

Read More: The Inner Life, Charlie Sheen, Illusion, Still Life, Body Building, Kimberly Brooks, Abstraction, Figuration, Michelangelo, Painting, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Annie Lapin, Realism, Agony and the Ecstasy, Irving Stone, Art, Abstract Art, Intuition, Apocolypse Now, Penicillin, Fine Art, Portraits, Oil Paint, Coppola, Godard, Living News
Kimberly Brooks

Take for a moment the spectrum of Realism and the raucous jazz of Abstraction in painting and slide somewhere in the middle. Over to the left is real...

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Being a Mother is the Ultimate Artist: Alexis Weidig

Kimberly Brooks | Posted 05.10.2008 | Living

Read More: Alexis Weidig, Mother's Day, Nancy Spero, Annette Messanger, Eva Hesse, Ann Hamilton, Sculpture, Louise Bourgeois, Artist, Painting, Fine Art, Kiki Smith, Kimberly Brooks, Living News
Kimberly Brooks

As a mother and artist, there's no doubt that my greatest works of art, the magical moving 3D beings whose personalities evolve and grow each day, are...

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Photography Undergoes a Sex Change: The Art Of Tom Chambers

Kimberly Brooks | Posted 05.03.2008 | Living

Read More: Photoshop Art, Tom Chambers, The Inner Life, Photoshop Photography, Painting, Loretta Lux, Van Cleef Jewelry, Fantasy, Flickr, Henri Cartier Bresson, Kimberly Brooks, Living News
Kimberly Brooks

Over the last ten years, the art of photography has undergone a sex change. The rather masculine act of capturing or "shooting" a moment ("the hunt")...

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The Last Lecture and Living in Technicolor

Kimberly Brooks | Posted 04.19.2008 | Living

Read More: Randy Pausch, Kimberly Brooks, The Last Lecture, Exhibition, Light, Nature, Earth, Landscapes, Painting, Fine Art, Illness, Death, Family, Living News
Kimberly Brooks

Much has been made recently of Randy Pausch's "The Last Lecture". He is a Professor at Carnegie Mellon and six months ago he was diagnosed with pancr...

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Kimberly Brooks | Posted 04.18.2008 | Living

Read More: Randy Pausch, Kimberly Brooks, The Last Lecture, Living News
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The Art of Global Warming: Photographer Sasha Bezzubov

Kimberly Brooks | Posted 03.22.2008 | Living

Read More: Kimberly Brooks, Global Warming Art, Climate Change Art, First Person Artist, The Inner Life, Living News
Kimberly Brooks

The subject of nature for the artist is the thrashing ten ton whale in every studio, indoors and out. Whether scanning a horizon, or reverse engineer...

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The Nudist, The Chemist and Artist Ethan Murrow

Kimberly Brooks | Posted 03.15.2008 | Living

Read More: First Person Artist, Howard Hodgkin, Ethan Murrow, Matisse, The Inner Life, Art, Wright Brothers, Drawing, Nudists, Kimberly Brooks, Painting, Chemist, Living News
Kimberly Brooks

As an artist, I consider art on a sort of spectrum in my mind by the manner in which it is rendered. I picture two opposing ends: one a chemist, who ...

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Why Artists Shouldn't Have Blackberries

Kimberly Brooks | Posted 03.08.2008 | Living

Read More: Blackberry, Kimberly Brooks, The Inner Life, First Person Artist, Blackberries, Iphone, Woody Allen, New Technology, Technology, Barack Obama, Living News
Kimberly Brooks

I have come of age as an artist during the most accelerated period of connectivity our species has ever known.

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First Person Artist: Joel Tauber

Kimberly Brooks | Posted 11.16.2007 | Living

Read More: Kimberly Brooks, Art, Mind.Body.Soul, Joel Tauber, Living News
Kimberly Brooks

n Joel Tauber's latest series, "My Lonely Tree," he falls in love with and cares for, a tree. Yet unlike the sad polar bear sitting on a diminishing icecap, his images are right in our backyard, something we might drive around and miss otherwise.

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First Person Artist: Katherine Guillen

Kimberly Brooks | Posted 10.23.2007 | Living

Read More: Kimberly Brooks, Artists, Katherine Guillen, Mind.Body.Soul, Living News
Kimberly Brooks

2007-10-20-image2pull.jpgThe compulsion we have as a society to create and therefore destroy ourselves has inspired most of my recent paintings.

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First Person Artist

Kimberly Brooks | Posted 09.28.2007 | Living

Read More: Kimberly Brooks, Mind.Body.Soul, Living News
Kimberly Brooks

It's one thing to find your voice, and another to have something to say.

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