The Artist, The Exhibitionist And Blogger Emily Gould
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.
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.
Kimberly Brooks | Posted 06.07.2008 | Living
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
Kimberly Brooks | Posted 05.31.2008 | Living
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...
Kimberly Brooks | Posted 05.24.2008 | Living
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...
Kimberly Brooks | Posted 05.17.2008 | Living
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...
Kimberly Brooks | Posted 05.10.2008 | Living
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...
Kimberly Brooks | Posted 05.03.2008 | Living
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")...
Kimberly Brooks | Posted 04.19.2008 | Living
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...
Kimberly Brooks | Posted 03.22.2008 | Living
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...
Kimberly Brooks | Posted 03.15.2008 | Living
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 ...
Kimberly Brooks | Posted 03.08.2008 | Living
I have come of age as an artist during the most accelerated period of connectivity our species has ever known.
Kimberly Brooks | Posted 11.16.2007 | Living
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.
Kimberly Brooks | Posted 10.23.2007 | Living
The compulsion we have as a society to create and therefore destroy ourselves has inspired most of my recent paintings.
Kimberly Brooks | Posted 09.28.2007 | Living
It's one thing to find your voice, and another to have something to say.
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Kimberly Brooks | Posted 06.14.2008 | Living