Artist Statement:
My work springs from a variety of sources, including snapshots, news clippings, and art historical images. Many of my paintings and prints depict gatherings of people in urban settings – in cafes, at bus stops, on the street – and cast the figures in a theatrical light as players on a stage. I try to make art that lets the world in, in all its complexity, and that reflects both the ordinary and extraordinary.
Artist Biography:
Brooks studied art at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and subsequently at the University of Arizona in Tucson where she received her Master of Fine Arts degree in Painting and Drawing. She has shown her work locally and nationally. Her exhibitions include one-person shows at Bromfield gallery, Willoughby & Baltic Fine Arts, the Cambridge Center for Adult Education, and elsewhere. Brooks has been awarded residencies at Blue Mountain Center and Dorland Mountain Arts Colony. She is the recipient of several artist fellowship grants from the Somerville Arts Council, most recently in 2013.
Her personal artist website is http://www.nancyhallbrooks.com.