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Edward Brooks is a sculptor, painter, and photographer whose work spans a long career and encompasses many media and influences. His most recent sculptures are architectural abstractions that utilize the play of light over planar surfaces.
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Edward Brooks is a sculptor, painter, and photographer whose work spans a long career and encompasses many media and influences. His most recent sculptures are architectural abstractions that utilize the play of light over planar surfaces.
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His paintings draw from diverse influences: abstract expressionism, Asian calligraphy, collage, and nature. His mixed media works incorporate acrylic, Sumi ink, graphite and charcoal. His bold use of color and brushwork creates works that range from energetic and joyful celebration to Zen restraint and serenity. |
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His photography of the California coast and mountains apotheosizes the forces of earth, wind, fire, and water as expressed in wind shaped trees and water sculpted rocks against a backdrop of cloud embellished skies. Edward Brooks trained as a sculptor and worked as a leather craftsman, musician, actor, finish carpenter, and construction estimator while completing his journey to artist and sculptor. He studied at the Museum College in Philadelphia, the Art Student League in New York City, and the Tyler School of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. His work has been collected through out the United States and Paris, France. He does not show in galleries, but has shown at the Spectrum Photography Co-op in Fresno, Mendocino Art Center, Fairfield Visual Arts Assoc., Consortium for the Arts in Walnut Creek, and Arts Benecia. About his own work Edward says, "The themes are mainly about the intertwining rhythms and the joy of life's experiences." Craig Bryars |
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