Aviva Brooks

Aviva Brooks

Paris, ile de france, France

About Aviva Brooks

This oil and mixed-media American artist, photographer and videographer lives and works in Paris. Inspired by the contrast between American and French cultures, Aviva Brooks explores the interstices. She works on the tension that separates – or unites – the visual and the written, the action and the thought, the energetic immediacy and the distant elegance, the present and the past, childhood and adulthood, American black or white and European shades of grey. On her way, she collects artefacts from the passage of time, thus documenting the tipping point where an era becomes the “past”: telephone booths, public benches, Volkswagen "combis", neon signs...

Education:

2015 School of Visual Arts: artist residency painting
2013 Atelier Beaux-Arts Paris
2009 School of Visual Arts: artist residency photography
1988 Art Students League New York City

Events:

April 2014: Acquisition by the University Hospital Robert Debré Paris 19 of "I think I can" for the pediatric radiology ward and creation of an interactive space for children.

Exhibitions:

August 2015: Open studio group show SVA New York
April 2015 Palais de Tokyo : Art & Care (Phillips)
June 2014 Atelier Beaux Arts portes ouvertes
Feb 2010 Galerie Dix9 Paris solo show: "I think I can"
July 2009 SVA Group Photo show, New York: “Me 2”
May 2009 Jardin d’Acclimatation/Dorothy’s Gallery
“Les Americains à Paris”
April 2008 Marché de l’Art Contemporain Bastille
Jan 2008 Photo Expo AAWE Art Gallery Paris
Nov 2006 Art Paris Grand Palais Paris
June 2006 Mona Bismarck Foundation Group show: A Bi-cultural Palette
May 2005 “Les Portes ouvertes” Clichy