Brooke Harker

Brooke Harker is a contemporary artist based in Los Angeles, California. Her lively paintings of cities and coastal scenes are characterized by energetic brush strokes in ink and thick oil paint applied with palette knives. These vibrant depictions of daily life capture a sense of motion and highlight moments of synchronicity.

Harker calls herself a historian of the ordinary. Her paintings are a collaboration with all of the people who’ve contributed to a place over time: architects, engineers, and pedestrians whose colorful fashion landed in view at the perfect moment. All of their individual actions brought together one moment, fated to be captured on canvas.

studied Theater Performance & Theater in Education, Creative Drama and Youth Theater at the University of Northern Iowa

Selected recent exhibits:
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, The Chiba City Museum of Art, Japan, The National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan, The Chase Center, San Francisco, The Chiba City Museum of Art, Michael Hayden Art, Los Angeles, Castelli Art Space, Los Angeles, CA, Palazzo del Comune, Boville Erica, Italy, Cassels Al Barsha, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Area Contesa Arte, Rome, Italy, Gloria Delson Contemporary Arts, Los Angeles, Gabba Gallery, Los Angeles, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, Lu Martin Galleries, Laguna Beach, CA, Satura Art Gallery, Genoa, Italy, Villa Comunale di Frosinone, Italy, Riverside Museum of Art in Riverside CA, Fann-A-Porter Gallery in Dubai, Oceanside Museum of Art in Oceanside CA, FABStudio Art Gallery in Santa Monica, CA, Palazzo della Provincia di Frosinone, Italy, The Wolf Fine Art Gallery in Los Angeles, CA, Malibleu Gallery in Malibu, CA, bg Bergamot Gallery in Santa Monica, C