Pegan Brooke, S-264, Oil on linen, 84” x 60”.
Pegan Brooke is a painter, photographer and video artist. Brooke’s nature-based abstract paintings are inspired by the visual phenomena and experiences of sustained reflection upon the Aven River (Pont Aven, France), the Pacific Ocean and the rivers and snowfall in Ketchum, Idaho. Brooke draws inspiration from certain places and circumstances – the reflection of light as it dances upon water, morning fog across the landscape, and the crystalline beauty of snow. Brooke’s oil paintings are both abstract and meditative, combining the sensibilities of impressionism with the formal qualities of minimalism. Through the use of metallic pigments and methodically placed brush strokes, the canvases appear to move and undulate as light bounces across their iridescent surfaces. Eliciting sensations of light as it dapples across the water’s surface or refracts and bends through fog and snow, Brooke’s paintings seem to shift and mutate as the viewer moves around them, much like the light transforms throughout the day.
Pegan Brooke is Professor Emerita at San Francisco Art Institute and has completed artist residencies in Italy, France and New York. Brooke has exhibited extensively, and her work is in the permanent collection of the Guggenheim Museum, New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; BAMPFA (Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive), the Des Moines Art Museum; the Swig Collection, San Francisco, Anderson Collection, Menlo Park, California, Oracle Headquarters, Charles Schwab, and Steven Chase Collection. Brooke and her work have been widely reviewed in numerous publications including in Art in America, The New York Times, and Artweek.
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