Julie Zener Gallery

ARTIST RECEPTION

Artist Reception

​Tuesday, October 2, 6-8PM

Exhibition Through October 27

Pegan Brooke will unveil her most recent oil paintings capturing light and movement.

With her use of unique brushwork and metallic paint, these new oils are reflective and mesmerizing.

Brooke’s paintings draw inspiration from three regions: Pont Aven, France; Ketchum, Idaho; and Bolinas, California. Light falling on water as a visual metaphor for the fleeting qualtity of experience is a central theme of the work.

Brooke has exhibited extensively, and her work is owned by the Guggenheim Museum, New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Des Moines Art Museum; the Swig Collection, San Francisco; and the Anderson Collection, Menlo Park, California. Her work has been widely reviewed, including in Art in America, The New York Times, and Artweek.

Certain places and circumstances exert an undeniable impulse to make art inspired by them in order to understand what they might mean. I am awed by the beauty of light falling on water and snow. This visual phenomena is a perfect natural metaphor for the ever changing flux in which we make our lives. I love things one can only see for an instant; they shock us into contemplation, thought and change.

– Pegan Brooke