Amber Brookman has exhibited and sold work nationally and internationally and is represented in many private, corporate and hospitality collections and spaces around the world. In recent years geometric abstraction has dominated her artistic style with her underlying interests in the sciences providing inspiration.
Brookman’s mediums often include oils, resins, encaustics, as well as collage, fabric design and mixed media works. Her process driven art comes about through manipulation of materials and shapes to convey meaning. She works in many layers, adding and subtracting to reveal a history within a painting. Many of her works include things such as extra marble dust, or encaustic (wax) and resins which allow for cutting and carving into surfaces and creating matte areas as well as highly reflective areas. Brookman is currently working on a new body of work that will ultimately include painting as well as mixed media works, large scale sculpture, performance and experimental conceptual works of art addressing the ideas behind humans as integrated biophsychosocial beings, balancing the masculine and the feminine and mastering our nervous systems.
“I see my art as a sort of applied philosophy, or the embodiment of my seeking. In that way each piece is an extension of my life and being.” - amber brookman
I have been interested in art all my life. I have received awards, sold and shown work nationally and internationally. I worked in many artistic industries such as Galleries, Picture framing, Interior Design, Art Consulting, in addition I spent 20 years learning and teaching somatic inquiry which is now a part of my process...
Historically my works include oil and encaustic paintings, collage, acrylic, watercolor, fabrics... Currently I am expanding into multi-disciplinary work with elements of installation, video and performative work: merging my art, practices and processes to discover and document my quest for pure authenticity.
I enjoy reading about the big questions in life. Biology, Psychology, Sociology, consciousness and the search for a theory of everything. My reading informs my art work not to be illustrative but rather to be filtered through all of my bio-psycho-social self into tangible history.