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Join us! Saturday May 7, 2022 from 5-10pm

Enjoy the colors of Italy with us! The exhibit will run in Los Angeles until May 28th at Michael Hayden Gallery.

If you are a collector of my art and haven’t received a message about the preview, send a reply to get details.

Read more about the exhibit featured below in LA Art Party.

close up detail above on “Manarola Memories” by Brooke Harker

“Buona Fortuna” featured on LA Art Party.com:

“Buona Fortuna: Paintings by Brooke Harker” will open at Michael Hayden Gallery in Los Angeles on Saturday May 7, 2022 from 5-10pm at 4413 West Jefferson Blvd #B until May 28, 2022. The exhibit features colorful depictions of Italian towns along the sea from the famous cliffs of Cinque Terre. One of the paintings in the exhibit, titled “Cliff Notes,” speaks to the idea that paintings of such places along the cliffs only begin to capture a bit of the magic in the culture of Italy.

“Buona Fortuna,” translates to “good luck” or “good fortune” and reference’s Harker’s experiences in Italy, made possible by saying yes to the magic of life and being open to possibilities. Anyone who has experienced the tastes, sounds and sights of Italy may find themselves transported from these paintings into their own memories or into dreams of future places to soak in the beauty of life.

This exhibit is dedicated to the over one hundred and seventy individuals and companies who supported Harker’s initial painting residency in Italy in 2015. It was on that trip that she gained the reference images for this exhibit, although it wasn’t her first trip to Cinque Terre.  Harker made her first original sketch of Manarola, in Cinque Terre, as a college student working for the U.S. Military for the summer in Vicenza, Italy. Over two decades later this exhibit shares the realization of a dream and the progress made along the way.

In particular, Harker credits the fruition of this exhibit to the Italian curator, the noble Alfio Borghese of Rome, who said to her, “If you want to paint Italy, you have to know the heart of Italy and the heart of Italy is in the people.”

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We would love to see you there!

Grazie mille,