“Brooke Harker’s approach to the image of a city – of any environment, actually, but a city’s most particularly – insists that our experience of a place emerges from a wealth of phenomena, smaller and larger, interacting and giving one another a reason to exist. Harker’s method, reliant equally on drawing and painting throughout even the most painterly tableau, does not simply thrust us into the middle of a bustling street; it dissolves the street and reassembles it around our vision, as if we had been dreaming, been jolted awake, and found ourselves beholding a scene at once instantly recognizable and entirely alien.”
– Peter Frank- art critic for The Huffington Post, Fabrik Magazine
“Brooke Harker illustrates with her meticulous descriptive art the continuous movement of a metropolis and the incessant flow of its tumultuous traffic in the city of cinema, Los Angeles, where Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Santa Monica, Venice, Culver City, Malibu, The Arts District, Chinatown, Koreatown, Little Bangladesh, Thai Town, Little Ethiopia, Mexico and Little Tokyo all coexist- in short, where you can find the whole world.”
– Alfio Borghese- curator & arts journalist, Rome, Italy
“Brooke Harker’s paintings are an intriguing window of Southern California, offering a vision impossible to communicate through photography. Her lively, multi-layered paintings, particularly the intricately detailed cityscapes, communicate to the viewer a spirit of place that is revelatory, transforming everyday street scenes into transcendent environments. Essentially, these paintings do what all good art should: remind us that beauty and magic are all around us.”
– Jonathan Jerald, former director of LADAD’s District Gallery, Los Angeles
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