Kimberly Brooks

Kimberly Brooks is an American artist and author. Her work blends figuration and abstraction with a focus on subjects related to memory, reality, history, representation, and identity. Early life and education Born in New York City as Kimberly Shlain, she is the daughter of Leonard Shlain and Carol (nee)Lewis. She grew up in Mill Valley, California. There she studied sculpture, drawing, and painting as a child. She attended UC Berkeley and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in literature. Following her graduation, she spent a year in Paris and attended the Sorbonne. She later studied painting at UCLA and Otis College of Art and Design. Work Painting and multimedia Brooks' first solo exhibition, The Whole Story, was held at the Risk Press Gallery in Los Angeles in 2006. It featured a series of segmented paintings which investigated the role of women as artists and models. Brooks used erotic imagery and fragmentation to examine the historical glorification of women's bodies to present the female image within a feminist representation.