re.riddle

April 17, 2018

I am pleased to announce my affiliation with re.riddle. Founder and principal of re.riddle, Candace Huey has been presenting unique programming, showcased through site-specific exhibitions and events in San Francisco, London, and Paris. re.riddle’s mission is to contribute to the discourse of contemporary art in thought-provoking and playfully subversive ways. With an emphasis on the whimsical, re.riddle hopes to arouse curiosity and promote an awareness of art in its many forms within our daily surroundings.

S-229, 230, 2016, oil on canvas, 60 x 42 in. each
 

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If So, What? at Palace of Fine Arts

April 26 - 29, 2018

My new paintings and an intimate video installation were shown in If So, What? (ISW), the inaugural edition of a new cultural event pairing art and design with sound and innovation in the Bay Area.

Transcending the traditional art fair model, ISW will create an immersive event that invites people to engage with art and design and encounter new experiences that connect people. The fair will feature exhibits by an international roster of curators, galleries and artists.

My work was shown by re.riddle.

If So, What?
Palace of Fine Arts
San Francisco

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SIMMER at Root Divison

March 28 - April 19, 2018

Installation shot from SIMMER at Root Division. Pegan Brooke diptych on left.

New paintings were shown in SIMMER, a group exhibition at Root Division in San Francisco, curated by Samantha Reynolds. At the center of SIMMER are the spaces, forms, and narratives that emerge through durational process. The artwork exhibited in this exhibition encourages viewers to sit within the work, allowing materials and conclusions to unfold and reveal themselves over time.

Participating artists: Annie Albagli, Becca Barolli, Pegan Brooke, Brad Brown, Jodi Connelly, Keith Daly + Christabel Soto, Eden V. Evans, Hunter Franks, Anna Landa, Masako Miyazaki, Karla Navarro, Harriet Poznansky, Minji Sohn

SIMMER
Root Division
San Francisco

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Pegan Brooke at Heather Gaudio Fine Art

April 20 - June 17, 2017

I was extremely thrilled to be a part of this beautifully curated exhibition at Heather Gaudio Fine Arts in New Canaan, CT. Please see the link below for images of work in the exhibition, mine and five other wonderful artists.

Pegan Brooke
Matters at Hand

Heather Gaudio Fine Art
heathergaudiofineart.com
 

This all-women exhibition explores an appreciation for the natural world, its beauty and ephemerality. Through the use of different mediums and a range of aesthetics, the artists share an attention to detail, an inherent curiosity and instinctual understanding of materiality. They are also keenly in tune with cultural narratives that remind us that we are all part of a universal continuum.

Turning to water and other natural environments for inspiration are the paintings by Pegan Brooke. Varying reflections of light and its fleeting essence are represented in patterned gradations of neutral to frosty and dark hues.   Brooke’s oils and added pigments are formed from pure elements of the earth, such as micas, pewter powders and iron oxides. The subtly shimmering surfaces slow us to a place where we can reconvene with our most basic contemplative, natural state of being. - Rachel Palacios of Heather Gaudio Fine Arts

Participating artists: Sarah Amos, Pegan Brooke, Beth Dary, Jessica Drenk, Valeria Nascimento, and Cheryl Ann Thomas   

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Pegan Brooke in Contemplative Practice

March 31 - June 23, 2017

3 PAINTINGS
3 VIDEO POEMS

6 new works were presented in the exhibition Contemplative Practice, curated by Courtney Gilbert at Sun Valley Center for the Arts.

S-204, 2016, oil on canvas, 60 x 44 in.

S-206, 2016, oil on canvas, 84 x 60 in.

Acceptance/Resistance: still from video poem "Trying to sit still for 5 minutes," 2016

Acceptance/Resistance: still from video poem "Reflecting" [video projected onto water], 2016

Acceptance/Resistance: still from video poem "Holding" [video projected onto the viewer's hands], 2016

What is the connection between art and contemplation? For centuries, artists producing work within various religious and cultural traditions have created objects that allow viewers to enter a contemplative or devotional mindset. From illuminated manuscripts and stained glass windows to temple carvings and Japanese Zen calligraphy, artwork has enriched spiritual experiences for generations.

But how do art and contemplation intersect outside established religious traditions? While certain works of art might unintentionally trigger a contemplative experience in a viewer, a number of contemporary artists are actively creating work that incorporates meditation and mindfulness both in terms of process and content.

Pegan Brooke makes nature-based abstract paintings that invite us to pause and to look closely to spend time immersed in the fields of muted color and light she presents on her canvases. Inspired by reflections of light on water or the movement of light through forests, Brooke's paintings consist of carefully organized grids, each constructed with precise gestural marks. Her paintings require that one "decelerate," as the art critic Mark Van Proyen has written. This exhibition features three of Brooke's paintings paired with some of her video poems, as well as a new interactive video installation - Courtney Gilbert, Curator of Visual Arts, Sun Valley Center for the Arts

Participating Artists: Dana Lynn Louis, Pegan Brooke, Meg Hitchcock, Serra Victoria Bothwell Fels
 

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Pegan Brooke at OCHI Gallery

February 13 - April 30, 2016

S-201 (detail), 2015, oil on canvas, 32 X 48 in.

PEGAN BROOKE
New Paintings

OCHI GALLERY
www.ochigallery.com

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Pegan Brooke at George Lawson Gallery

January 5, 2015

For exhibition 44 we are pleased to be showing in the front room a selection of recent paintings by Bay Area artist and San Francisco Art Institute instructor Pegan Brooke, her first with the gallery. In these works Brooke uses mica pigments with their characteristic shift in chroma depending on the angle of view, these mixed in oil and painted in rhythmic strokes up against an internal graphite line. The result is a diastole between containment and release, and another chapter added to the rich tome of painting's historical dialogue with drawing. Brooke's paintings have been exhibited at the Guggenheim Museum, SFMOMA, Oakland Museum, San Diego Museum of Art, DesMoines Museum and Art Center, Sao Paulo Biennial and the Monterey Museum of Art. She is the recipient of a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant, two Marin Arts Council Grants, an alternate award for the Prix de Rome, along with residencies at Millay Colony for the Arts in New York and the Pont Avon School. She lives and works in Bolinas, California.

PEGAN BROOKE
Selected Paintings
George Lawson Gallery
San Francisco

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