Sale on canvas prints! Use code ABCXYZ at checkout for a special discount!

Bruce Brooks Art Collections

Shop for artwork from Bruce Brooks based on themed collections. Each image may be purchased as a canvas print, framed print, metal print, and more! Every purchase comes with a 30-day money-back guarantee.

Artwork by Bruce Brooks

Each image may be purchased as a canvas print, framed print, metal print, and more! Every purchase comes with a 30-day money-back guarantee.

About Bruce Brooks

Bruce Brooks Coming soon...Bruce Brooks

Resides:
Brooklyn, New York
Phone: (718) 875-7012
Website:bwbrooks.artistwebsites.com
E-Mail: bwbrooks@verizon.net

Education:
BFA 1970
MFA 1975
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, N.Y.

Selected One-Person Exhibitions:200

2005-present: Works shown to Artists and Friends at 108 Wyckoff Street
2004-05 La Guardia Community College, Trees of Blood Sabbatical works
1995-1996 Broadway Windows, NYC, November through January 31, 1996
1993 OK Harris Works of Art, New York, March
1990 OK Harris Works of Art, New York, June
1988 St. Peter�s Church at Citicorp Center, New York, Spring
1985 SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, New York
1984 Queens Museum, New York
1983 OK Harris Works of Art, New York
1983 OK Harris West, Works of Art, Scottsdale, Arizona
1982 Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA.
1982 Lawrence Oliver Gallery, Philadelphia, PA.
1981 OK Harris Works of Art, New York, N.Y.
1981 Webb and Parsons, New Canaan, CT.
1979 Ron Hunnings Fine Art, New York, N.Y.
1976 Lotus Gallery, New York, N.Y.

Selected Group Exhibitions:
2011 911 revisited, LAGCC Presidents Gallery, curated by Kristin Jefferson
2009 WAH Center, Artist Couples
2003 Seton Hall Laww School, Abstract Paintings Summer
2001 Tobey Fine Arts, �Dirty Drawings� 3/2001
1999 Brooklyn Heights Montessori School, Jan. Benefit auction
1997 LaGuardia Community College, CUNY, �Faculty Works�, Feb-March.
1997 Museum of the Moving Image, Queens, N.Y. Jan. �Earthquake�
1996 �Masks� Southby�s, Dec. auction of masks created afor fund raiser for
children in Israel.
1991 Norton Center, Centre College, October-November, �Center Pieces�,
Danville, Kentucky
1990 Zimmerman-Saturn Gallery, Nashville, Tenn. October
1990 City Without Walls Gallery, Newark, N.J.
1990 Long Island University Art Gallery, �Show Your Metal�, Brooklyn,
N.Y.
1988 SUNY New Paltz Art Gallery, �Recent Acquisitions, Works from the
Permanent Collection�
1987 Studio K Gallery, LI City, N.Y. LaGuardia CC Faculty Exhibition
1986 Shanghai University, China, �Approaches to Abstraction�, CUNY Faculty
Exhibition
1986 DIFFA, Andre Bon Studio, AIDS Benefit Auction and Exhibition
1986 William Paterson College,N.J., �Color in the Third Dimension� March
1985 Webb and Parsons, New Canaan, CT.
1984 Webb and Parsons, New Canaan, CT.
1983 OK Harris West, Scottsdale, Arizona
1983 Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, N.Y. �Distinguished Alumni Invitational�
SOHO 20, continuation of above
1983 OIA Greenspace, New York, N.Y. �Paper Transformations�, Curated
by Susan Lubowsky
1982 Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, N.Y. �Wall Reliefs�
1982 Lawrence Oliver Gallery, Phila. PA., �Group Show�
1982 Zone Gallery, Springfield Mass.
1982 Marion Koogler McNay Institute, San Antonio, Texas
1982 Queens Museum, Queens, N.Y. �The Artist as Teacher�
1982 Myers Fine Arts Gallery, SUNY Plattsburg, Plattsburg, N.Y.
1981-1984 Mississippi Museum of Art, Traveling Exhibition entitled �Collage
Assemblage�
1981 OK Harris West, Scottsdale, Arizona
1981 Tyler School of Art, �Three Dimensional Painting�, Phila, PA.
1981 Alexander Carlson Gallery, New York, N.Y.
1980 Race Gallery, Phila., PA.
1979 Ron Hunnings Gallery, New York, N.Y.
1979 OK Harris Works of Art, �Summer Invitational�, New York
1977 Pratt Institute, Brooklyn New York, �Faculty Drawings�
1975 New York Institute of Technology, Old Westbury, N.Y.
� Fine Arts Faculty Invite Artists�
1971 Star Turtle Gallery, New York, N.Y.
1970 The Museum, an Organization of Living Artists, New York, N.Y.

Selected Collections:

Ms. Pam Adler, N.Y.
Delmar Hendricks, N.Y.
Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Karp, N.Y.
Watson Powell Jr., Des Moines, Iowa
Ron Hunnings, New York, N.Y.
Carlo and Catherine LaMagna, N.Y.
Mr. and Mrs. Terence LaNoue
Ms. Susan Lubowsky, Washington DC
Robert Harper, Scottsdale, Arizona
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Mangel, Phila.
Ms. Dorothy Ross, Malaga, Spain
Mr. and Mrs. William Webb, Florida
Raymond Zimmerman, Nashville, Tenn.
Champion Clothes
MPI Corporation, Washington, DC
Prudential Life Insurance Company of America, Newark, N.J.
Sydney and Francis Lewis, Richmond, VA.
Skowhegan College, Maine
SUNY New Paltz
The Queens Museum, New York

Grants and Awards:

1983-1984 PSC- CUNY Research Fellowship, �Free Standing Paintings�
1985-1986 PSC- CUNY Research Fellowship, �Painted Constructions�
1994-1995 PSC- CUNY Research Fellowship, �Three Dimensional Paintings�

Bibliography:

1984, April, New York Newsday, Art Review, �Three Dimensional Abstracts�
Malcolm Preston
1983, February, Scottsdale Daily Progress, �Time, Effort Apparent�
Katheryn Coe
1983, Catalog, �Paper Transformations�, OIA Greenspace
Introduction by Susan Lubowsky
1983, January, The Brooklyn Heights Phoenix, �Sculpture Show at
Rotunda Gallery Right on the Art Market Wall�
Harold Garde
1983, January, Flatbush Life �Another Dimension at Rotunda Gallery�
Toby Anne Hempel
1982, Catalog, �Collage and Assemblage�, Mississippi Museum of Art Jackson, Miss.
1981, February, Artspeak, �The New in Current Art�
William Pellicone
1981, Catalog, �Color on Structure�, William Paterson College, Wayne, N.J.
Introduction by Nancy Einrenhoffer
1981, September, Connecticut Newspapers Inc., �Permanence is Elusive in a
Throwaway World�, by Jacqueline Moss

Administrative and Teaching Experience:

2001 to 2011, Director Visual Art and Design Programs, Professor of Art
1990-2001, Director Commercial Photography Programs
LaGuardia Community College, CUNY
1980-present, Co-Director of Exhibitions for The Lobby Showcase Galleries both
East and West, President�s Lobby Gallery, Dean of Administration Lobby
Gallery, and the College at large.
LaGuardia Community College, CUNY
1985-1987, Coordinator, Visual Arts Area in the Humanities Department
LaGuardia Community College, CUNY
1975-1985, Senior College Lab Tech, Art Area,
LaGuardia Community College, CUNY
1973-1979, Visiting Lecturer in Painting and Drawing
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn N.Y.
1972-1975, Assistant to the Chairman, Undergraduate Painting and Drawing Dept.,
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, N.Y.
1971-1972, Art Teacher grades 7-12, U-32 High School, Montpelier Vt.
I am licensed for K-12 in New York State and in Vermont
2004- Licensed �Citizen Pruner� by the NYC Dept. of Parks

Additional Selected Lectures:

1985, Artists Talk on Art, �Manifestations of Drawing�, Selected and
moderated panel discussion on the roots of drawing.
1985, SUNY New Paltz, Gallery lecture in conjunction with my one person
exhibition.
1983, Gallery talk at the OK Harris Gallery, NYC
1983, Webb and Parsons Gallery, Conn. Gallery talk
1981, William Paterson College, N.J. �Color on Structure� gallery talk
1973, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, N.Y. �Faculty Drawings� panel discussion.
1972, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, N.Y. �Art in Secondary Education� slide- talk.