Ellen Brooks is an American photographer whose work has been included in several recent contemporary photography exhibitions in the U.S. and Europe. She began her studies in sculpture and photography at the University of Wisconsin in Madison but completed her B.A. at the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1968. Brooks also earned her M.A. in 1970 and her M.F.A. in 1971 from the same school. Her first solo exhibition took place at the University of Nevada Art Gallery in Las Vegas in 1976. Her teaching experience includes the San Francisco Art Institute from 1973 to 1982 and the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University since 1984. Brooks creates large impressionistic color photographs. Using commercial images from books, magazines, and other sources, she uses acrylics to paint the images and then re-photographs them through a diffusion screen, which results in mysterious, almost unreadable images that appear as points of colored light against a black background.
Ellen Brooks
Studios
Alexander
Ellen Brooks worked in the Alexander studio.
Funded through the generous support of Elizabeth Alexander, this studio was built in memory of her late husband, the renowned portrait painter John White Alexander (1856-1915). Originally designed as a visual art gallery, Marian MacDowell persuaded Elizabeth that the space would better serve the arts if commissioned as a visual…