“I make playfully abstract and gestural paintings using acrylic paint on canvas. When painting, I use the arc of my whole arm to create forms and shapes that reflect a physical relationship to the canvas, and a sense of movement throughout. I work in this way to keep the work open and fluid so that the painting appears to be breathing or otherwise shifting in space. I have long considered my abstract paintings to be a mixture of portraiture (of a shape) and also as signs or signals communicating some urgent feeling without words.” Brooke has a Master of Fine Arts from New York University and a Bachelor of Arts from Bard College.