BIO/CV

Elena Horowitz-Brookes

Bio

Elena Horowitz-Brookes began painting and drawing at the age of twelve. She enrolled in adult painting classes where she studied and was greatly influenced by the works of Cezanne, Matisse and the French Impressionist movement. Soon she began drawing and painting from the human figure. In the years to follow she remained active in figurative drawing, which remains the backbone of her structural approach to drawing and painting, whether abstract or abstract/figurative in nature.
 
Ms. Brookes attended Otis Art Institute for one year, then transferred to UCSB to study with noted watercolorist, William Dole. He expressed great enthusiasm for her unorthodox use of the watercolor medium. In the years to follow, she offered to the public several group and solo shows from her art studios in Los Angeles, as she continued to explore and experiment in various media, including encaustic on canvas.
 
Her current work includes painting on canvas, drawings in an array of materials, and watercolor. She explores an imaginary existence where earthly terrains, micro organisms, and spacial environments reside in altered states.

Resume

Solo Exhibitions:

Ventura College Santa Paula, Santa Paula, CA
"End of Bees", January 2015

Anacapa Brewing Company, Ventura, CA, 2012

Group Exhibitions:

The San Diego Museum of Art Artists Guild, 'Online International Summer Exhibition' San Diego, CA, Juror: Anita Feldman (Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs) San Diego Museum of Art June 8, 2021

Vander Plas Gallery, "Finding Water," Manhattan, Lower East Side,
New York, July 2, 2021

ARC Gallery, Women's Caucus for Art, National Exhibition,
"Containment: Stories of Art in Isolation" San Francisco, CA
Juror: Dasha Matsuura (Hashimoto Contemporary Art) San Francisco, CA
July 10, 2021


H Gallery, Ventura, CA, April, 2015
H Gallery, Ventura, CA, January, 2015
Vita Art Center, Group Show, Ventura, CA 2013
Oakland Community College, Michigan, "From Our Perspectives" 2012
St. Louis University Museum of Art, Contemporary Women Artists, St. Louis, Missouri, 2012
"Anonymous" Vita Art Center Gallery, Ventura, CA, 2011
En Rojo "In Red" Tool Room Gallery, Ventura, CA, 2011
Artwalk, Bell Arts Factory, Ventura, CA, 2011
"Art for the New Year" Tool Room Gallery, Ventura, CA, 2011
"Anonymous" Vita Art Center, Ventura, CA, 2010
Artists Union Gallery, Ventura, CA, 2010
Artwalk, Bell Arts Factory, Ventura, CA, 2010
"Anonymous" Vita Art Center, Ventura, CA, 2010
Juried Show, "March" Bell Arts Factory, Ventura, CA, 2010
"Anonymous" Vita Art Center, Ventura, CA, 2009


Press:

Ventura County Reporter, Art + Culture: featured review, "End of Bees", February 19, 2015
Fillmore Gazette, ‘End of Bees’ February 2, 2015
Ventura Breeze, Art Scene, January 24, 2012

Corporate Collection:
Roll International

Professional Affiliations:
Women's Caucus for Art
Los Angeles Art Association


Education:
Bachelor of Fine Art, University of California, Santa Barbara
Otis Art Institute, 1 year, pre-graduate, Los Angeles, CA
El Camino City College, Torrance, CA