portraiture has been around since the beginning of time.  from cave man drawings, ancient greek sculpture, john singer sargent to andy warhol portraits just have never gone out of style.  hidell brooks has always been fascinated by figurative paintings in general.  

summer is almost here and we are loving virginia scotchie's colorful ceramic spheres to brighten up the landscape.  if you happen to be passing by queens university be sure to check out her installation of spheres in front of the belk chapel.

hidell brooks is thrilled to be handling the new line of fabrics and wallpapers by our wonderful artist amanda talley.  the line is a reinterpretation and translation of her artwork.

one of our wonderful artist miranda lake sent us a lovely book recently.  house proud: unique home design louisiana written by new orleans based interior designer and style maven valorie hart is a visual feast of innovatively designed homes in the state.

another awesome install this week by designer beth keim of lucy & co.  one thing is pretty clear starting a room with a piece of art a client loves results in something spetacular.

in love with our recent installation in a high rise overlooking downtown charlotte.  a pair of paintings by windy o'connor popped on the darker wall color especially in the lucite frames. both paintings are from her new series entitled pulling weeds.

hidell brooks gallery is delighted to be representing the work of ceramic artist virginia scotchie. virginia is the area head of ceramics at the university of south carolina in columbia, sc.  she holds a bfa in ceramics from unc-chapel hill and in 1985 completed her master of fine arts at alfred university in new york.

hidell brooks is overwhelmingly excited for the opening of selena beaudry's second solo exhibition color, cut, stripe and mark this friday night may 2nd from 6-8 pm.  selena arrived from london earlier this week to start the installation process for her show with the piece de resistance a nine by twelve foot cut paper collage.

big news around hidell brooks gallery.  my sweet daughter and rebecca's goddaughter peggy thomas had her first museum show this week!  we were on gallery business in new york when peggy told me over the phone her artwork a portrait of me no less had been picked to be in an exhibition of student art at the mint museum uptown.

awesome easter weekend install at figure eight island of two large paintings by jenny nelson.  hidell brooks is in awe of jenny's queitly powerful paintings.  jenny nelson attended maine college of art in portland, maine and graduated with a bfa from bard college where she received a scholarship to the lacoste school of the arts in france.