Sarah E. Brook (born 1981) is an American sculptor and installation artist.

Career

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Sarah E. Brook was born in Reno, Nevada and currently lives in Brooklyn, NY.[1] Their practice is influenced by the Light and Space Movement and the Land Art Movement, particularly artists such as Robert Irwin, Nancy Holz and Walter De Maria, bringing a lens of queer identity and personal narrative to those traditions.[2][3]

Significant public art commissions include Viewfinding (2018) in Riverside Park South, supported by New York City Department of Parks and Recreation and Riverside Park Conservancy;[3][4] The Need You Know It Is A Letting Light (2022), commissioned by BRIC Arts Media and supported by New York City Department of Parks and Recreation and Prospect Park Alliance;[5][6][7] Worthy (2021), installed at Poly Prep as part of a yearlong teaching artist in residency;[8] A permanent installation in City Harvest's NYC Hub (2022);[9] Portal (2019) at the Governors Island Art Fair;[10] and a permanent commission by the Crystal Foundation (2019);[11]

Brook often incorporates text into their works, and has collaborated with queer and trans writers in public projects at the Sweet Lorraine Gallery in Brooklyn (2024)[12] and Riverside Park, NYC (2018), in a piece covered by The New York Times.[4] Writing collaborators include CAConrad, Joy Ladin, Spencer Reece, Timothy Liu, Jen Currin, Leslea Newman, Rachel Rose and 2024 Guggenheim Poet in Residence Meg Day.[13] [3]

Brook has also exhibited at the NYC Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art in 2021 with curator Avram Finkelstein[14], the 2019 Brooklyn BRIC Biennial[15][16], Open Source Gallery in Brooklyn (2021),[17][18] the Pfizer building in Brooklyn (2018), [19] Turley Gallery in Hudson, NY (2022),[20] and Glass House Projects (2022). [21] In 2020 Brook was interviewed by Yale University Radio,[22] and in 2022 created a new collaborative work with Sara Jimenez for the Artist Space Segue Reading Series. [23]

Awards and residencies

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References

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  1. ^ https://issuu.com/bricartsmedia/docs/bric_biennial_2019_catalog
  2. ^ https://www.bhphotovideo.com/explora/video/features/bric-bh-celebrate-brooklyn-artists-media-arts-fellow-sarah-e-brook
  3. ^ a b c https://www.bustle.com/p/a-new-public-art-display-in-nyc-features-the-works-of-26-lgbtq-poets-heres-a-peek-at-the-poems-11619716</
  4. ^ a b https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/21/arts/design/summer-outdoor-art-new-york.html
  5. ^ https://bricartsmedia.org/exhibition/sarah-e-brook-the-need-you-know-it-is-a-letting-light/
  6. ^ https://secretnyc.co/art-installation-prospect-park-nyc/
  7. ^ https://www.brooklynpaper.com/prospect-park-bandshell-art-installation/
  8. ^ https://www.polyprep.org/news/sarah-e-brooks-artist-residency-illuminates-poly/
  9. ^ https://www.cityharvest.org/2023/02/01/sarah-e-brook/
  10. ^ https://4heads.org/governors-island-art-fair-2018/
  11. ^ https://www.crystalpark.org/align-sarah-e-brook
  12. ^ https://artinnewyorkcity.com/2024/04/27/expanded-observance-psalm-by-sarah-e-brook-at-sweet-lorraine-gallery/
  13. ^ https://www.guggenheim.org/press-release/the-guggenheim-museum-announces-meg-day-as-its-2024-poet-in-residence
  14. ^ https://leslielohman.org/exhibitions/omniscient-queer-documentation-in-an-image-culture
  15. ^ https://brooklynrail.org/2019/03/artseen/Bric-Biennial-Volume-III-The-Impossible-Possible
  16. ^ https://archive.bricartsmedia.org/blog/meet-few-bric-biennial-south-brooklyn-artists
  17. ^ https://open-source-gallery.org/sarah-e-brook/
  18. ^ https://open-source-gallery.org/artist-talk-sarah-e-brook/
  19. ^ https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamlehrer/2018/05/21/curator-efrem-zelony-mindell-brings-together-57-artists-at-phizer-building-for-re-art-show-21/?sh=505803a111a8
  20. ^ https://www.turley.gallery/the-drawing-room-006
  21. ^ https://www.glasshouseproject.org/events/2022/5/30/shanti-grumbine-lapse
  22. ^ https://museumofnonvisibleart.com/interviews/sarah-e-brook/
  23. ^ https://artistsspace.org/programs/segue-reading-series-sarah-e-brook-sara-jimenez
  24. ^ https://www.montellofoundation.org/pages/montello_home.htm
  25. ^ https://www.stoveworks.org/resident-alumni
  26. ^ https://www.marblehouseproject.org/residency-45/2021/10/5/sarah-brook
  27. ^ https://annapidgorna.com/i-park-residency/
  28. ^ https://www.leslielohman.org/content/fellowship
  29. ^ https://www.polyprep.org/news/artist-sarah-e-brooks-sculpture-installed/
  30. ^ https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgGGDfnWuhphpjtv6NhF6VMRTufx_rJqJ
  31. ^ https://www.spaceonryderfarm.org/2018-residents
  32. ^ https://jentelarts.org/residents/
  33. ^ https://playasummerlake.org/alumni/
  34. ^ https://www.khncenterforthearts.org/resident/sarah-e-brook
  35. ^ https://viridianartist.com/news-1/?offset=1406239080792