About: Artist Brooke Marks-Swanson

MFA, School of Art and Design, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois. 2003
BFA, School of Fine Arts, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. 2000

The subtleties of my current residence, the Midwestern landscape, provide information and stimulation. I am drawn to the beauty of things imperfect, impermanent and incomplete. Conditions make impressions and patinas on objects; the imperfect, variegated textures and forms resulting drive me to make objects. I create painted metal wall sculptures and objects from these inspirations; my work evokes a sense of place. I portray my passion of working in metal through fabrication, chasing, mark making, scratching, and removing; resulting in pieces that provide information of the past while speaking of the present. My objective is to cause the viewer to speculate, imagine and to investigate, in a personal way, those issues relative to a sense of beauty, which drives the focus of my research.

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