Brooke P. Alexander
Artist Statement
The blurry, dark, and shadowed places hidden among certainty steal my attention. They communicate a vast sense of time and setting and they convey both past and present. These spaces cannot be explicitly defined. They are reflections and explorations of the figures’ minds, providing a place for their physical bodies and their thoughts to live.
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My paintings communicate a space that requires engagement and that is not readily understood. The painted area changes as it invites and rejects visual entry. These ambiguous spaces begin when understood edges become unclear, objects merge into another, and uncertainty becomes apparent. They overlap, supersede, and fragment into one another and become disjointed. Within this tension, the significance and vastness of tangled space envelops the figures, grandly connecting place and form. The two push and pull against each other as the space threatens to overwhelm the presence of the figure. The figure emerges from the contested environment as a distinct dialogue from which the space stems.
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Brooke P. Alexander
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Education
2019 Gallery Curator for the John D. Williams Library, 2019
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2016 – 17 Graduate Coordinator of Gallery 130, The University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS
Experience
The University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS
Visiting Assistant Professor, Spring 2020
Beginning Painting
Drawing 1
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Visiting Assistant Professor, Fall 2019
Drawing 1 -- Two sections
2D Design
Color Theory
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Visiting Assistant Professor, Spring 2019
Drawing 1
Color Theory
Art Education
Visiting Assistant Professor, Fall 2018
Beginning Painting
Drawing 1
2-D Design
Instructor of Record, Spring 2018
Beginning Painting
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Fall 2017
Intermediate Painting
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Spring 2017
Beginning Painting
Instructor of Record, Fall, 2016
2-D Design
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Fall 2016
Intermediate Painting
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Spring 2016
Beginning Painting
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Fall 2015
Beginning Painting
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2018-19 Project Manager, Walton-Young House Art Installation, The University of Mississippi Museum, Oxford, MS
2018 Art Camp Teacher, Greenville Arts Council
2014 – 15 Library Work Study, Athens State University, Athens, AL
2014 Stage painting, Macbeth, Athenian Players, Athens State University, Athens, AL
Gallery Experience
2019 Gallery Curator for the John D. Williams Library, 2019
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2016 – 17 Graduate Coordinator of Gallery 130, The University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS
Exhibitions
2020 Group Bird Show, Southside Gallery, Oxford, MS, Invitation by gallery
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2019 My Studio, Zeuxis, Alabama Center for the Arts, Decatur, AL, Invitation by Zeuxis
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6 Ëš, Southside Gallery, Oxford MS, group show
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Fresh Paint: Painting the Mississippi Landscape, Southside Gallery, Oxford, MS
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Group Floral Show, Southside Gallery, Oxford, MS, Invitation by gallery
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Always Already There, Sally McDonald Barksdale Honors College, The University of Mississippi, solo show
2018 Drasticalities, Riverside Counseling & Consulting, Decatur, AL, solo show
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Chancellor’s Skybox Invitation¸Vaught-Hemingway Stadium, Oxford, MS, Invitation by Jeffrey Scott Vitter
Graduate Survey, Gallery 130, The University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS, group show
Sillage; MFA Thesis Exhibition, Gallery 130, The University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS, solo show
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Fresh Paint: Painting the Mississippi Landscape, Southside Gallery, Oxford, MS
Student Exhibition, J. D. Williams Library, Oxford, MS, Invitation by Dr. Kris Belden-Adams and Josh Brinlee
Faculty and Student Exhibition, Carrier House, Oxford, MS< Invitation by Ginny Chavis
Mississippi Collegiate Art Competition, The University of Mississippi Museum, Oxford, MS, Juried Exhibition, Juror: Dan Brawner, Chair, Graphic Design, Watkins College of Art, Design, & Film (Nashville, TN)
Embracing Art XVI: A Coming Together of Area Amateur & Professional Artists, Carnegie Visual Arts Center, Decatur, AL, Juried
Exhibition, Juror:
4th Juried Faculty & Alumni Exhibition, Alabama Center for the Arts, Decatur, AL, Juried Exhibition, Juror: John Oles
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2017 Art of Being Southern: Fourteen by Fourteen, The Johnson Center for the Arts, Troy, AL, Juried Exhibition, Juror: Richard Mills
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Summer Group Show, Southside Gallery, Oxford, MS
Fresh Paint: Painting the Mississippi Landscape, Southside Gallery, Oxford, MS
Drawing Discourse: 8th Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Drawing, University of North Carolina Asheville, Asheville, NC, Juried
Exhibition, Juror: Scott Noel
The Figure: Interpreted Through Contemporary Mediums, Sit: Brooklyn Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, Juried Exhibition, Juror: Barbara A.
MacAdam
2016 Vestiges, Masters of Fine Arts Candidates Group Show, Greater Memphis Area, TN, group show
Student Summer Exhibition, Gallery 130, Oxford, MS
3rd Juried Faculty and Alumni Show: Joyance, Alabama Center for the Arts, Decatur, AL
ArtFields, Lake City, SC
A Collection, (Solo Exhibition), Stephan, Land, McDavid, & Associates, PC, Oxford, MS
Grad Trio, W. O. Benjamin Fine Arts Center, Itawamba Community College, Fulton, MS
2015 Transitions: Graduate Student Exhibition, Meek Gallery, Oxford, MS
Embracing Art: A Coming Together of Amateur & Professional Artists, Carnegie Visual Arts Center, Decatur, AL, Juror: Tim Stevenson,
Professional Artist
Look: 2015 Spring Senior Art Exhibition, Alabama Center for the Arts, Decatur, AL
Group Drawing Exhibit, McClary’s, Decatur, AL
Festival of the Cranes Art Exhibit, Alabama Center for the Arts, Decatur, AL
2014 Pop Goes the Artist, Alabama Center for the Arts, Decatur, AL
Fresh Paint: Painting the Mississippi Landscape, Southside Gallery, Oxford, MS
2013 Unraveled: A Visual Response to the Ravel/Unravel Project, Omaha, NE, Juried Exhibition, Juror: Brigitte McQueen, Omaha, NE, The
Union for Contemporary Art, Founder, Beth Katz, Phoenix, AR, KatzDesignGroup, Commercial Interior Architect,Sierra Pirigyi, Omaha,
NE, Project Interfaith, Program Coordinator
Savory Jacks Show, Savory Jacks, Pulaski, Tennessee
2012 Alabama Center for the Arts Gala Exhibition, Alabama Center for the Arts, Decatur, AL