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  Brooke Pickett

Born 1980
Shreveport, Louisiana

Education
2002
B.A., Literature, Louisiana State University
2002
B.A., Painting, Louisiana State University
2005
M.F.A., Painting, University at Albany, State University of New York


Solo

The Center Cannot Hold: Paintings and Drawings by Brooke Pickett,
The Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans Louisiana

Group Exhibitions


2011
NOLA: NOW, The Contemporary Arts Center, curated by Amy Mackie, New Orleans Louisiana

Everyday Abstractions, The Front, New Orleans Louisiana

2009
Exhibition in the Woolworth Windows for Tacoma Contemporary, Tacoma Washington

Presentation/Exhibition, Hotel Pupik, St. Lorenzen bei Sheifling, Austria

All Roads Lead To Coney Island, A.M. Richard Fine Art, Brooklyn, NY


2008
DIWhy?, Ontario Craft Council, Toronto, Ontario

Hand Drawn, Storefront Artists Project, Pittsfield, Massachusetts

In September, Parts Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

2005
Fall MFA Thesis Exhibition, University Museum, University at Albany, New York

Artists of the Mohawk Region, Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, New York

2004
Center Fusion, Albany Center Galleries, Albany, New York

The Best of SUNY Student Art Exhibition, State University Plaza, Albany, New York

2002
New Work, Triangle Cultural Center, Yazoo City, Mississippi

Recent Work, Gallery One Eighteen, Brookhaven, Mississippi

Spirit of America, Ann Connelly Gallery, Baton Rouge, Louisiana

2001
Juried Show: Juror Bill Jenson, University Museum, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Awards and Grants
2009
Artist in Residence, Hotel Pupik, Schrattenberg, Austria

2007
Artist in Residence, Virginia Center for Creative Arts

Professional Experience

2010
Founder and Director of Central City Artist Project
Visiting Assistant Professor of Painting, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont

2009
Visiting Assistant Professor of Painting, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont

2008
Visiting Assistant Professor of Painting, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont

2005
Graduate Assistant, Instructor of Record for Life Drawing, SUNY Albany, New York

2004
Graduate Assistant, Instructor Beginning Drawing, SUNY Albany, New York

2003
Teaching Assistant, Advanced Painting, SUNY Albany, New York
Teaching Assistant, Beginning Painting, SUNY Albany, New York

Bibliography
'The Center Cannot Hold: Paintings and Drawings by Brooke Pickett' Brianna Smyck, NolaVie, June, 2011

'Pickett's Re-Charge' Kathy Rodriguez, NOLA Defender, July 2011

'The Center Cannot Hold,' Eric Bookhardt, Gambit, August 2011

'Things Fall Apart: Brooke Pickett's Broken Pieces' Amelie G, September 2011

Gambit, paper of arts and culture, 'Best of' New Orleans, LA, March 2011

'An Artist and His Friends Take on bin Laden' Roberta Smith, New York Times, January 2011

The New York Observer Summer Arts Guide, All Roads Lead to Coney Island, July, 2009

Greenpoint Gazette, Brooklyn Activists Act to Save Coney Island, June 2009

Metroland, paper of arts and culture, Albany, New York, July 2005, Vol. 28, No. 27

Enterprise Journal, newspaper, McComb, Mississippi, May 2002