Angie Elizabeth Brooksby was born in USA in 1965. She moved to Florence in 1986 after completing a BFA in sculpture from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. In the USA she studied with figurative sculptor John Shan, the son of realist painter Ben Shan; Fulbright scholar Gene Baldini and Margaret Dowell, Ph. D.
While living in Italy for 21 years she has fallen in love with Italian cuisine. Italian cuisine has become an important element in her paintings. She chooses to celebrate wine, olive oil and cheese in long canvases that are unreal tables adorned with archaic Tuscan Proverbs and names of wine. Her cuisine paintings have been described as an unusual approach to pop art. She likes to think of them as reminiscent of early Greek-Roman painting in particular xenia. Vetruvius said that xenia paintings were installed into the walls od ancient Roman villas as a welcoming to ones guests.
Angie Brooksby recently discovered the acrylic medium. She has a new approach to the ever magnificent Tuscan landscape, specifically the Chianti region. Although she loves to paint Italian food, Tuscany is a magnet for artists and Angie can paint it with her eyes closed. She loves to roam the windy roads near Castellina on her scooter sketching and photographing or when she can she paints from life. These new acrylic paintings are signed FIGE'. Fige' is a pet name that her ex-husband gave her after la bella figuera of the classic novel I Promessi Sposi by Manzoni.
In January 2007 she moved to Paris after 21 years of living in Florence and Tuscany because she fell in love with a french scientist she dated in her home town in the US 20 years ealier. She has an Atelier on Ivry in an old factory with about 50 other artists from all over the world. Currently she is painting Paris
Brooksby has shown her paintings in throughout Italy, Germany and the USA and now Paris. Her paintings are in corporate and private collections wordwide.
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Exhibitions & Galleries
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2007 March, Petit Vernissage, Paris
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2006 WINE and Tuscany, Castellina in Chianti.
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2006 March ARTEXPO NY .
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2005 TUSCANY'S LANDSCAPES AND WINE, Castellina in Chianti
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2004 XXXI Premio Sulomona. Sponsored by the Italian Ministry of fine art
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2003-2004 COSE BELLE, Albuquerque, NM.
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2002 PAINTINGS OF TUSCANY, Galleria Severini, Cortona.
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2002 HOCSC, Heidelberg.
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2002 XXIX Premio Sulmona.
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2001 LANDSCAPES OF TUSCANY, Palazzo Ferretti, Cortona
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2001 XXVIII Premio Sulmona.
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2000 ARTISTI IN FIERA, Parma Arte.
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2000 ARMONIA IN COLORE, sala Consigliare, Pontassieve, Firenze
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2000 PRIMA VIVANDA, Galleria la Tuscia, Certaldo
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1999-2001 South Wharf Gallery, Nantucket.
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1999 PREMIO ITALIA, Palazzo Pretorio, Certaldo. First Prize, painting.
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1999 IL VINO NEL ARTE, Homage to 20 Florentine painters, 63° Mostra Mercato dell'Artiginato, Sala della Scherma, Fortezza da Basso, Firenze.
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1999 UN FIUME E LE SUE TERRE, Villa Caruso, Lastra a Signa, Firenze
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1999 PREMIO SANTHIA', Santhià. Invitational sponsored by the Region of Piedmont.
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1999 XXVII PREMIO SULMONA.
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1998 PAINTINGS OF CHIANTI, La sala del Capitano, Castellina in Chianti
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1998 CON/SENSI, La Casa Degli Artisti G. Vittone, Tenno.
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1998 IL RACCONTACOLORI, in honor of Tommaso Paloscia, Oratorio di Foligno, Florence.
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1996-2001 Wendy Cooper Fine Art, Madison, Wisconsin.
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1990 BOTTEGA GIOVINAZZO, Florence.
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1989 SCULPTURE IN PROGRESS, Frederick County Festival of the Arts
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1988 CATAPETL GALLERY, Frederick Maryland.
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1985 TWO ARTISTS, Weinberg Center for the Artst, Frederick Maryland.
Art dealers:
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TV:
- 1996 Japanese TV for the program "totte oki sekai tabi."
- 2000 May 4th "Where in the world is Matt Lauer?" The Today Show, NBC
- 2000 May 5th CNN International
- Toscana TV with Fabrizio Borghini on several occasions
- 2006 March 2 The Today Show
Bibliography
- Carlo Fabrizio Carli, "Una Scelta di Plurismo" (A Choice of Pluralsim) catalouge of the XXXI Premio Sulmona Sep- Oct 2004.
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Leo Strozzieri, "Nel segno della coerenza" (In the sign of coherence) cataloge of the XXXI Premio Sulmona Sep Oct 2004.
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Leo Strozzieri, "Nel segno della coerenza" cataloge of the XXIX Premio Sulmona Sep Oct 2002.
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Karen Gardener, "Local artist has come a long way," The Frederick News Post, January 13th 1995 in occasion of a presentation of recent works where 30% of sales was donated to the Frederick County Arts association given at the Deleplaine Visual Arts Center.
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Roberta Fiorini, "Ironic daily Fables" Cover Story, Eco D'Arte Moderna July. Aug. Sept. 1999.
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