John Brooks is a Los Angeles-based visual artist and poet whose paintings explore the complexities of identity, memory, and queer experience. A recent transplant from Louisville, Kentucky, his work masterfully blends classical and contemporary styles, often featuring figures, still lifes, and landscapes with a tender, fluid quality. Known for a unique collage-like approach, Brooks’s art incorporates a wide range of influences from art history to pop culture, including a notable focus on poodles. His work creates a dialogue between past and present that is both deeply personal and universally resonant, and has been exhibited across the United States and Europe. His art is held in numerous private and institutional collections, including the Grinnell College Museum of Art and 21C Museum Hotels.
John Brooks
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John Brooks | “A Man with Clouded Eyes Picks Up the Rain” -
John Brooks | “Don’t Interrupt the Sorrow” -
John Brooks | “In a Room Where You Do What You Don’t Confess” -
John Brooks | “Millions of Us in Love” -
John Brooks | “I Hear a Song as Wonderful as the Nightingale” -
John Brooks | “A Case for the Sacredness of Something”
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John Brooks | “A Man with Clouded Eyes Picks Up the Rain” -
John Brooks | “Don’t Interrupt the Sorrow” -
John Brooks | “In a Room Where You Do What You Don’t Confess” -
John Brooks | “Millions of Us in Love” -
John Brooks | “I Hear a Song as Wonderful as the Nightingale” -
John Brooks | “A Case for the Sacredness of Something”