Alexander Brook (July 14, 1898 – February 26, 1980) – American artist and critic who was born in Brooklyn.[5] During his twenties, Brooks painted still lifes and posed figures with vigor and sensuality. He later began to emulate the style of Jules Pascin.[6] From 1924 to 1927 he was the assistant director of Whitney Studio Club.[7] His realist painting was exhibited widely and he won multiple awards.[6]Georgia Jungle won the Carnegie Prize at the Carnegie International art exhibition. Unfortunately for Brook, the realist style fell out of favor late in the 1940s.[6]
Marion Greenwood (April 6, 1909 – August 20, 1970) – painter and engraver who had lived in Brooklyn.[8]
Breuk Iversen (born July 25, 1964) – lived in Williamsburg, Brooklyn and is the founding member of the art collaborative known as "Offalists", using common refuse as a medium.[9]
Brooklyn Museum of Art in 1979. She exhibited regularly across North America in the 1940s and 1950s as well as overseas in France, Holland, Belgium, Switzerland, Greece, and Japan. Her work can be found in many museums, including the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia and the Morris Museum of Art in Augusta, Georgia.[12]
National Portrait Gallery
. He was also one of several artists to be shortlisted in 2006 for a proposed portrait of Queen Elizabeth of England.
David Salle (born September 28, 1952) – painter and leading contemporary figurative artist,[16] Salle helped define postmodern sensibility. His paintings and prints comprise what appear to be randomly juxtaposed images, or images placed on top of one other with deliberately ham-fisted techniques.
Danny Simmons (born August 17, 1953) – abstract-expressionist painter who was a Brooklyn resident in 2009[19][20][21] Simmons is the co-founder and Chairman of Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation (since 1995), which provides disadvantaged urban youth with arts access and education.[22] Simmons also founded Rush Arts Gallery and soon thereafter converted part of his loft in Brooklyn into the Corridor Gallery. Both galleries provide exhibition opportunities to early and mid-career artists who do not have commercial representation through galleries or private dealers.
Andrea Zittel (born September 6, 1965) – installation artist who has lived in Brooklyn[23] Zittel produced her first "Living Unit"—an experimental structure intended to reduce everything necessary for living into a simple, compact system—as a means of facilitating basic activities within her 200-square-foot (19 m2) Brooklyn storefront apartment.
^James, A. E., Reed, D. V., Adelman, E. M., Four Sisters Gallery., & North Carolina Wesleyan College. (1999). Southern women painters 1880-1940: The collection of A. Everette James, Jr. and Nancy Jane Farmer : the Four Sisters Gallery : celebrating the art of the Coastal Plain : October 21, 1999-February 25, 2000. Rocky Mount, NC: North Carolina Wesleyan College.
