Brook R. Maher has been working from her Flat Iron Building studio in Peekskill, New York for nearly 20 years. Her current focuses are colorful portraiture and mosaics, including private and public installations. Always open to experimentation with new media, Ms. Maher has recently exhibited mixed-media sculpture in Putnam and Westchester Counties in New York.
“Whether I portray people, domestic objects, animals or buildings, my subjects tend to inhabit a shallow picture plane in which everything compatibly jostles to occupy the crowded foreground. My love of bold color, line and shape as well as intricate, fabric-inspired patterns, gives my work a graphic quality. My work is joyful. Stylistic influences include Japanese prints, European and American artists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, medieval illuminations and tapestries, 20th century African-American artists, ‘primitive’ and ‘folk art’ designs and textiles from around the world. There is always an element of story-telling to my art.”
Among Ms. Maher 's accomplishments are a privately-commissioned mosaic mural based on Google Earth images of the Hudson Valley. In 2009-2010, Ms. Maher designed, worked on and acted as artist/consultant for an 8 by 24-foot mosaic mural at Walter Panas High School in Cortlandt Manor, NY. She has also created mosaic planters for South Broadway in Yonkers. Peekskill’s Riverfront Green features a mural map of the Hudson designed by Ms. Maher. Ms.Maher is currently working on a large, outdoor mosaic mural titled "MANNA TO THE BIRDSALL HOUSE".
In 2010, Ms. Maher began dividing her time between Peekskill and Taos, New Mexico, where she has a house, THE SKIES AT TAOS, and a studio. The art-rich and highly scenic and spiritual environment of Taos inevitably flavors and informs her work.
“Whether I portray people, domestic objects, animals or buildings, my subjects tend to inhabit a shallow picture plane in which everything compatibly jostles to occupy the crowded foreground. My love of bold color, line and shape as well as intricate, fabric-inspired patterns, gives my work a graphic quality. My work is joyful. Stylistic influences include Japanese prints, European and American artists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, medieval illuminations and tapestries, 20th century African-American artists, ‘primitive’ and ‘folk art’ designs and textiles from around the world. There is always an element of story-telling to my art.”
Among Ms. Maher 's accomplishments are a privately-commissioned mosaic mural based on Google Earth images of the Hudson Valley. In 2009-2010, Ms. Maher designed, worked on and acted as artist/consultant for an 8 by 24-foot mosaic mural at Walter Panas High School in Cortlandt Manor, NY. She has also created mosaic planters for South Broadway in Yonkers. Peekskill’s Riverfront Green features a mural map of the Hudson designed by Ms. Maher. Ms.Maher is currently working on a large, outdoor mosaic mural titled "MANNA TO THE BIRDSALL HOUSE".
In 2010, Ms. Maher began dividing her time between Peekskill and Taos, New Mexico, where she has a house, THE SKIES AT TAOS, and a studio. The art-rich and highly scenic and spiritual environment of Taos inevitably flavors and informs her work.
