BROOK R. MAHER
◙ P.O. Box 2215, El Prado, NM 87529 (Mailing Address)
◙ 44 Melaringa Road, El Prado, NM 87529 (Studio)
◙ Mobile phone: (914)450-7833
◙ E-mail: [email protected]
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
TAOS FALL ARTS FESTIVAL, TAOS, NM 2017
CENTINEL BANK OF TAOS, TAOS, NM
"Where I'm Coming From: Portraits by Brook R. Maher", February, 2017
BEALE STREET BARBER SHOP, PEEKSKILL, NY
"One Barber, Five Heads", November 2013-January 2014
COLLABORATIVE CONCEPTS AT SAUNDERS FARM, GARRISON, NY
The Farm Project 2013, 2014
TAOS CENTER FOR THE ARTS, TAOS, NM
"Annual Taos Artists' Self-Portraits Show" (juried), 2012, 2017
HUDSON VALLEY HOSPITAL CENTER, CORTLANDT, NY
"Five Corners", 2012
BEANRUNNER CAFÉ, PEEKSKILL, NY
"Women: The Rock, the Root, the Foundation", 2014, Part of "Peekskill, The Power of Women Artists" 2014
“Working in Proximity”, 2010
BLUE DOOR GALLERY, YONKERS, NY
“Women about Women, A broad introspective retrospective”, 2010
“Windows to the Soul”, 2006
CHAPPAQUA LIBRARY GALLERY, CHAPPAQUA, NY
“Expressive Portraits”, 2001
CULPEPPER GALLERY, ABRONS ARTS CENTER, HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT, NEW YORK, NY
“The Flag Project”, 2002
FLATIRON GALLERY, PEEKSKILL, NY
Group Shows, 2002, 1999, 1998, 1997
HIGHLAND CULTURAL CENTER, HIGHLAND, NY
5th National Juried Art Exhibition, 1998
JOHNSON ARTS CENTER, MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE, MIDDLEBURY, VT
Alumni Art Exhibit, 1999
OSSINING ARTS COUNCIL, OSSINING, NY
Juried Show, 2002
MAXWELL FINE ARTS, PEEKSKILL, NY
Holiday Salon Show, Peekskill, NY, 2003 – 2004
PARAMOUNT CENTER FOR THE ARTS, PEEKSKILL, NY
Curator, Carla Rae Johnson, MS, BFA: "Brains, Boobs & Backbones - Women Artists/ Women's Issues", Part of "Peekskill, The Power of Women Artists" 2014
Curator, W. Garber, Flatiron Gallery, Peekskill, NY: “Interiors”, 2010; “The Majestic Hudson”, 2007-2008; “Musical Visions”, 2006- 2007; “Salon”, 1999-2000; “Pathways to Peace”, 2010-2011
Curator, Marcy B. Freedman: “Remembrance of Things Past: Memory into Art”, 1998
Annual Juried Shows, 1991, 1992, 1994
PEEKSKILL, COFFEE HOUSE, PEEKSKILL, NY
Group show with Berenice Pliskin and Howard Goodman –2004
WESTCHESTER ARTS WORKSHOP/ WESTCHESTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE GALLERY, PEEKSKILL, NY
“A Sense of Self”, 2005
Open Studios in Peekskill’s Artist District, 2000 and 2002
WESTCHESTER ARTS COUNCIL, WHITE PLAINS, NY
“Ordinary/Extraordinary”, Open Studios Invitational, 2000
Open Studios Event, 1999
WESTCHESTER COUNTY CENTER, WHITE PLAINS, NY
“Home Sweet Home: Visions of Home by Contemporary Westchester Artists”, 2001
YONKERS WATERFRONT DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION, YONKERS, NY
“Peace Actualized”, 2005
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
CROTON FREE LIBRARY, CROTON-ON-HUDSON, NY: "Acrylic Portraits: 1995-2014", 2014
FLATIRON GALLERY, PEEKSKILL, NY: “We All Are Here”, 1997
GILBERT GALLERY, MISS PORTER’S SCHOOL, FARMINGTON, CT: “Sleepers, Teens and Shopkeepers”, 2004
GREENBURGH PUBLIC LIBRARY, GREENBURGH, NY: “Singular and Plural”, 2002
HENDRICK HUDSON FREE LIBRARY, MONTROSE, NY: “Shopkeepers and Other Portraits”, 2001
HARWINTON PUBLIC LIBRARY, HARWINTON, CT: “Mostly Color”, 1995
AWARDS, GRANTS:
Image Artist, TAOS FALL ARTS FESTIVAL, 2017
Designer and Consulting Artist, “From the Orchard”, a mosaic mural, funded by the Lakeland Education Foundation, 2009-2010
Painted trash receptacles funded by Blue Door Artists’ Association, Yonkers, NY, 2007
Mosaic planters funded by South Broadway Business Improvement District, Yonkers, NY, 2006
Peekskill’s Riverfront Green Mosaic Mural funded by Ginsburg Development Corporation, Bank of New York and Hudson Valley Bank, 2004
Paramount Center for the Arts Special Tribute Award, 2000
State of New York Executive Chamber Certificate of Merit, 2000
U.S. House of Representatives Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition, 2000
New York State Assembly Citation, 2000
Certificate of Merit, Highland Cultural Center 5th National Juried Art Exhibition, Highland, NY, 1998
AFFILIATIONS:
Field Library, Peekskill, NY, Trustee, 2012 to present; Peekskill Arts Council –member, Board of Directors- 2006-8; Society of American Mosaic Artists 2010; Blue Door Artists Association; Garden Fairies mosaic project, Florida, volunteer, 2003; Town Wall Muralists -Volunteer, 1996; Paramount Center for the Arts (served on Visual Arts Committee -1990); Katonah Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, member.
PUBLICATIONS, MEDIA:
Artsnews
June 2004, “Peekskill Artists District, Peekskill Studio Tours: June 12-13”, page A5
Channel 12, Cable TV
2003, Featured artist, “Peekskill Arts with Victor Margiotta”
Gannett Newspapers
Sunday, May 24, 1998, Art Scene, “Peekskill’s Artist District Will Roll Out the Welcome Mat” by Georgette Gouveia
Highland Flyer
Volume 1, Issue 6; 1997, “Seen in Passing” by Carole Stewart
The Journal News
Sunday, November 15, 2009, YORKTOWN & CORTLANDT, “Students create mosaic mural”, page 5D
Friday, May 20, 2005, Communities, page 3B, “Inspired by the River”
Saturday, July 31, 2004, Local News, pages 1B, 4B, “A MOSAIC ON THE HUDSON: Artists raise funds for outdoor mural in Peekskill” by Marcela Rojas
Sunday, July 14, 2002, “Across Our Towns” and “Art, Libraries”
June 2, 2000, Living, “Seeking out the extraordinary in the everyday” by Georgette Gouveia, page 1E
Peekskill Government Channel, Cable TV
February15 -22, 2001, Meet the City (studio tour and interview)
MidHudsonNews.Com
Monday, October 11, 2004, “Peekskill mosaic artwork gains corporate support”
The New York Times
Sunday, September 13, 2013, N.Y./ Region, "Sculptures Big and Small, and All in the Open, 'The Farm Project 2013" at Saunders Farm in Garrison" by Susan Hodara
Sunday, June 1, 2008, Westchester and the Region, photograph, page 10
Sunday, July 14 and Sunday, July 21, 2002, Westchester, Arts & Entertainment
Sunday, June 3, 2001, Westchester, page 25
Sunday, December 7, 1997Westchester, “Peekskill Art Auction Where Clients Talk and Children Romp” by Chris Maynard, page 27
North County News
February 24, 2010, “Students Create New Mural at Panas High School, page 2
May 28, 2008, Lifestyles, photograph, page 2
Peekskill-Cortlandt Herald
June 2, 2000, Out and About, “Open Studios 2000 & Underground Railroad Tour”, page 13
March 31, 2000, The Arts, “Artists gather to share joys and successes”
Peekskill Herald
February 18, 1999, “New Artists, New Shows”
February 11, 1999, “Make time to view 50-artist show at Garber’s gallery” by Deborah Sherman
The Scarsdale Inquirer, Entertainment Calendar, page 18, Friday, July 12, 2002
“What is it like to be a 21st Century Woman in the Arts?” Slide Presentation, Mercy College Yorktown Campus, March, 2000
Philipstown.info
"Art on the Farm and Out in the Open" by Amy Lipton
The Star
Thursday, November 1, 2001, “Peekskill artist to premiere ‘Shopkeepers and Other Portraits’”, by Nina Myers, pages 1 and 6
The Yorktown Examiner
February 16-February 22, 2010, “Walter Panas Unveils Mosaic Mural ‘From the Orchard’”, page 9
Westchester County Weekly
May 25-31, 2000, “Who’s who at open studios”
Mid-Hudson Highland Post
page 8, November 11, 1998: “HCC Gallery to Hold Juried Exhibit”
Westchester Community College and The Katonah Museum of Art (lecture and slides)
2000, “Women Artists of Westchester”, A Presentation by Marcy B. Freedman
EDUCATION:
Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT - B.A., Cum Laude with Honors 1974
CONTINUING RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT:
"World Enough and Time" Slowness Workshop with Christian McEwan and Barbara Bash, Rosendale, NY, 2012; Concrete Workshop with Sherri Warner Hunter, Maverick Mosaics, Vienna, VA, 2010; Tile-Making Workshop with Jan Richardson, Safety Harbor, FL, 2008; Concrete Workshop with Paul Steinkamp, Altamont, NY, 2008; Mosaic Workshop with Isaiah Zagar, Austin, Texas, 2007; Garrison Arts Center , Garrison, NY - Mosaic Class, 2006; Art & Soul Studio, White Plains, NY - Mosaic workshop, 2004; Greenburg Public Library, Greenburg, NY – Rug hooking workshop, 2003; Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY - Digital Photography Workshop, 2003; Casola Gallery, Peekskill, NY- Life Drawing, 2002; Manhattan Graphics Center, New York, NY - Intaglio/ Etching, 2000; Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Cary Arboretum, New York Botanical Gardens, Millbrook, NY - Landscape Design and Botanical Drawing, 1987-90; Hendrick Hudson Free Library, Montrose, NY - Colored Pencil Workshop, 1993; Paramount Center for the Arts, Peekskill, NY - Life drawing, 1990-1; New York School of Interior Design, New York, NY - Certificate and additional courses in drafting interiors, 1978-9; School of Visual Arts, New York, NY - Illustration, 1977; Art Students League, New York, NY - Figure drawing , 1977; Brooklyn Museum School, Brooklyn, NY - Sculpture, 1976; Park McCullough House Association, Inc., North Bennington, VT - Photography, Quilt making, 1974-5; Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH - Painting, 1973
COLLECTIONS:
The artist is represented in private collections in Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Pennsylvania and London, UK. More information is available upon request.
◙ P.O. Box 2215, El Prado, NM 87529 (Mailing Address)
◙ 44 Melaringa Road, El Prado, NM 87529 (Studio)
◙ Mobile phone: (914)450-7833
◙ E-mail: [email protected]
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
TAOS FALL ARTS FESTIVAL, TAOS, NM 2017
CENTINEL BANK OF TAOS, TAOS, NM
"Where I'm Coming From: Portraits by Brook R. Maher", February, 2017
BEALE STREET BARBER SHOP, PEEKSKILL, NY
"One Barber, Five Heads", November 2013-January 2014
COLLABORATIVE CONCEPTS AT SAUNDERS FARM, GARRISON, NY
The Farm Project 2013, 2014
TAOS CENTER FOR THE ARTS, TAOS, NM
"Annual Taos Artists' Self-Portraits Show" (juried), 2012, 2017
HUDSON VALLEY HOSPITAL CENTER, CORTLANDT, NY
"Five Corners", 2012
BEANRUNNER CAFÉ, PEEKSKILL, NY
"Women: The Rock, the Root, the Foundation", 2014, Part of "Peekskill, The Power of Women Artists" 2014
“Working in Proximity”, 2010
BLUE DOOR GALLERY, YONKERS, NY
“Women about Women, A broad introspective retrospective”, 2010
“Windows to the Soul”, 2006
CHAPPAQUA LIBRARY GALLERY, CHAPPAQUA, NY
“Expressive Portraits”, 2001
CULPEPPER GALLERY, ABRONS ARTS CENTER, HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT, NEW YORK, NY
“The Flag Project”, 2002
FLATIRON GALLERY, PEEKSKILL, NY
Group Shows, 2002, 1999, 1998, 1997
HIGHLAND CULTURAL CENTER, HIGHLAND, NY
5th National Juried Art Exhibition, 1998
JOHNSON ARTS CENTER, MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE, MIDDLEBURY, VT
Alumni Art Exhibit, 1999
OSSINING ARTS COUNCIL, OSSINING, NY
Juried Show, 2002
MAXWELL FINE ARTS, PEEKSKILL, NY
Holiday Salon Show, Peekskill, NY, 2003 – 2004
PARAMOUNT CENTER FOR THE ARTS, PEEKSKILL, NY
Curator, Carla Rae Johnson, MS, BFA: "Brains, Boobs & Backbones - Women Artists/ Women's Issues", Part of "Peekskill, The Power of Women Artists" 2014
Curator, W. Garber, Flatiron Gallery, Peekskill, NY: “Interiors”, 2010; “The Majestic Hudson”, 2007-2008; “Musical Visions”, 2006- 2007; “Salon”, 1999-2000; “Pathways to Peace”, 2010-2011
Curator, Marcy B. Freedman: “Remembrance of Things Past: Memory into Art”, 1998
Annual Juried Shows, 1991, 1992, 1994
PEEKSKILL, COFFEE HOUSE, PEEKSKILL, NY
Group show with Berenice Pliskin and Howard Goodman –2004
WESTCHESTER ARTS WORKSHOP/ WESTCHESTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE GALLERY, PEEKSKILL, NY
“A Sense of Self”, 2005
Open Studios in Peekskill’s Artist District, 2000 and 2002
WESTCHESTER ARTS COUNCIL, WHITE PLAINS, NY
“Ordinary/Extraordinary”, Open Studios Invitational, 2000
Open Studios Event, 1999
WESTCHESTER COUNTY CENTER, WHITE PLAINS, NY
“Home Sweet Home: Visions of Home by Contemporary Westchester Artists”, 2001
YONKERS WATERFRONT DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION, YONKERS, NY
“Peace Actualized”, 2005
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
CROTON FREE LIBRARY, CROTON-ON-HUDSON, NY: "Acrylic Portraits: 1995-2014", 2014
FLATIRON GALLERY, PEEKSKILL, NY: “We All Are Here”, 1997
GILBERT GALLERY, MISS PORTER’S SCHOOL, FARMINGTON, CT: “Sleepers, Teens and Shopkeepers”, 2004
GREENBURGH PUBLIC LIBRARY, GREENBURGH, NY: “Singular and Plural”, 2002
HENDRICK HUDSON FREE LIBRARY, MONTROSE, NY: “Shopkeepers and Other Portraits”, 2001
HARWINTON PUBLIC LIBRARY, HARWINTON, CT: “Mostly Color”, 1995
AWARDS, GRANTS:
Image Artist, TAOS FALL ARTS FESTIVAL, 2017
Designer and Consulting Artist, “From the Orchard”, a mosaic mural, funded by the Lakeland Education Foundation, 2009-2010
Painted trash receptacles funded by Blue Door Artists’ Association, Yonkers, NY, 2007
Mosaic planters funded by South Broadway Business Improvement District, Yonkers, NY, 2006
Peekskill’s Riverfront Green Mosaic Mural funded by Ginsburg Development Corporation, Bank of New York and Hudson Valley Bank, 2004
Paramount Center for the Arts Special Tribute Award, 2000
State of New York Executive Chamber Certificate of Merit, 2000
U.S. House of Representatives Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition, 2000
New York State Assembly Citation, 2000
Certificate of Merit, Highland Cultural Center 5th National Juried Art Exhibition, Highland, NY, 1998
AFFILIATIONS:
Field Library, Peekskill, NY, Trustee, 2012 to present; Peekskill Arts Council –member, Board of Directors- 2006-8; Society of American Mosaic Artists 2010; Blue Door Artists Association; Garden Fairies mosaic project, Florida, volunteer, 2003; Town Wall Muralists -Volunteer, 1996; Paramount Center for the Arts (served on Visual Arts Committee -1990); Katonah Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, member.
PUBLICATIONS, MEDIA:
Artsnews
June 2004, “Peekskill Artists District, Peekskill Studio Tours: June 12-13”, page A5
Channel 12, Cable TV
2003, Featured artist, “Peekskill Arts with Victor Margiotta”
Gannett Newspapers
Sunday, May 24, 1998, Art Scene, “Peekskill’s Artist District Will Roll Out the Welcome Mat” by Georgette Gouveia
Highland Flyer
Volume 1, Issue 6; 1997, “Seen in Passing” by Carole Stewart
The Journal News
Sunday, November 15, 2009, YORKTOWN & CORTLANDT, “Students create mosaic mural”, page 5D
Friday, May 20, 2005, Communities, page 3B, “Inspired by the River”
Saturday, July 31, 2004, Local News, pages 1B, 4B, “A MOSAIC ON THE HUDSON: Artists raise funds for outdoor mural in Peekskill” by Marcela Rojas
Sunday, July 14, 2002, “Across Our Towns” and “Art, Libraries”
June 2, 2000, Living, “Seeking out the extraordinary in the everyday” by Georgette Gouveia, page 1E
Peekskill Government Channel, Cable TV
February15 -22, 2001, Meet the City (studio tour and interview)
MidHudsonNews.Com
Monday, October 11, 2004, “Peekskill mosaic artwork gains corporate support”
The New York Times
Sunday, September 13, 2013, N.Y./ Region, "Sculptures Big and Small, and All in the Open, 'The Farm Project 2013" at Saunders Farm in Garrison" by Susan Hodara
Sunday, June 1, 2008, Westchester and the Region, photograph, page 10
Sunday, July 14 and Sunday, July 21, 2002, Westchester, Arts & Entertainment
Sunday, June 3, 2001, Westchester, page 25
Sunday, December 7, 1997Westchester, “Peekskill Art Auction Where Clients Talk and Children Romp” by Chris Maynard, page 27
North County News
February 24, 2010, “Students Create New Mural at Panas High School, page 2
May 28, 2008, Lifestyles, photograph, page 2
Peekskill-Cortlandt Herald
June 2, 2000, Out and About, “Open Studios 2000 & Underground Railroad Tour”, page 13
March 31, 2000, The Arts, “Artists gather to share joys and successes”
Peekskill Herald
February 18, 1999, “New Artists, New Shows”
February 11, 1999, “Make time to view 50-artist show at Garber’s gallery” by Deborah Sherman
The Scarsdale Inquirer, Entertainment Calendar, page 18, Friday, July 12, 2002
“What is it like to be a 21st Century Woman in the Arts?” Slide Presentation, Mercy College Yorktown Campus, March, 2000
Philipstown.info
"Art on the Farm and Out in the Open" by Amy Lipton
The Star
Thursday, November 1, 2001, “Peekskill artist to premiere ‘Shopkeepers and Other Portraits’”, by Nina Myers, pages 1 and 6
The Yorktown Examiner
February 16-February 22, 2010, “Walter Panas Unveils Mosaic Mural ‘From the Orchard’”, page 9
Westchester County Weekly
May 25-31, 2000, “Who’s who at open studios”
Mid-Hudson Highland Post
page 8, November 11, 1998: “HCC Gallery to Hold Juried Exhibit”
Westchester Community College and The Katonah Museum of Art (lecture and slides)
2000, “Women Artists of Westchester”, A Presentation by Marcy B. Freedman
EDUCATION:
Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT - B.A., Cum Laude with Honors 1974
CONTINUING RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT:
"World Enough and Time" Slowness Workshop with Christian McEwan and Barbara Bash, Rosendale, NY, 2012; Concrete Workshop with Sherri Warner Hunter, Maverick Mosaics, Vienna, VA, 2010; Tile-Making Workshop with Jan Richardson, Safety Harbor, FL, 2008; Concrete Workshop with Paul Steinkamp, Altamont, NY, 2008; Mosaic Workshop with Isaiah Zagar, Austin, Texas, 2007; Garrison Arts Center , Garrison, NY - Mosaic Class, 2006; Art & Soul Studio, White Plains, NY - Mosaic workshop, 2004; Greenburg Public Library, Greenburg, NY – Rug hooking workshop, 2003; Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY - Digital Photography Workshop, 2003; Casola Gallery, Peekskill, NY- Life Drawing, 2002; Manhattan Graphics Center, New York, NY - Intaglio/ Etching, 2000; Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Cary Arboretum, New York Botanical Gardens, Millbrook, NY - Landscape Design and Botanical Drawing, 1987-90; Hendrick Hudson Free Library, Montrose, NY - Colored Pencil Workshop, 1993; Paramount Center for the Arts, Peekskill, NY - Life drawing, 1990-1; New York School of Interior Design, New York, NY - Certificate and additional courses in drafting interiors, 1978-9; School of Visual Arts, New York, NY - Illustration, 1977; Art Students League, New York, NY - Figure drawing , 1977; Brooklyn Museum School, Brooklyn, NY - Sculpture, 1976; Park McCullough House Association, Inc., North Bennington, VT - Photography, Quilt making, 1974-5; Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH - Painting, 1973
COLLECTIONS:
The artist is represented in private collections in Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Pennsylvania and London, UK. More information is available upon request.
