MTC ART GALLERY

Barbara Rose Brooker

Barbara Rose Brooker has an MA in English Literature and creative writing, and a BFA in painting. Her paintings are in many California collections. In 2005 and 2006 she had solo exhibits at the California Modern Gallery in San Francisco. Her work is in hundreds of collections in California and the United States. She attended the San Francisco Art Institute, and studied several years at the Civic Art Center in Walnut Creek. Every year Butterfield includes her work in the ART FOR AIDS Auctions.

Brooker has taught creative writing at San Francisco State University and San Francisco City College. Her novels have been published by William Morrow, and her poetry was featured, along with pieces by Maya Angelou and other Pulitzer award-winning poets, in the anthology She Rises Like the Sun, published by Crossing Press. Currently, her poems are published in an anthology with Mangrove Press. Her latest novel about the art world is in process of publication. God Doesn’t Make Trash, a memoir about a San Francisco journalist caught in the AIDS holocaust in the early Eighties, is optioned for a film. She has published with local and national magazines.

“Painting and writing are one story,” Brooker says. She is interested in capturing characterization, desire, and joy. “I want my surfaces to be beautiful, and the calligraphic lines to capture energy.”

www.barbara-rose.net

E-mail barbarrose@aol.com