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Brooke Allison
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Brooke Allison is a pastel and oil painter. She has exhibited widely throughout the United States including thirteen competitions in New York City. She is a signature (professional) member of the Pastel Society of America, the Pastel Society of the West Coast - California, the Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, NYC, NY, and the Florida Artist's Group.
She is the recipient of the Bronze Medal for Pastel/Graphics at the Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Exhibition at the National Arts Club in NYC in 1993 and the American Artist Award for Painting in 1994. She also received the Award of Distinction from the Midwest Pastel Society in 1995 and the Grumbacher Medal and the Marbo Barnard Award from the Pastel Society of the West Coast in 1994 and 1999
In May 2000, she received the First Place Award for Pastel/Graphics at the Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Member's Show, Broome St. Gallery in Soho. She was awarded the Richwood Art Institute Award at the Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club Open International Exhibition, the National Art's Club in NYC, NY, Oct. 2001. She is the 1991 and 1999 recipient of the Pinellas Artist's Resource Grant. She received her education from Shimer College, the Art Institute of Chicago and the American Academy of Art and studied with Albert Handell PSA, Lynn Davidson and Burt Silverman NA.
An article by Madlyn Woolwich PSA, PSWC, KA on Brooke's pastel paintings appeared in the June 1998 issue of the Artists' Magazine. Her painting, "Old English", appeared in Carole Katchen's book, 200 Great Painting Ideas, North Light Books, February 1998. Her paintings have been shown at the Tampa Museum of Art and the Jacksonville Museum of Art. .
Brooke received Awards of Excellence from the Mainsail Art Festival 2001and the Temple Beth-El Invitational Exhibition 2002 and exhibited at the Butler Institute of American Art with the Pastel Society of America 2003.
She teaches pastel, portraiture and independent study at the Dunedin Fine Art Center in Dunedin, FL and gives workshops in pastel and oil painting. For information on classes and workshops at the Dunedin Fine Arts Center, call 727-298-3322. |
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