Angie Brooksby-Arcangioli is registered at the Maison des Artistes, Paris. She has been interviewed live for NBC, has been in documentaries and much more.
Her exclusive art agent is Singulart
For more than 30 years Brooksby has painted various themes in the Contemporary Realism style. These series are Italian Food Paintings, Tuscan landscapes, New York City, Amsterdam, Contemporary Paris, American Southwest, illustrated postcards of Parisian delights.
Her works begin with her own photographs. While walking in Paris she is know to stop anywhere and photograph a scene because the light was right. Her first love of art was photography. She learned back then that a scene exists in an instant. The light will change and the scene too.
Beyond realism she paints abstracts with oils or luxury brand house paints. The abstracts are digitally altered images of real life scenes. Sometimes they are overexposed or macro-ised, other times they are turned inside out. They can be inspired by her meditations. She also paints the Tree of Life. Initiated in a dream of a sacred fig tree she united her art and yoga practises. This series is full of symbolism. Brooksby has been practicing yoga since 1981 and she teaches Nada Yoga and plays gong
Brooksby was born in New York in January of 1965. She studied photography with Margaret Dowell— co- author of Addiction and Art– then obtained a BFA in sculpture at the Maryland Institute College of Art, where she studied under John Shahn, son of social realist painter Ben Shahn. In 1986 she studied sculpture in Florence, Italy at SACI via the Art Institute of Chicago. Then at the Accademia de Belle Arti di Firenze.
In 1988 she bought a one way ticket to Italy. For years she rode her vespa thoughout the countryside with her easel strapped to the back. When a vespa wasn’t large enough she got a van. Her favorite story about painting on site in the Tuscan countryside is when two blind people taking a stroll with their friend, who was recounting what there was to see, bought the painting off her easel. Ask her about it.
Telemaco Signorini, G. Fattori, and Llewlyn Lloyd, and the Coloristi Toscani were her muses. While in Florence she co-founded the Tuscany-Painting gallery and initiated the exhibition Cuori Infranti. On a whim, one day January 2007, she moved to Paris and has been there ever since.
