Lauren Petrick Brooks
Born 1986, Irving, TX
Lives and works in Baltimore, MD
Painter | Educator | Community Arts Organizer
Education
MFA, Painting – Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI, 2015
BFA, Studio Art – The University of Texas at Austin, 2009
Exhibitions
2023 – What’s New in Still Life, Portrait, and Landscape, LaiSun Keane Gallery, Boston, MA (Curated by John Yau)
2023 – Miami University Young Painters Competition, Hiestand Galleries, Miami University, Oxford, OH (Juror: John Yau)
2022 – 13th Annual Drawing Discourse Exhibition, S. Tucker Cooke Gallery, UNC Asheville, NC (Juror: Catherine Murphy)
2019 – For the Love of Material, Terrault Gallery, Baltimore, MD
2018 – From then till downtown., 1301 Broadway, Detroit, MI
2017 – Pontiac Artists, Tessellate Gallery, Pontiac, MI
2016 – Drive-Thru Painting Salon, Forum Gallery, Bloomfield Hills, MI
2015 – Closer, (SCENE) Metrospace, East Lansing, MI
2015 – Graduate Degree Exhibition, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
2015 – Love After Dark: Sex, Love, and Attraction, Cranbrook Institute of Science, Bloomfield Hills, MI
2013 – Tomorrow Ain’t Promised to No One…, Forum Gallery, Bloomfield Hills, MI
2009 – Senior Art Exhibition, Creative Research Lab, Austin, TX
2009 – Lines, Flood Gallery, University of Texas at Austin
Awards & Honors
2023 – Third Place Award, Miami University Young Painters Competition for the William and Dorothy Yeck Award (Juror: John Yau)
Collections
Frank Edwards and Ann Williams, Royal Oak, MI
Elizabeth Singer Wolff and Stuart G. Wolff, Birmingham, MI
Jason and Rachel Zimmerman, Huntington Woods, MI
Bibliography
Shearer, Jessica. “New Expressions of Traditional Genres at LaiSun Keane.” Boston Art Review, December 18, 2023, <https://www.bostonartreview.com/read/laisun-keane-whats-new-in-still-life-jessica-shearer>.
Community Engagement & Arts Education
2016–2021 – Departmental Coordinator, Pre-College & Continuing Studies, College for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI
2015–2016 – Programming Assistant, Culture Lab Detroit, Detroit, MI
2013–2014 – Instructor + Educational Collaborator, Cranbrook Summer Art Institute, Bloomfield Hills, MI
2011–2013 – Studio Arts Teacher, Woodsboro High School, TX
2010–2013 – Studio Arts Teacher, Refugio Elementary School, TX
2009–2010 – Studio Arts Teacher, Claude Secondary School, TX
Commissions
2016 – Collaborative mural design with de Gournay, hand-painted wallpaper for private residence (53’ x 8’), Bloomfield Hills, MI
2014 – Two commissioned oil portraits (4” x 7” and 7” x 7”), Amanda Christides, Rochester, MI