Brooks Anderson’s eloquent contemporary paintings are meditations on land, sea and sky. The powerful works — painted with oil on linen and wood — are spiritually-evocative explorations of truth, as his compositions also serve as metaphors of human nature. EDUCATION1982 Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, California State University, Northridge SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS2019 Cooper and Smith, Essex, CT2018 Addington Gallery, Chicago, IL2012 Red Door Gallery, Richmond, VA1990 Schmidt-Bingham Gallery, NYC1988 Schmidt-Bingham Gallery, NYC1988 New York Stock Exchange, NYC1986 Schmidt-Bingham Gallery, NYC1986 David Findlay, Jr., Fine Art, NYC1984 Bolen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS2020 Art Museum of Sonoma County, Santa Rosa, CA “LANDSCAPE” Awe to Activism”2018-present Addington Gallery, Chicago, IL2017-present Cooper and Smith Gallery, Essex, CT20111-13 Red Door Gallery, Richmond, VA2011 Chris Winfield Gallery, Carmel, CA2007 Arches Gallery, Healdsburg, CA2007 Wendt Gallery, Laguna, CA “Bay Area Influence”2005 Seavest Collection of Contemporary Realism, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY2003 Addington Gallery, Chicago, IL1999 Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK “Green Woods and Crystal Waters: The American Landscape Tradition”1998 I.Wolk Gallery, St. Helena, CA1996 Alice Bingham Gallery, Memphis, TN1995 Mulligan-Shanowski Gallery, San Francisco, CA1994 Eideljorg Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN “New Art of the West 4”1994 Susan Broden Gallery, Madison, WI1994 Gilcrease Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK “American Art in Miniature”1993 Sherry French Gallery, NYC1993 Frick Gallery, Belfast, ME1993 Gloria Runnings Gallery, Seattle, WA1993 Olga Dollar Gallery, San Francisco, CA1991 Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC1988 Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, PA1988 Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MI1986-1992 Schmidt-Bingham Gallery, NYC1986 Orlando Museum of Art, Lock Haven, FL “Contemporary Landscape Painting”1986 Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA1986 New York Academy of Art, NYC1986 City Art Gallery, Raleigh, NC1986 William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, CA1984-1986, 1998 David Findlay, Jr., Fine Art, NYC MUSEUM COLLECTIONThe Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OKSELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS AND ACQUISITIONSAmerican AgCredit Worldwide Headquarters, Santa Rosa, CAAT&T, NYCCitibank, NYCCitibank, San FranciscoDeloitte, Haskins, and Sells, NYCE.F. Hutton, NYCGeneral Electric, NYCArt Collection of Massachusetts Financial Services, Boston, MAMedtronic Corporation, Northridge, CAMedtronic Life Insurance, NYCPrincipia College, Elsah, ILSeavest Collection of Contemporary Realism, NYCSpring Lake Senior Facility, Santa Rosa, CASutter Health, Sutter Pacific Medical Foundation, San Francisco, CASutter Regional Hospital, Santa Rosa, CA NATIONAL TOUR EXHIBITION1999-2000 “Green Woods and Crystal Waters The American Landscape Tradition”The Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK; Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL;Davenport Museum of Art, Davenport, IA WORKS IN PRINT“Daring Methods, Daring Paintings: The Art of Brooks Anderson”American Artist Magazine, Christopher Willard, February, 2006“Green Woods and Crystal Waters The American Landscape Tradition”John Arthur, Philbrook Museum of Art Publishers“Canyon de Chelly: 100 Years of Painting and Photography” Donald Hagerty, Gibbs Smith Publishers, 1996“Spirit of Place: Contemporary Landscape and the American Tradition” John Arthur, Bulfinch Publishers, 1989“Brooks Anderson” (Feature Article) by Scott Douglas Allen, ARTS Magazine 1986“Taking Serenity Seriously – Brooks Anderson” The Christian Science Monitor, Theodore F. Wolff, April 25,1985