Brookie Maxwell

Brookie Maxwell
Born(1956-10-15)October 15, 1956
New York, New York
DiedNovember 4, 2015(2015-11-04) (aged 59)
NationalityAmerican

Emily Brooke ("Brookie") Maxwell (October 15, 1956 – November 4, 2015) was an American artist and curator.[1]

Early life

Maxwell was born in Manhattan, New York to parents William Maxwell, a literary editor for The New Yorker Magazine, and Emily Noyes, a poet.[1] Maxwell received a degree in Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts in 1977.[2][3][4]

Career

In 1986 Maxwell founded the Creative Arts Workshops to serve children living in New York's homeless shelters and welfare-subsidized hotels.[1][5] The best-known project of the Workshops was "Calle de Suenos", or "Street of Dreams" in English, a 5000-square-foot mural on Lexington avenue near 124th street, New York.[6][7]

In 1999 Maxwell founded Gallery 138 in Soho, New York City to represent emerging artists.[8][9]

Her work is included in the art collections of the US Department of State[10] and the Brooklyn Museum.[11]

She died of ovarian cancer in 2015.[12]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Roberts, Sam (10 November 2015). "Brookie Maxwell, an Artist and Curator, Dies at 59". The New York Times.
  2. ^ "Glamour". 1989.
  3. ^ Roberts, Lucienne (November 2005). Drip-dry Shirts: The Evolution of the Graphic Designer. AVA. ISBN 9782940373086.
  4. ^ "SHORT TAKES : Cosby Drops Children's Mural from Show in Flap over Credit". Los Angeles Times. 17 October 1990.
  5. ^ "Jet". Johnson Publishing Company. 5 November 1990.
  6. ^ "New York". 1989.
  7. ^ Rimer, Sara (June 1989). "Dream Street: Paint It Pretty, and Safe". The New York Times.
  8. ^ "In memoriam, January 2016". January 2016.
  9. ^ Green, Penelope (10 December 2009). "Is It Art or Their Shoes?". The New York Times.
  10. ^ "Brookie Maxwell – U.S. Department of State".
  11. ^ "Brooklyn Museum".
  12. ^ "Brookie Maxwell "True Value: The Works of Brookie Maxwell (1956-2015)"".



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