I make playful and gestural abstract acrylic paintings on canvas. The works often have a central composition suggesting a portrait or portal with a large abstract shape encompassing most of the canvas. The shapes are loosely and spontaneously rendered at a bodily scale, with holes, curves, bumps, grooves, and slopes defining the edges. Brush strokes create patterns and blocks of color, revealing shapes within shapes within shapes. The overall space moves in and out of the frame, forward and backward, up and down, like film moving through the light of a projector.

As a college student, I became interested in plein air landscape painting, and that experience imprinted the Hudson Valley landscape in particular into her psyche. My interest in nature and landscape led to a deep wondering about the way in which landscape usurped religious iconography in painting as a method for describing ecstatic connection. Landscape and its social contexts leading to Impressionism, and finally to Modern abstraction as integrated through Hilma af Klint and her circle in the Western art canon. Landscape and natural forms draw us closer to union with the universe, and through this painting exploration I keep working to find that euphoric truth.

Brooke Moyse has exhibited at Storefront Gallery, Centotto, Loretta Howard Gallery, and Kathryn Markel Fine Art among others in New York City, at David Klein Gallery in Detroit, and at Sundaram Tagore Gallery in Singapore. She was awarded residencies at Catwalk, and at Millay Arts in 2024. Her work has been mentioned in Hyperallergic, The Brooklyn Rail, Two Coats of Paint, The New Criterion, and The New York Times. Brooke graduated with a BA from Bard College, and an MFA from NYU, and lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.