Brooke Ebeling is a contemporary painter currently residing in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. When she is not holed away in her studio painting, she's working to create programming and opportunities to empower young artists in the community. She’s developing a world with more full-time artists making and selling work they love to create, and doing so with joy and confidence.
Her current series, "Memories and Realities" focuses on how we interpret the events of our past, and how it contrasts with how we experience our current reality.
As children, we experience our lives with wonder and curiosity, shaping our memories into these vivid and fantastical moments in time. We remember only small portions of events, filling in the gaps with the excited musings of a creative child. We create these beautiful worlds to return to in our minds. The Memory paintings take the beauty and wonder of childhood and weave a tale that begs the question: Did things really happen the way we remember them? Or do our young minds create a new narrative full of over-saturated colors and impossible realities?
In contrast, the reality paintings focus on the present, and the quiet moments that make up our day-to-day lives, especially now in this “post”-covid world. We now seek solace in simplicity more than ever before, creating a home out of the remains of what our lives used to be. There are little moments of beauty and nuance in the seemingly mundane. People are messy yet precise, loud yet reserved, serious yet funny, sad yet hopeful - and these paintings work to reflect all of it. How will we look back on these moments in the future? Will the memories of these quiet events become as fantastical as our childhood memories often are?
Her current series, "Memories and Realities" focuses on how we interpret the events of our past, and how it contrasts with how we experience our current reality.
As children, we experience our lives with wonder and curiosity, shaping our memories into these vivid and fantastical moments in time. We remember only small portions of events, filling in the gaps with the excited musings of a creative child. We create these beautiful worlds to return to in our minds. The Memory paintings take the beauty and wonder of childhood and weave a tale that begs the question: Did things really happen the way we remember them? Or do our young minds create a new narrative full of over-saturated colors and impossible realities?
In contrast, the reality paintings focus on the present, and the quiet moments that make up our day-to-day lives, especially now in this “post”-covid world. We now seek solace in simplicity more than ever before, creating a home out of the remains of what our lives used to be. There are little moments of beauty and nuance in the seemingly mundane. People are messy yet precise, loud yet reserved, serious yet funny, sad yet hopeful - and these paintings work to reflect all of it. How will we look back on these moments in the future? Will the memories of these quiet events become as fantastical as our childhood memories often are?
