Brookie Maxwell

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

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

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. 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. 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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