Mitsuko Brooks
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Mitsuko Brooks STATEMENT My deconstructed book collages and mail art pieces are principally concerned with my long-time interests in the power of taste, the (un)certainty of ownership, and the exchange of capital. In my collages I incorporate fragments of photographs and printed ephemera onto a discarded library book cover which is thrown out during a rebinding process. These collages create a visual narrative for yet-to-be-written novels on the endurance of human spirit. BIO Mitsuko Brooks is a New York City-based bricolage artist and member of The Asian American Women Artists Association. She earned her B.F.A. at Cooper Union, and attended The Oxbow School in Napa Valley, California. She completed artist residencies at The Wassaic Project (2014), The Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden (2012), and The School of Making Thinking (2013). Brooks has received The Sally Van Der Lier Fellowship (2012) and the Artists’ Fellowship, Inc. (2010). She has exhibited internationally and nationally at The San Francisco Art Institute, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, SOMArts, The Center for Strategic Art & Architecture, Rush Arts Gallery, and Stephan Stoyanov Gallery. Brooks’ artist books, ‘zines and mail art collages are in permanent collections at Smithsonian’s Archive of American Art, Canada’s Artexte Information Centre and Barnard College’s Library. Her mail art and collages are represented by Recession Art. ARTIST CONTACT [click to email] IMAGES
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