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PEGAN BROOKE: FLUX II, Light on Water

September 7 – December 8, 2024

Pegan Brooke, Artist
Jack Rasmussen, Curator

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Pegan Brook, S-348 and S-349, 2024. Oil on canvas, 84 x 50 inches. Opposing black and white gradients.

Pegan Brooke, S-348 and S-349, 2024. Oil on canvas, 84 x 50 inches.

Pegan Brooke, S-05 to S-114. Opposing gradients of tan, gray, and taupe.

Pegan Brooke, S-05 to S-114, 2013. Oil on linen, 30 x 24 inches.

Pegan Brook, S-318 to S-322. Light-to-dark gradients of gold, gray, and black.

Pegan Brooke, S-318 to S-322, 2021. Oil on canvas, 72 x 46 inches.

Overview & Events


September 7, 5:00-6:00 p.m.

Pegan Brooke’s paintings invite you to slow down, contemplate your feelings, and reflect upon what is important to you and your relationship to the world. Inspired by her studio environs on the Pacific Coast in Bolinas, California, and in her San Francisco studio near the bay, she follows a parallel practice of creating video/poems shot by the Aven River in France and on the Inland Seto Sea in Japan.

Her art is owned by the Guggenheim Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Des Moines Art Museum, and the Berkeley Art Museum (BAMPFA), among others. Brooke thinks of her paintings as closely related to nature and certain forms of architecture. Light falling on water is a visual metaphor for the “ever-changing flux in which we make our lives,”and a central theme of her work.