Brooke Pickett b. 1980, Shreveport, LA; lives in New Orleans, LA

Brooke Pickett is an artist whose paintings explore the relationship women have to the home—to the domestic environment, to the promise of safety, and the home as a failed utopia. Underneath the carefully placed colors and recognizable household items is the relentless pursuit to playfully/urgently rearrange our lives, our memories, our homes in spite of or precisely because our world is crumbling— the infrastructure of our democracy, nation, cities, homes.

Pickett earned a BA in both Painting and Literature from Louisiana State University in 2002, and an MFA in Painting from the State University of New York at Albany in 2005. She has exhibited at institutions such as the Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA; BravinLee, New York, NY; MASS Gallery, Austin, TX; Feral, Mexico City, Mexico; and BOX13 ArtSpace, Houston, TX; among others. Pickett was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Painting at Middlebury College, VT, a member of artist-run gallery The Front, and her work is included in numerous private and public collections, including the New Orleans Museum of Art.