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Brooks' jewelry is luxurious excess. The scale is often large, though always unquestionably wearable. Brooches, necklaces, rings, and bracelets feature multitudes of glittering stones, hordes of antique ivory roses or tarnished steel bows, and mounds of faceted steel balls. She mixes high and low,
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Contemporary. Brooks typically hosts a solo exhibition with Sienna Patti Contemporary every two years. Her solo-exhibitions also include: “plunder” 2002, “new works” 2004, “caricature” 2006, “confection” 2008, “sentimental foolery” 2009, and “charted territories” 2012.
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story of the eye: a subculture of ornamental oddities,
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