ABOUT

photo by Randy Stanley

“The lines and shapes of abstract art

influence my realistic approach.’’

Andrea Brookhart has been playing with images and words all her life. Drawing and painting, photography, writing poetry, and storyboarding and animating short videos are all parts of her body of work.

Andrea earned a BFA in Painting at the University of Kansas, where she studied with Roger Shimomura. Landscape and cityscapes were her primary subjects. Upon graduating, she was awarded the Lockwood Scholarship for excellence in painting.

After college, while still painting and taking pictures, Andrea supported herself by working in a canning factory, roofing houses, and creating package designs for an ice cream carton printer. For eighteen years, Andrea was a multimedia artist and animator at Hallmark, Inc. There, she created over 350 original and licensed, web-based, video animations. For this work, she also edited or created original sound and music, and encoded them all for video playback in different formats for the web.

Fine art influences include the American painter, Richard Diebenkorn, who traveled between figurative and abstract painting in his career. Of particular interest to Andrea is the way his compositions fit together, and the painterly qualities of his mark-making.

Andrea continues her work as a fine artist and has shown her work at various venues, including Edition One Gallery in Santa Fe, NM, 7 E. 7 Gallery of Lawrence, KS, and Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art in St. Joseph, MO. Her work is in private collections around the US.

Current Works 2017_Brookhart_0002_Cycle.

Exhibits and publishing of photography include:

Kansas City Society for Contemporary Photography, Members Show, Urban and Wild, KCMO, “Urban and Wild” - 2019
Kansas City Society for Contemporary Photography, Members Show, Juried, Kansas City Artist's Coalition, KCMO, “Current Work” - 2017
Edition One Gallery, Group Show, Juried, Santa Fe, NM “Disappearing World” - Summer 2017
Kansas City Society for Contemporary Photography, Members Show, 2016 Main, Kansas City, MO “4 x 4” - 2017
Kansas City Society for Contemporary Photography, Members Show, Albrecht-Kemper Art Museum, St. Joseph, MO “Sense of Place” - 2017
Photography for Folk Alliance International Conference, KC, MO - 2017
Kansas City Society for Contemporary Photography, Members Show, Kansas City Artists Coalition, Kansas City, MO “4 x 4” - 2016
Kansas City Society for Contemporary Photography, Members Show, Juried, Haw Contemporary Gallery, Kansas City, MO “Current Work” - 2016
Edition One Gallery, Group Show, Juried, Santa Fe, NM “Heart” - 2016
American Society for Media Photographers, “Road Show” Traveling - 2015
“I-70 Review”, Front and Back covers - 2015
Photography for Folk Alliance International Conference, KC, MO - 2015
Photography for Folk Alliance International Conference, KC, MO - 2014
“I-70 Review”, Front and Back covers - 2014
“Kansas City Voices” Publication, Juried, Whispering Prairie Press, Summer - 2014
Leedy-Voulkos Art Center, Group Show, Juried, Kansas City, MO “Voices”- 2014
Kansas City Business Journal, photography coverage, Folk Alliance International Conference - 2014
The Writer’s Place Gallery, Solo show, “Meditation on Place” Kansas City, MO - 2012
Leedy-Voulkos Art Center, Group Show, “It's Personal” Kansas City, MO - 2011
The Writer’s Place Gallery, Solo show, Kansas City, MO “50 Photos - On the Road, A Tribute to Jack Kerouac” - 2007

Exhibits and awards for painting include:

7 East 7 Gallery, Lawrence, KS, Solo Show, “Kansas Landscape and Cityscapes" - 1982
The Jewish Community Center, Kansas City, MO, Two person show - 1982
7 East 7 Gallery, Lawrence, KS, Group Show - 1981
“Women Artists ‘77, Kansas City Regional Show,’’ Miriam Schapiro, Juror, UMKC Pierson Hall Gallery, Award Winner - 1977
Recipient of Lockwood Scholarship for excellence in painting by graduating senior, University of Kansas - 1976

WHAT ANDREA SAYS

“Photography is like baseball. It’s hard to do well, it’s insanely fun, and sometimes you get a really good hit.”