Jasmine Brooks

I'm a multimedia artist with a background in design, working with screen printing, collage, illustration, sculpture, and installation as modalities to convey complex narratives often relating to the African-American experience and my personal history. Art-making is how I process and understand myself and my identity by transforming my understanding into visual representations. These representations often memorialize personal experiences, embody socio-economic issues affecting Black America, and convey political urgency or reflection. I am deeply interested in documentation and how photos can be manipulated or rearranged into colorful collaged depictions to embrace dualities, confront pain, and embrace contentment. My current project, The Bronx is Burning, explores my relationship with my father and his upbringing in the South Bronx & Harlem, NYC, in the 50s, 60s, and 70s, including themes addressing affordable housing, urban development, racism, and segregation in the US depicted through abstract sculptural work, archival photographic screen printed collages and assemblages.