Pauletta Brooks
Artist based in New York City
ABOUT
Based in New York City, Pauletta Brooks is an artist who works in a variety of mediums. Blessed with a bountiful imagination, this graduate of the Arts from both Hampshire College and The Fashion Institute of Technology has created a unique signature style that is unmistakable: sculptural, organic, and bold. She is best known for her ‘wearable art’ jewelry comprised of raw minerals and crystals, sculpting and embedding them into organic shapes and forms using a unique process of manipulating fiber mesh with resin and finishing it with lavish gold leaf and patinas.
Valued for her ingenuity and original designs, Pauletta’s jewelry has been featured in: Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, The New York Times, New York Magazine, Hand/Eye and Ornament Magazine, and The Encyclopedia of Jewelry Making Techniques. Her work has been shown at various galleries in the United States and around the world. (resume available on request)
ARTIST STATEMENT
Pauletta Brooks is a jewelry artist who creates signature pieces that are sculptural, organic, decorative and bold. The materials help to dictate the form, with large and raw minerals playing an integral role. "I want my work to be eye-catching and feel as if it was unearthed from a mysterious world of beauty and fantasy.”
Of this pandemic year, she writes: “I walked daily along the Hudson River collecting found objects and discarded materials and noticed the ‘islands’ people created for themselves along the river park where they self-isolated to rest or work. I wanted to memorialize this year in my artwork, a year when people were alone but still together, and I was thinking of visual ways to define isolation and connection”.
Each of these ISOLATION ISLAND cuffs is an assemblage, constructed of wood and combined with minerals and discarded objects to create an intimate ‘wearable’ landscape, upon which the figures are the surprise element that characterize the narrative of disparate objects coming together to create a story.
Website: www.paulettabrooks.com
Instagram: @pbwearableart