David Brooks
David Brooks is an artist whose work considers the relationship between the individual and the built and natural environment. His work investigates how cultural concerns cannot be divorced from the natural world, while also questioning the terms under which nature is perceived and utilized. Often displacing infrastructural frameworks to draw comparisons with natural processes, his sculptural interventions are more enacted than constructed – better read as performative scenarios than disembodied compositions.
Artist CV
Featured Work
Preserved Forest, 2010-2011, nursery-grown trees, earth, concrete, dimensions variable, installation at MoMA PS1, NYC
Desert Rooftops, 2011-2012, asphalt shingled rooftops, wood, vinyl siding, metal interpretive signs, 100 x 70 x 18 feet (approximately), commissioned by Art Production Fund and the Times Square Alliance – installed in Times Square, NYC
Desert Rooftops, 2011-2012, asphalt shingled rooftops, wood, vinyl siding, metal interpretive signs, 100 x 70 x 18 feet (approximately), commissioned by Art Production Fund and the Times Square Alliance – installed in Times Square, NYC
A Proverbial Machine in the Garden, 2013-2014, a buried Dynahoe tractor, concrete, earth, landscape, steel grating, 66 x 28 x 12 feet, commissioned by Storm King Art Center, NY
Still Life with Stampeded and Guano, 2011, concrete animal forms that lived with wild birds, wild seabird guano, varnish, dimensions variable, commissioned by the Miami Art Museum (now Pérez Art Museum Miami)
Lonely Loricariidae, 2014, fish species unknown to science, glass fish tanks, pumps, filters, aluminum stadium seating, 15 x 10 x 6 feet, installation at Art Basel Statements sector; Basel, Switzerland