Draw Me Like One Of Your Picasso Girls… Meet Contemporary Artist Jessalyn Brooks

PHOTOS COURTESY JESSALYN BROOKS

As if you haven’t noticed, women are having a big moment lately. Their voices are louder and full of intention and the fashion is bolder and more original. LA-based artist and jazz singer, Jessalyn Brooks has taken note of this historical female empowerment movement. Her artwork appears to document the distorted contours, the delicate arches and the vibrancy of femininity as seen in her celebratory and colorful abstractions of womanhood.

While the beauty standards are constantly changing and evolving, artist Jessalyn Brooks captures the female form in modern light. Her geometric renderings of feminine shapes and movement are both bold and subtle. Brooks wields the Cubism style when painting women. The three dimensional images capture the movement and volume - building perspectives through layers and color. It’s the same technique that captured the heart of Picasso and Braque and that inspired Brooks to call attention to body parts that are oftentimes neglected. (Ahem. Eyes up here, sir) It's not the perky breasts or bubble shaped behind that is illuminated in her artwork but rather the curve of a neck, the arch of a foot or the shadowy suggestion of an upper thigh. Her paintings seem to reflect the times we live in while addressing an important message on standards of feminine beauty.