ARTIST'S BIO

Brooke Benham is a practicing artist with a passion for design, research, and education. She graduated in Spring 2021 from Old Dominion University, receiving a BFA, with a concentration in Drawing and Design, along with a BA in Art Education. Her skills in research, writing, and presentation have earned her invitations to competitive research symposiums. Planning, organizing, and directing activities are strengths of hers that she has practiced both collaboratively and conceptually through leadership positions.  The artist is detail oriented, thinks strategically, and displays aesthetic sensibility to come up with innovative design solutions.   

While her early artwork is mostly representational, the artist’s current work consists of abstracted forms.  The artist examines organic forms found in nature to create voluminous intersecting figures of light and dark in her work. 

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Artist Statement

The human habitat is nature and it is in the vastness of untouched Earth that we find clarity.  The advancements of modern life do not fulfill us because our souls were simply not made for such things.  
My work examines the properties of nature through the creation of light and dark/ texture and depth.  I use organic, intersecting forms to portray the spiritual world we live in but often neglect to recognize.  Alternative forms help viewers to question their attitudes towards their relationship between the natural world and their soul.