Brooke Lanier Gallery Relocates to Queen Village

Brooke Lanier Gallery Relocates to Queen Village A painting studio, gallery, and serious art classes for adults

by Holly Russel

Brooke Lanier describes her art as a search for the sublime as well as an appreciation for the beauty of subtle details.

Photo courtesy of Brook Lanier Fine Art.

The intersection of Fourth and Queen streets is home base for artists working in disciplines like pizza baking, bagel making, and hairstyling, but its newest resident deals in a decidedly more traditional medium: paint. Brooke Lanier Fine Art at 815 S. 4 th Street is a multi-purpose space that serves as an art gallery, studio, and classroom for its namesake. Lanier, who first opened a gallery in Midtown Village on Camac Street in 2012, moved her operation to Queen Village early this year, in the hopes of making her work more visible and accessible to a wider audience. (The ground-floor location helps, too.)

The gallery showcases contemporary painting, printmaking, and photography from emerging and mid-career artists in group exhibitions curated by Lanier herself. According to Lanier, the shows typically highlight subtle, nuanced artwork, and often focus on contemporary approaches to landscape and patternbased abstraction.

In her personal studio, downstairs from the gallery, Lanier creates watercolor and oil paintings, photography, and collages. She has shown her work in Rome, Italy; Prague, Czech Republic; and across the United States, most notably in The Smithsonian Institute’s S. Dillon Ripley Center and the John F. Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Her paintings are in the corporate collections of Honeywell, Panorama Wine Bar, Volver, and Aramark, as well as many private collections.

For those with creative ambitions of their own, Lanier, who holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a Masters of Fine Arts degree in Painting from the Tyler School of Art, offers private drawing and painting lessons at the gallery. To help students develop a foundation of technical skills, the artist enforces small classes (there’s a five-student maximum) and emphasizes technique-based learning. Within that framework, Lanier tailors her instruction to serve each person’s individual interests and abilities, and includes elements of art history to bring the subject matter more fully to life.

Brooke Lanier Fine Art is open Tuesdays and Thursdays from noon to 6 p.m., Fridays from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. In addition to regularly posted business hours, the gallery is open by appointment and anytime the curtains are open—so feel free to stop by and welcome our new neighbor to Queen Village! ■