It is both accurate and misleading to tell you that Brooke Lanier paints pictures of boats. The Philadelphia artist’s vessels are never freighted with the romanticism of classic portraits of tall ships. Lanier treats old ships much in the way that an urban explorer treats old factories: as the site of surprise, juxtapositions, and personal and occasionally inscrutable encounters with maritime history. Close observation, her paintings imply, might be all the care and refurbish

Episode released April 2, 2025. Robert Marsch & Lucinda Degerlund interviewed Brooke Lanier about her advice for aspiring art collectors...

Artist's Talk Saturday, May 20th at 3 pm at 110 Morgan Street, Jersey City, NJ 07302 Excerpt from"The Downtown Art Crawl, Step by Step...

Brooke Lanier describes her artistic process, inspiration, and the evolution of her artwork. Pennswood Art Gallery, Newtown, PA September...

Brooke draws inspiration from Japanese and Chinese landscape paintings to inform the theoretical section of the exhibition.

Because there is nothing there, it both calls attention to itself and makes the things that are there more important.

Lanier turned her lifetime of visits to optometrist into art which won second place and $6,000 in a national competition via VSA arts.

We were lucky to talk to Brooke Lanier, an up-and-coming visual artist in Philadelphia, about what separates her from other painters...