Julie Brooks is the artist behind Brookscape Studio. Primarily self-taught, she has also studied with leading artists in encaustic, ceramics, painting, cyanotype, cold wax oil painting, and metal clay at institutions including the Cape Cod Museum of Art, Truro Center for the Arts, and the Cultural Center of Cape Cod.

She holds an M.A. in Art History from Syracuse University (1989) and a B.A. in Art History from Boston University (1987), with concentrations in Italian Renaissance, American Regionalism, and 17th-century Dutch art. 

Her work has been exhibited in juried and non-juried shows across Cape Cod, including the Truro Center for the Arts, Falmouth Art Center, and the Cotuit Center for the Arts.

In 2025, she received the Carol Sandler Award of Excellence for her mosaic Beauty and Terror, 3 am, given to one piece in a show of more than 100 pieces at the Cotuit Center for the Arts.

Brooks’ work is held in private collections throughout the United States.  She is represented by Galley West Art Gallery in Orleans, MA, and is an active member of multiple Cape Cod arts organizations.

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Select Exhibitions & Awards

Awards

• 2025 Carol Sandler Award of Excellence, Cotuit Center for the Arts (Beauty and Terror, 3 am)

• 2nd Place, Mixed Media — Creative Arts Center, Chatham

• Honorable Mention — Cape Cod Art Center

2025 Juried Exhibitions

• Where Do We Go From Here?, Truro Center for the Arts, Castle Hill

• Summer Show, Falmouth Art Center

2025 Non-Juried Exhibitions (selected)

• Cultural Center of Cape Cod / Members Show

• Cotuit Center for the Arts / Yesterday

• Falmouth Art Center / Empowerment

• Provincetown Art Association and Museum / Member Show

• Brewster Ladies Library / 15th Annual Brewster Art Show
  
  

  Artist Statement - Julie Brooks

  I work in mosaic, encaustic, patinated and rusted metal, acrylic, and oil — materials that, like the natural world, are unpredictable, layered, and alive with decay and renewal.
  
  My work is rooted in science: geology, biology, astronomy— not to explain, but to observe, to celebrate, to excavate.

  I’m drawn to the overlooked and the microscopic: the fractured edge of a rusted object, the structure of a cell, the quiet choreography of atoms. These details — often buried, broken, or dismissed — carry the same grandeur for me as stars and planets.

  Rather than presenting the world as orderly or resolved, I lean into its chaos, its asymmetries, its persistence. Beauty, for me, is not in the perfect or the majestic but in the strange resilience of things that were never designed to last, yet somehow do.