Brooke Stewart
I oscillate between thinking about portraiture as physical and psychological. Working in portraiture, I desire a moment to focus on the individual: who they are as a person, how they are vital to their environment, and their role in the inner workings of their community. By spending time with folks and documenting the communities I inhabit, I fall further into who I am as an artist and a person. Interacting with the sitters, and attempting to harness their powerful presence, the works resonate beyond the medium— they are documents, tributes, and commitments to creating connection, compassion and respect for my fellow person’s day-to-day life through understanding. These ongoing portraits are crucial to my practice, grounding me in what it means to be human.
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Brooke Henderson Stewart (b. 1994, Topsfield, MA) is an artist living and working in Boston, MA. She received her MFA from The School of The Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University (Boston, MA) in 2018. Stewart’s most recent solo exhibition, Bad Math, was hosted by The Mills Gallery (Boston, MA) last year. Stewart was also featured in the exhibition, Peace Love and Understanding at the Danang Museum of Fine Arts (Danang Vietnam) in 2023. Stewart has shown by The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA), Los Angeles Printmaking Society (Los Angeles, CA), LaMontagne Gallery (Boston, MA), Tokyo University of the Arts,Geidai (Tokyo, Japan), Edinburgh College of Art (Edinburgh, Scotland) and Artist Proof Press (Johannesburg, South Africa), among others. She was awarded the Mass Cultural Council Grant for her work in Printmaking in 2022. Her work has been written about in The Boston Globe, New American Paintings and Boston Art Review. Stewart currently serves as a Part-time Faculty at Tufts University and the College of the Holy Cross.
