Kelsey Brookes was born in 1978. A formally trained scientist who spent years tracking viruses for the U.S. goverment, he now lives and workls in San Diego as a painter. His art can be found broadly throughout the US and Europe.
Kelsey's figurative paintings draw nfluence from Hindu and Buddhist deities , exotic animals and sex, as well as rustic American quilts. Each figure is adorned with ghostly representations of the natural world.... anmals and plants that unfold from the body into the surrounding canvas. His chimeras are frozen with animalistic intensity in explosive and sometimes tourtures positions. Kelsey blames this raw, anxious form of art on the U.S. university system which refuses to teach its scientists how to draw.
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