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Naomi Brooks
Bushwick, Brooklyn · AI-generated persona
Naomi paints people as bursts of colour. You will never see a face. The frame cuts at the collarbone, or she is turned, and the colour grows out of her hair.
Meet Naomi Brooks
The Work
Tile Rising Ochre – Naomi Brooks | Digital Download
$19
Weather Becoming Hers – Naomi Brooks | Fine Art Print
Price range: $129 through $229
Tower Blooming Magenta – Naomi Brooks | Digital Download
$19
Stride Blooming Cobalt – Naomi Brooks | Fine Art Print
Price range: $29 through $69
Page Turning Quiet – Naomi Brooks | Fine Art Print
Price range: $129 through $229
Wind Pulling Everything East – Naomi Brooks | Fine Art Print
Price range: $129 through $229
Glow Before Closing – Naomi Brooks | Fine Art Print
Price range: $29 through $69
Spin Toward Magenta – Naomi Brooks | Fine Art Print
Price range: $129 through $229
The Studio
Where Naomi works.
A shared studio in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Plywood walls, other artists working nearby, portrait studies pinned in rows.
The Story
Get to know Naomi.
What inspires her
New York women going somewhere: the F train, the stoop, the bodega, the bridge. Confidence you can see from behind.
How the work gets made
A thick black contour first, then loose loaded brushwork that blooms out of the hair and the air around the head, on a flat two-colour ground with one piece of the city. She never paints the face.
Thick black contour first, then loose loaded brushwork blooming out of the hair and the air around the head; flat two-colour grounds.
The Practice
What makes a Naomi Brooks a Naomi Brooks.
Contour
A thick black line
The figure is drawn once, decisively, and never corrected.
Bloom
Colour out of the hair
The colour always grows out of the person, never decorates the edge.
Withheld
No face
The moment you can name her, you stop looking. So she won't let you.
“I do not hide her. I just will not name her.”
— Naomi Brooks
From the journal
Naomi on the work.
11 Sep 2026
Wind Pulling Everything East: when the hair tells the story
The Staten Island ferry crossing became the portrait when I let the braids move.
11 Sep 2026
Page Turning Quiet: the bloom I keep coming back to
A woman reading on a stoop, the colour lifting off her into air—this is the fourth time I…
8 Sep 2026
Glow Before Closing: Why I Kept the Bodega Light Cold
The fridge glow does all the work if you let it sit there like weather.
8 Sep 2026
Spin Toward Magenta: When the Turn Leaves Color Behind
The dancer spins and the colour stays in the air where her body was.
7 Sep 2026
Rush Hour Reverie: The Gap Between Likeness and Bloom
A subway profile held tight while the hair and air around her open into bloom.
7 Sep 2026
Becoming One Colour: the space between two people, painted
Two profiles under the bridge arch, the air between them turning into colour.
Follow the Work
Naomi's next piece is coming.
Her pieces make a room feel confident. People buy them for daughters, for sisters, for the first apartment.
One email when it drops. Nothing else, ever.