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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
Hands Teaching Rhythm – Naomi Brooks | Fine Art Print
Price range: $29 through $69
Taxi Dissolving Cobalt – Naomi Brooks | Digital Download
$19
Bridge Through Steel – Naomi Brooks | Fine Art Print
Price range: $129 through $229
Planks Cooling Cerulean – Naomi Brooks | Digital Download
$19
Rail Blooming Terracotta – Naomi Brooks | Digital Download
$19
Skyline Igniting Her – Naomi Brooks | Fine Art Print
Price range: $29 through $69
Ferry Becoming Evening – Naomi Brooks | Digital Download
$19
Shared Bloom Opposing – 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.
23 Oct 2026
Bridge Through Steel: The Face Stays Mine
The Q train over the bridge, the river flat below, and a profile I will not let you…
16 Oct 2026
Skyline Igniting Her: the bloom catches fire
The hair lifts into the light, and the sky answers back.
9 Oct 2026
Shared Bloom Opposing: the sisters look away
Two profiles, one bloom between them - the likeness stays out, the connection stays in.
2 Oct 2026
Rest Between Stations: the bloom holds her up
A night nurse on the bus home, eyes closed, the colour doing the work gravity cannot.
25 Sep 2026
Bowl Blooming Forward: Steam Carries the Colour
A noodle counter, a turned head, and the moment steam becomes brushwork.
25 Sep 2026
Wheel Suspended Tangerine: the face stays flat, the air blooms
A profile held against the Coney Island wheel, the likeness withheld, the colour spilling everywhere but the face.
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.