In 2016 Brooke Walker-Knoblich moved to Portland, Oregon to pursue her career as a full-time professional artist. She supports her family by painting portrait commissions, teaching private art lessons, and selling her original oil paintings directly to collectors online. Brooke is an independent artist with no current gallery representation.

2022. "Featured Artist Exhibition of 18 paintings" Sparrow Gallery, Sacramento, CA.

2020. "Celebrating Women: 100th Anniversary of Women's Constitutional Right to Vote." Sparrow Gallery, Sacramento, CA.

2019. "From the Mountains to the Sea: Oregon Landscapes" Sisters in the Pearl, Portland, OR.

2018. Curated Exhibit of 2 Artists," Gallery at Cerulean, Portland, OR.

2018. "Portrait Connection's Inaugural Event," Layor Art, Bend, OR.

2018. "Au Naturel  12th Annual" International Juried Exhibition. Royal Nebeker Gallery, Astoria, OR.

2018. Honorable Mention "21st Juried Art Show," Schack Art Center, Everett, WA.

2017. "Texas National 2017" Juried Group Show, SFASU, Nacogdoches, TX

2017. "Artworks Northwest 2017" Juried Group Show, Umpqua Valley Arts Association,  Roseburg, OR.

2017. "Curious Gallery PDX" Juried Group Show, Crowne Plaza Hotel, Portland, OR

2016. "Willamette Valley Lavender Paint Out" Juried Group Show, Chehalem Cultural Center, Newberg, OR

2015. "6 Squared" Juried Group Show, Randy Higbee Gallery, Costa Mesa, CA

2015 "Where the Wild Things Are," Juried Group Show, Sacramento Fine Arts Center, Carmichael, CA

2014 "Annual Crocker Fine Art Auction," Crocker Museum, Sacramento, CA

2014 “Valona Paint Out,” Juried Group Show Epperson Gallery, Valona, CA

2014 Award of Merit. “Inner Views,” Juried Group Show Sacramento Fine Arts Center, Carmichael, CA

2014 “Expressions West,” National Juried Exhibition, Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay, OR

2014 “Retrospective: A Decade of Oils,” Solo Show Capital Art Works Studio & Gallery, Sacramento, CA

2013. “KVIE Art Auction,” Juried Group Show and Auction Benefit, Sacramento, CA

2013 “Magic of Music,” Sacramento Youth Symphony benefit, Scottish Rite Center, Sacramento, CA

2013 “Alla Prima,” Solo Show, Tim Collom Gallery, Sacramento, CA

2012 Award of Merit. California State Fair, Sacramento, CA

2012 “Painting the Present,” Solo Show, Union Hall Gallery, Sacramento, CA

2012 “Musicians of Midtown,” Solo Show, Twenty-One-Ten Gallery, Sacramento, CA

2011 “Portraits of Place,” Solo Show. International House, Davis, CA

2011 “Chasing the Light,” Solo Show. MAIYA Gallery, Sacramento, CA

2010 "Streets of Midtown," Solo Show. Beatnik Gallery, Sacramento, CA

2009 Award of Merit. California State Fair, Sacramento, CA

2008 “The Art of Music Juried Exhibition,” Mills Pond House Gallery, St. James, NY

2008 "Circling the Globe Through Women’s Lives,"  Mills Pond House Gallery, St. James, NY

2008 Award of Merit. "Faces X Juried Online International Art Exhibition," Upstream People Gallery, Omaha, NE

2007 Award of Honor. "Contemporary Women," Juried Exhibition, Chico Art Center, Chico, CA

2007 Residents Choice Award of Excellence ” VMRC’s 4th Annual Juried Art Exhibition,” Park Gables Gallery, Harrisonburg, VA

2007 Award of Merit. “Offspring National Juried Exhibition,” 21st Century Art, Broadway, VA

2007 Award of Excellence. “Englewood Arts National Juried Art Show,” Englewood Cultural Arts Center, Englewood, CO

2007 “The Language of Portraits", Debut Solo Show, Language World Cultural Center, Carmichael, CA

2006  Award of Excellence. “4th Annual Color  International Art Exhibition,” Upstream People Gallery, Omaha, NE

ABOUT BROOKE WALKER-KNOBLICH 

In 2001, Brooke Walker-Knoblich graduated Valedictorian from NUHS and received a scholarship to attend Revelle, the liberal arts college at UCSD. After earning her BA in Studio Art in 2005, Brooke developed her first body of work of photorealistic, larger than life portrait paintings and began exhibiting and winning awards in juried shows accross the USA. She continued her arts education in Sacramento under the mentorship of Earl Boley and classes with Suchitra Bohsle, Ruo Li, and Michael Siegle. Starting in 2008, Brooke created several bodies of work inspired by the Sacramento region. Her Responding to Rivers, Streets of Midtown, and Musicians of Midtown series all received local recognition, including center-fold review in the SN&R. 

CURRENTLY

While in Paris, Brooke studied live figure drawing and painting with Kathy Burke. Painting directly from life infused Brooke's art with more confidence and expression. She began exploring wild uses of color in the portraits she painted of herself and friends and haunted the halls of the Musee d'Orsay to look at the Impressionists.  10 years later, Brooke Walker-Knoblich dedicated her process to painting alla prima, a direct approach to painting from life that brought plein air landscapes and still life paintings into her repertoir.

ACADEMICS

In 2003, Brooke Walker-Knoblich studied abroad in Paris, France. It was the first time she painted with oils, Brooke learned to grind pigments and make gesso like the Old Masters, and then went inside the Louvre Museum to copy an original. This experience was like a lightning rod, profoundly influencing the course of her artistic life. In 2010, Brooke returned to Europe to learn more realism techniques. She studied oil painting with a live figure at the Florence Academy of Art with Stephen Bauman.

A LOVE FOR COLOR

Brooke is an American artist, born in 1982. She combines techniques from multiple periods of art history to infuse her oil paintings with luminous color and expressive brushwork. Brooke is inspired by classical realism and alla prima aesthetics.

STUDYING IN EUROPE

EXHIBITION HISTORY