Brent Cooke

Board member - West Fine Art Show

Visit Brent's Website: castartstudio.com

Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Brent has lived in the Pacific Northwest most of his life, mainly on Vancouver Island. Having discovered a love of carving at a young age, Brent created wood relief and figures, stone carvings; fine detail decoys, and then entered the bronze-casting field in recent years. His work focuses on birds and sea creatures for the most part, with birds of prey being his favorite subject. The sculptures Brent produces at his studio in Victoria, BC, are cast at Valley Bronze of Oregon. Brent's use of negative space and ability to capture the essence of movement and interaction of his subjects has been widely complimented by art lovers at galleries and shows. His work combines the use of abstract form in combination with total anatomically exact detail to achieve the movement seen in his sculptures

IN THE INTERNATIONAL SPOTLIGHT!

286 artists entered up to 3 pieces each (potential total of 858 pieces) for the 2024 National Sculpture Society show, it’s 91st Annual Awards Exhibition and Brent Cooks’ sculpture, “Wing Speed” was one of 37 accepted for the coveted exhibition spots.

The show opened on May 6, 2024 at Brookgreen Gardens in South Carolina for 2 months, then Indianopois, Indiana for 2 months runs there for 2 months then to New York, New York for a 2-month stay.

“The National Sculpture Society show has become one of our most popular exhibits,” says Robin Salmon, vice president of Art and Historical Collections and Curator of Sculpture at Brookgreen Gardens in Murrells Inlet, South Carolina.

Archer and Anna Hyatt Huntington founded Brookgreen Gardens in 1931 to collect, exhibit, and preserve three things: American figurative sculpture, plants of the Southeast, and animals of the Southeast. It became the first public sculpture garden in the United States and has continued to grow and evolve ever since.

Today, the sculpture collection includes more than 3,000 pieces, which includes more than 500 large, outdoor sculptures.

Art Gallery Representation:

Peninsula Gallery – Sidney, British Columbia, Canada

Joseph Galleries – Joseph, Oregeon, USA

Lovetts Gallery – Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA

Webster Gallries – Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Primavera Gallery - Ojai, California, USA

Kube Gallery – Langley, BC, Canada

Juried Art Shows:

“Sculpture in the Park”, Loveland Colorado, USA

“One of a Kind Art Show”, Chicago, Illinios, USA

“La Quinta Art Festival”, La Quinta, California, USA