Biography
East Tennessee artist, Brooke Day, uses diverse methods to create enchanted-replication installations and experimental sculptures that traverse the human experience's intricacies. Day’s work spans from the investigation of identity to the nonconsensual, blind-eyed realities of toxic social norms, to the ever-developing oppressions of capitalist America. As a queer, female-presenting person, Day seeks to shed light on alternative perspectives, advocating for personal autonomy and social evolution. Working interdisciplinarily, Day finds no modality or material to be especially out of range for conveying such various concepts.
Day earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from East Tennessee State University in 2017 and completed a Master of Fine Arts in 2021 from Clemson University. During both years, Day received honorable mentions from the International Sculpture Center’s Outstanding Student Achievement Award in Contemporary Sculpture. She has displayed work at galleries such as Lee Gallery, Slocomb Galleries, and the Reece Museum. Day recently curated the exhibition, America Unraveling, at the Tipton Street Gallery in Johnson City, TN.
Artist Statement
Working interdisciplinarily offers the freedom to explore concepts without the constraint of a single medium or modality. This art-making strategy provides the opportunity to learn continuously. Whether formally or diversely, striving to continue one's education allows one to develop varied perspectives and find themselves less hindered by the constructions that make up our reality. Creating work that questions normality leads to something not easily defined. Something that can not be labeled, sold, or owned is a thing to be experienced. It is an unfamiliar experience that can enrich lives, advocate for autonomy, and ultimately help build community with the end goal of equality, acceptance, and joy. The work I create is successful when it promotes a desire to understand others' perspectives and imagine a world in which we can create positive change. When we begin to feel the power of self-governance, we can challenge normality and take advantage of the privilege to build larger, more diverse, and more committed communities to stand up for their members' well-being.
My current body of work traverses theories of spatial identity in tandem with creative world-building as a method for reimagining reality. My creations strive to authorize self-management of the contemporary world's vast overwhelmedness to promote empowerment and space for creating positive change. This body incorporates life-like creature sculptures inspired by science fiction, deep-sea marine life, and creatures living among us whose biology we find to be atypical. These creatures will be partner to collaboratively constructed audio-scapes that encompass the frenzy-state of an overarching internal monologue, capturing the voices of many through the voice of one. Other various documents, including video, writings, and still-images, all come together in an enchanted-replication installation designed to encompass an ecosystem that sits directly between our world and theirs.
Piss Map, 2020BROOKE DAY
She / They / Her / Them /Hers / Theirs
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www.brookeday.art
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Curriculum Vitae
Education
2021 MFA, Clemson University, College of Arch, Arts, and Humanities, Clemson, SC
2017 BFA, East Tennessee State University, Department of Art & Design, Johnson City, TN
Solo Installations
2019 Touch, Smell, See, Listen, Watt Family Innovation Center, Clemson, SC
2019 Please Share Your Experience, Lee Hall Auditorium, Clemson, SC
2017 Welcome Home, Slocum Galleries, Johnson City, TN
2016 Hungry for Water, Earth Dreams Festival, Founders Park, Johnson City, TN
2016 Apex Species Camping, ETSU Campus Bike Trail, ETSU Woods, Johnson City, TN
2016 Hungry for Water, Campus Center Building, ETSU, Johnson City, TN
Group Exhibitions
2023 Transient Bodies, Revolve, Asheville, NC
2022 Growing Up Queer in the South, Juror: Parks McAllister, Greenville Art Museum, Greenville, NC
2022 Mini Worlds, Elderbrew Gallery in Collaboration with Neo-Appalachian Art Guild, Bristol, VA
2022 America Unraveling, Tipton Street Gallery, Johnson City, TN (Curator)
2021 Corporeal Consciousness, Lee Gallery, Clemson, SC (Two-woman MFA exhibition)
2018 Student Honor Show, Slocumb Galleries, Johnson City, TN
2018 SIDEbySIDE: Warhol and the Body, Tipton Street Gallery, Johnson City, TN
2017 Student Honor Show, Juror: Kelly Hider, Slocumb Galleries, Johnson City, TN
2016 Light and Life, Tipton Street Gallery, Johnson City, TN, (Two-woman exhibition)
2016 Student Honor Show, Juror: Carolyn Grosch, Slocumb Galleries, Johnson City, TN
2016 Perceptions, Valleybrook Project Space, Kingsport, TN
2015 Jezebal, The Willow Tree, Johnson City, TN
2015 Student Honor Show, Juror: Leila Cartier, Slocumb Galleries, Johnson City, TN
2015 Glazed and Confused, ETSU Painting Studio, Johnson City, TN
2015 Sex Week Exhibition, SUBmarine Gallery, Johnson City, TN
2015 It’s About Time, SUBmarine Gallery, Johnson City, TN
2015 Identity, SUBmarine Gallery, Johnson City, TN
2014 Paramnesia, Nelson’s Fine Art Gallery, Johnson City, TN
2014 Impression, Tipton Street Gallery, Johnson City, TN
2014 3-D Exhibition, SUBmarine Gallery, Johnson City, TN
2013 (Un)Finished: Collaborations with SAM MAYS, Tipton Street Gallery, Johnson City, TN
Awards, Grants, & Honors
2022-Current Adjunct Faculty, East Tennessee State University, Department of Art & Design, Johnson City, TN
2022 Curatorial Fellowship, ETSU Department of Art & Design, (Faculty Sponsor: Karlota Contreras-Koterbay
2022 The Department of Art Service Award, College of Architecture, Arts, and Humanities, Clemson University, Clemson, SC
2021 Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award, Honorable Mention, International Sculpture Center
2021 Kyle & Mica Worthy Visual Arts Annual Award for Project Funding!, Partnered with Arrowmont Match Scholarship, Arrowmont School of Arts & Crafts
2018 Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award, Honorable Mention, International Sculpture Center
2018 Artist in Residence, ETSU Department of Art and Design, Sculpture
2017 Student Honor Show, Faculty Choice Award, ETSU Department of Art & Design
2017 Student Honor Show, Extended Media Award, ETSU Department of Art & Design
2017 Reece Museum Scholarship, ETSU Department of Art & Design
2017 The Steele-Reece Scholarship, ETSU Department of Art & Design Partnered with Penland School of Crafts
2016 Lynn Elizabeth Whitehead Scholarship, Ceramics, ETSU Department of Art & Design
2016 Student Honor Show, Faculty Choice Award, Presented by ETSU Department of Art & Design, Slocumb Galleries, and the Honors College
2016 Student-Faculty Collaborative Grant, Undergraduate Research & Creative Activities, ETSU Honors College
2015 Student Honor Show, Core 3-D Award, Presented by ETSU Department of Art & Design, Slocumb Galleries, and the Honors College
Press
2022 Herndon, A. (2022, April 20). Zero space collective's "America unraveling". East Tennessean. Retrieved September 26, 2022, from
https://easttennessean.com/2022/04/20/zero-space-collectives-america-unraveling/
2018 “Sculptor: Brooke Day - Sculpture: Kitchen - Sculpture.org.” Sculpture.org, International Sculpture Center, Oct. 2018,
www.sculpture.org/portfolio/sculpture_info.php?sculpture_id=1019327.
2018 “International Sculpture Center.” Sculpture Magazine, vol. 37, no. 8, Oct. 2018.
2016 “Ornament”, Jessica Hall, editor, The Mockingbird, vol. 43, no. 1, 2016, p.49.
Organizations
2021 Student Sculpture Enthusiasts, Sculpture and Community Organization, Clemson University, Clemson, SC. (Founder & President) 2021.
2020 Zero Space Collective, Art Collective, Co-Founder, and Active Member. Spring 2020 - Current.
2020 Graduate Student Government, Senator representing the Department of Visual Arts, Clemson University, Clemson, SC. Fall 2020 - Fall 2021.
2020 Graduate Student Government, Activities Committee, Member. Clemson University, Clemson, SC. Fall 2020 - Fall 2021
*Full Curriculum Vitae upon request