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| The Job Wright House - 1660 by Brook Meinhardt Acrylic on canvas: 12 x 10 inches. (Click image for blowup.) |
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I felt inspired by the building itself, and tried to bring it to life.
-- Brook Meinhardt
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Brook Meinhardt was born and raised in New York City, the daughter of architects. She attended Music and Art High School in Harlem, and graduated as an Art Major in the Class of 1984. She took classes at he Art Students League, The Children's Aid Society and the School Of Visual Arts. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Parsons School of Design, where she majored in Graphic Design.
Ms. Meinhardt has been a freelance illustrator since college. Her work has appeared in The Boston Globe, The New Yorker, The New York Times, The New York Times Sunday Magazine, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, TIME, and The Wall Street Journal, among others.
She works mostly in acrylics and portraiture, house portraits and landscapes are the subjects of much of her art. Nature and architecture are her primary inspirations. According to Brook, the reason she wanted to be involved in the Historical Society's exhibition is, "I am a huge believer in historic preservation and a fan of Oyster Bay." Both of these passions were evident in one of her recent projects: she was commissioned by the Oyster Bay Main Street Association to create a map of Oyster Bay, dotted with numerous portraits of the hamlet's historic buildings.
"I have painted a picture of one of the oldest buildings in Oyster Bay, known as the Job Wright House, torn down in 1948. I felt inspired by the building itself, and tried to bring it to life. I chose to portray it rather idealistically in a lush environment (a far cry from the way it looked in 1948, when it had been used for decades as a storage area for plumbing pipe and old tires)."
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