Born in Chicago in 1953, her parents students at the University of Chicago, Brooke early decided to become an artist. She studied painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago then changed her focus and studied Physics. Her love of Physics continues to this day where she applies the effects of Fluid Dynamics in her painting.

In 1972 she went to Vienna, Austria, where she attended the Art Academy. In Vienna she came into contact with Viennese Actionism. She lived in Munich for several years and then moved to Portugal in 1996.

In 2008 she moved to New York where she worked with street artists under the name “Sprezanne”.

In 2009 she founded Radical Art Initiative, a collaboration between street artists and street theater to create visuals for social and environmental actions in New York City. She worked with 350.org an

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