For more than two decades, Brooke Holve has been a visual artist in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her artist journey has taken her through explorations of calligraphy, bookbinding, printmaking, photography, and poetry. With an interest in combining mediums, she draws from each discipline in her art practice today. She makes mixed media works, installations, constructions, and artist books. Recently she has added digital technology to the mix. Her probing work investigates connections and interactions of culture, memory, landscape, architecture and natural phenomena.

Current work reflects an interest in the changing role of the book as digital delivery systems become the dominant mode of transmitting knowledge and information. She constructs primarily with book remnants; and occasionally like the wind, other materials such as organza silk and found objects enter the work. She translates these remains into constructions using the process of "cutting" as a way to reference the changing role of the traditional book structure.

Holve's work has been exhibited in the U.S. and Europe and is included in both private and public collections. It can be seen online at www.brookeholve.com

Born in Honolulu, Hawaii into a military (naval) family, Holve moved around every one to two years in her formative years. Never establishing roots until adulthood, she developed a "wanderlust" appetite that she satisfies through her travels today. Her travels often become opportunities for collecting new materials and ideas for her work with books remnants. Her work continues to shift like the book with each new experience.