Kaucyila Brooke

Kaucyila Brooke is a multimedia artist based in Los Angeles and Vienna. Her photographic work interrogates the relationship of culture to nature, particularly in the idiom of the Western landscape. Her documentary video and photographic project “The Boy Mechanic” (1996-ongoing) is a social history of lesbian bars in San Diego, examining some women’s attempts to find and keep a social space of their own. She is also a writer and editor of such books as Gendered Geographies (2002) and Beaded Curtains: The Veiled Influences of Verboten Entrances (2003). She is the former Director of the Program in Photography and Media at Cal Arts in Los Angeles where she has been a faculty member since 1992.