Los-Angeles painter and jazz-singer Jessalyn Brooks paints the contours of the female form with blocky, colorful abstraction. Her paintings are informed by the romance of industry: machinery, shape, volume, and movement. Brooks paints strong, angular and mostly full-bodied women, preferring to paint the distinctive but almost subliminal contours of the female form that we sometimes neglect, like the arch of the foot and palm of the hand. Inspired by the geometric lines of Cubism, Brooks’ paintings bring forth an important question of beauty ideals, body shape and gender.