Brooke Siem
Multi-hyphenate artist based in Reno, NV and Austin, TX.
One artist, many facets.
Brooke Siem is an multi-hyphenate artist whose work spans painting, writing, and the culinary arts. She is an advocate for the safe deprescribing of psychiatric drugs, and draws upon her experience in antidepressant withdrawal to communicate the full spectrum of human existence through her work.
Brooke Siem
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About Brooke
Brooke Siem began oil painting in secret after the publication of her award winning book on psychiatric drug withdrawal, MAY CAUSE SIDE EFFECTS.Put on a cocktail of antidepressants as a child in the wake of her father’s sudden death, Brooke spent most of her life medicated until, at 30, a psychiatrist pulled her off her drugs and sent her into horrific antidepressant withdrawal that had one beautiful side effect: her visual field quite literally, turned from gray to technicolor.Moved to capture the experience of transitioning into an unmedicated world, Brooke’s work is an elegy to darkness, light, and the process of awakening. Her work falls into two categories: small, monochromatic pieces on paper that exist as remnants of turmoil and unrest, and larger, bold expressions of color inspired by cubism, futurism, and the nature of consciousness itself.Brooke is self taught, with no formal training. She is based in Reno, Nevada and Austin, TX and is open for comissions.