Other Swans was launched in April 2025 by Los Angeles-based visual artist and poet John Brooks.
Born in central Kentucky in 1978, Brooks studied political science and English literature at the College of Charleston, South Carolina. His work has been exhibited widely in the United States and Europe, including at the North Carolina Museum of Art Winston-Salem and the North Carolina Museum of Art (Raleigh), and is held in the collections of Speed Art Museum, Grinnell College Museum of Art, The University of Kentucky Medical Center, OZ Arts, 21C, Beth Rudin DeWoody / The Bunker, and The Green Family Art Foundation. The New Yorker, Texte Zur Kunst, Weltkunst, The New York Review of Books, The Yale Review, and Action, Spectacle have published his paintings and drawings. Brooks’ poetry has been published by The Cortland Review, Asheville Poetry Review, Appalachian Review, Pilot Press, Good River Review, Assaracus, East by Northeast, and Plainsongs. He has written for BOMB, Strange Fire Collective, Ruckus Journal, and UnderMain. Over the last two decades, Brooks spent several years in London and Chicago, but was based primarily in Louisville, Kentucky until summer 2024 when he relocated to Los Angeles. From 2017-2022, Brooks operated Quappi Projects, a contemporary art gallery focusing on exhibiting work reflecting the zeitgeist, where he curated twenty-five exhibitions.
