Numbers 23:23 (What hath God wrought!), 2018
Solar powered shipping container, smoke machine, programable timer, lock and chain
Solar Studios at Rice University, Houston Tx
Dimensions variable
Author: bradly
Act I: Waiting Room
Act I: Waiting Room (detail), 2017
Charcoal drawing, beta fish, candy bowl, succulent, sign-in book, bell and pen.
dimensions variable
Act III: Columns
Act III: Columns (1-3), 2015-2016
Artificial turf, black beauty abrasive, plaster, cement, wax, chocolate, bacon fat, Vaseline, clay, resin, foam, glass, ink, debris, found objects, speakers, and record player
Dimensions variable
Partially Buried Cereal Aisle
Partially Buried Cereal Aisle, 2013
Cereal boxes, gondola shelving, concrete and hardware
48″ X 60″ X 24″
Ready Ice
Ready Ice (multiples), 2016
Urethane resin casts of ice cubes
Dimensions variable
Wonderwall
Wonderwall (karaoke booth), 2014
Shower curtains, shower fixture and caddy, iPad, microphone, headphones, speaker
Wonderwall was a site-specific installation that consisted of a karaoke booth that mimicked a shower stall. Individuals were instructed to sing along to the music they heard threw headphones as the lyrics appeared on a monitor in front of them. The a-cappella vocals were audible throughout the gallery space during the exhibition. Each performance was recorded and layered into a single track, creating the illusion of a choir.
Several Ways to Start a Fire
Several Ways to Start a Fire, 2013
Twigs, rope, steel wool, battery, magnifying glass, aluminum can, chocolate, underwear, close pins, condom, water, and hardware
Damemoto
Damemoto, 2012
Reclaimed wood, weeds, lights, hardware
Transpacific
Transpacific (a line drawn from Texas to Japan), 2012
194 #2 pencils, paper, steel, pencil sharpeners
40″w x 72″h
Escape Plan
Escape Plan, 2012
Drafting compass, drywall, motor, hardware
Escape Plan from Bradly Brown on Vimeo.
Purification Station
Purification Station, 2013
Plastic, Trinity River water, pecan & rose artesian charcoal, white marble chips, beach sand from Exotic Locations™, pump, and glass beverage dispenser
50″w x 61″h x 35″d
Diamond Crash
Diamond Crash, 2013
Resin, string, balloons, helium
Impala Eardrums
Impala Eardrums, 2008
Salt water on car door
39.5″ x 37″
15,540 Miles
15,540 Miles, 2002
School desk, #2 Pencils, sawdust, chalkboard, cyanotype on carpet
Variable dimensions
Dopamine
Dopamine, 2020
Single-channel video
(4:20)
Low Hanging Fruit
Low Hanging Fruit, 2018
Cyanotype on canvas with product labels
variable sizes
Coupling, 2020
Animated GIF
Spider Webs
Spider Webs, 2017
Cyanotype on canvas
16.5″w x 20”h
Title Loan
Title Loan, 2017
Cyanotype on canvas
variable sizes
Failure to Launch
Failure to Launch (excerpt), 2016
Single-channel video
(01:41:18)
Failure to Launch (excerpt) from Bradly Brown on Vimeo.
Side A’s
Side A‘s, 2016
Silicone mold, and unique resin cast LP. Each color of silicone signifies a different vinyl record used to create the mold.
14” x 14”
Cuts
Cuts, 2015
Digital prints
10” x 13″ each
Analogue Buffering
Analogue Buffering, 2010
Paper
Looping animation
Matchbooks
Matchbooks, 2010
Digital prints from film scans
Varible Dimensions
Beastly Words
Road Agent, Dallas, TX • 09.07
Beastly Words explores the fundamental flaw of language as an expression of our deepest selves, and the contradictions of language as image. Pained, repetitive words and phrases are subdued and channeled into new forms, given life as watery zebras, muscular tigers, an anthropomorphized WWII fighter plane, and breathless track runners.
Brown first creates film negatives from mysterious scrawlings recovered from a university library trash can—the aching and robotic exercises of an unknown author. Brown’s subsequent use of older photographic techniques to recontextualize the images, through Cyanotype and Van Dyke processes, naturally limits his palette to a calming range of organic browns and blues, fading or deepening depending on exposure to light. He imposes a more natural and visceral world on the underlying fumbling language, as well as foiling the hyper-Photoshopped slickness of our mass-media world.
Barnyard
Road Agent, Dallas, TX • 04.06
“Boys will be boys”— or so the saying goes. In Bradly Brown’s first exhibit at Road Agent, he offers theatrical photographs that toy with questions of how young men construct their identities as they gradually mature into adulthood. In several of Brown’s photographs the artist and his friends playact with plastic animal masks hiding their faces. An Arcadian narrative unfolds, juxtsposing homoerotic yearnings with a suggestive menance. The most striking photo of the show, however, extends beyond a beautifully rendered, but simply conceived drama. Dominated by rich orange hues, a fractured and deteriorating wall opens into a small room that houses a solitary schoolboy, hands tied to a chair. This luxuriously colored photograph and the threatening mystery it encapsulates is as viscerally enticing as it is emotionally unsettling.
—Flash Art Magazine, Matthew Bourbon
Three Trees
Three Trees, 2012
Unique digital prints
13″ x 17″
Six Knots
Six Knots, 2016
Unique digital prints
24″ x 18″ each
Drawing Stairs
Drawing Stairs (1-9), ongoing
Graphite / ink on paper
Donkey Punch
Donkey Punch
2008
Mixed media on chalk board
48″ x 72″
Fairytale of New York
Fairytale of New York
2008
paint, thread, marker, ink
48″ x 36″
Love’s Last Shift
Love’s Last Shift
mixed media on canvas
38″ x 36″
2005
Take Less Than You Need
Take Less Than You Need, 2002
Mixed media on canvas
43″ x 56″
HOMECOMING! COMMITTEE
HOMECOMING! Committee is: Christopher Bond, Bradly Brown, Ryan Goolsby, Courtney Hamilton, Timothy Harding, Shelby Meier, Devon Nowlin, Kris Pierce, Gregory Ruppe, Alden Williams, Briana Williams, and Tiffany Wolf.
HOMECOMING! Committee seeks to establish initiatives and venues in which all manner of creative individuals can operate as co-collaborators engaging in the practice of this agency. Interactive and participatory, HOMECOMING events create an environment to springboard artists into action and build networks for future collaborations. This fortification of creative resources will reposition the artist as an individual that shapes cultural discourse, rather than a member of society that merely reacts to it.
For More Information about HOMECOMING! Committee, please visit homecomingcommittee.com
SELECTED HOMECOMING! EVENTS:
Launch Party, 2011
Hands on an Art Body, 2012
Post Communiqué , 2013
Friskt kopplat, hälften brunnet. (Quickly connected, half burned.), 2013
The Eagle has Landed, 2013
MacGuffin, 2013-2014
semigloss. MAGAZINE
(Please visit www.semiglossmag.com for more information)
semigloss. Magazine was a Texas-based arts publication founded by Sally Glass and Bradly Brown in 2012. The magazine highlighted international artists and writers and produced content that ranged from editorial and theoretical essays to interactive installations and vinyl records. Each issue focused on a certain concept or theme within the context of contemporary art thought and practice. Published for nearly 3 years, semigloss was intended to operate as a physical archive of the artistic idea but quickly expanded beyond the publication.
In 2016, the last issue, “Sound”, was released as a vinyl record with a corresponding immersive installation at the Contemporary Arts Museum of Houston, the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, and B4BL4B in Oakland, as well as a listening event at the James Turrell Twilight Epiphany Skyspace at Rice University.
Volume 1, Issues 1-4
semigloss. Magazine Flip-Through: Issues 1-3 from sallyglass on Vimeo.
Volume 2, Issues 1-2
Semigloss: Sparkling Prose
By Jimmy Fowler Fort Worth Weekly January 22, 2014
Fort Worth new media artist Bradly Brown has had the kind of “urban artsy” college-and-career trajectory that the twenty-something characters on an HBO show often enjoy. The El Paso native studied photography as an undergrad at UNT and then lived in New York City for 10 years as a self-taught graphic designer/art director for the indie music label Table of the Elements. He returned to Fort Worth in 2011 to pursue a master’s in sculpture at TCU and co-founded the North Texas art collective HOMECOMING! Committee. In the middle of all that happy creative chaos, he andSally Glass, artist in residence at the University of Texas at Dallas, co-founded Semigloss, a quarterly publication of visual art and contemporary thought by local and national artists and writers. Glass (the editor-in-chief) and Brown (the art director) just released their fourth issue last month, with a glossy silver holographic paper cover laser-cut by artist Kris Pierce(also a member of HOMECOMING!).
Explaining the inspiration for Semigloss, Brown said that Glass “had spoken on a local panel about the state of the arts scene in Dallas. Someone made the comment that there aren’t any local publications [dedicated to the visual arts scene]. So [Glass] and I talked about it, and we thought, ‘Well, if something is missing, we need to put it out there.’ ”
Brown and Glass released four 9-by-12-inch issues of Semigloss last year, each with a different overarching theme. December’s issue was devoted to the future and included visual contributions from North Texas artists like Christopher Blay and Devon Nowlin as well folks from New York City, Berlin, and Mexico City. Articles in the magazine include an overview of a New York City interdisciplinary conference on the future of government surveillance, the criminal justice system, and the labor economy; a profile of two “queer” New York filmmakers who’ve created a feature-length lesbian porn film; and an interview with longtime Dallas artists Tom Orr and Frances Bagley. In between the stories are lots of minimalist, collage-like graphic artwork from Blay, Nowlin, and artists like Detroit native Jeff Gibbons and Mexico City’s Debora Delmar Corp. The mag, in short, is a grab-bag of different styles, approaches, and opinions organized under one broad umbrella theme and presented in a sleek, high-quality paper format. Brown describes Semigloss the publication as “a portable gallery space” and each issue a different exhibition of contemporary artists and writers. Brown and Glass’ ambitions for both the publication itself and the artists it serves have changed significantly since the first issue came out.
“The first and second issues were exclusively about North Texas artists,” Brown said. “That was the reason we started the magazine in the first place –– we wanted it to represent this particular scene. Then we started talking to artists and learning about things that were going on around the country. That’s when we decided that if we want North Texas artists to be on the same level as New York or Los Angeles artists, we needed to make the playing field level. We needed to group them together. So Semigloss has become a publication about international artists that’s coming out of North Texas and includes North Texas artists.”
Semigloss has met with a surprisingly warm reception among the big and small galleries and museum spaces in Dallas that have agreed to sell it, including the Nasher Sculpture Center, the Goss Michael Foundation, Conduit Gallery, and soon the Dallas Museum of Art. Despite the heavy presence of Fort Worth artists between and behind the pages, the magazine isn’t available anywhere in Fort Worth, a glaring omission that Brown said will be fixed this year.
Each issue has grown larger in page count and number of contributors while still managing to pay for itself through ad sales and donated talent. This year Glass and Brown will establish an online version, shrink the magazine’s physical dimensions, and experiment with publishing in various media, including (possibly) an all-audio issue made of downloadable MP3s and vinyl records. Brown credits his working chemistry with Glass for the relative ease with which Semigloss is planned and produced.
Glass, he said, “puts out the calls to the contributors and does all the communicating” with the artists and writers, he said. “My job is to take the content and figure out the most appropriate way to display pieces in the magazine. We talk about what we like and what we don’t like, but ultimately I have complete trust in her. I don’t mind when someone like [Glass] makes the important decisions because I have my toes in a lot of different projects now. I don’t want to be responsible for everything.”
San Jacinto College South Campus Gallery
The San Jacinto College South Campus Gallery is committed to promoting creativity, critical discourse, and collaboration through the arrangement of multidisciplinary exhibitions and educational programs. The gallery exists to serve the students, employees, and community partners of San Jacinto College with a focus on inclusive initiatives and experiences.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
Carrot Cake, 2018
The Life and Carrer of Chuck Jones
League City Legacy, 2018
Butler Longhorn Museum
Golf Coast, 2019
Featured artists include Gao Hang, Iva Kinnaird, and Gregory Ruppe
The Ways They Are, 2020
Carris Adams, Sebastien Boncy, and Matt Manalo
The Body Follows, 2019
Ann Wood, Daniela Antelo & Julia Barbosa Landois
Workshop from STEM From Dance and Redbud performance by Christina Maley
Brain Tree , 2019
John Bavaro
THE INTERVIEW
Interview Etiquette Before the Interview
1. Your hair should be trim, clean and combed.
2. Nails should be clean and trimmed.
3. Be conservative and err on the side of caution. If the company does not have a dress code, remember that its better to overdress than underdress.
4. Arrive at least 10 minutes before your interview. The extra minutes will also give time to fill out any forms or applications that might be required.
5. Turn off your cell phone or pager.
6. Don’t assume that whoever greets you is the receptionist.
Interview Etiquette During the Interview
1. Make a positive and professional first impression by being assertive and giving a firm handshake to each interviewer and addressing each interviewer by name.
2. Reinforce your professionalism and your ability to communicate effectively by speaking clearly and avoiding “uhs”, “you knows”, and slang.
3. Use appropriate wording. You won’t receive extra points for each word that has more than 10 letters. Use technical terms only when appropriate to the question.
Interview Etiquette After the Interview
1. Shake each interviewer’s hand and thank each interviewer by name.
2. Send a thank you note as soon after the interview as soon as possible.
ON LEAPING FROM AIRPLANES
On Leapig from Airplanes, 2006
Splashlight Studio, New York, NY • 01.06