Category: PHOTO / VIDEO / AUDIO

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)

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

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

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