Brad Birchett, 55505 (in progress), 2013
Brad Birchett, Family Camp, 2013
Brad Birchett, Slinky Project, 2012
Brad Birchett, Kittiama, 2012
Brad Birhcett, Once Was, 2012
Saturday, January 5, 2013
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
old.and.new
I found these in the back of the stack of paintings ... from 2000-2003.
What do we do with bits of the recent past?
Brad Birchett, Che, about 4'x3', mixed media on canvas, 2003
Brad Birchett, Magdelennia, about 5'x4', mixed media on canvas, 2000
What do we do with bits of the recent past?
Saturday, January 7, 2012
Once Was: Lama Mountain, Taos, NM
Once Was is a land art project, a sequence of events that is in continuum. It begins with movements within a place, a place of art action and invitation, and the visual goal is the placement of a simple environmental installation made with a white "farmer's wife" dress from the mid 20th century. The series began (Site-Seer: Transformation) in 2004 with the placement of these installations at various places along the east coast derived from storytelling by my mom and her sister ...
Thanks to the generosity of the directors of Herekeke (an incredible artists' retreat on Lama Mountain NM), Liliana and Peggy, for inviting me and allowing me to transform while investigating the beauty and magic of Lama Mountain. Lama Mountain is in the Sangre de Cristo mountain range, at the southern base of the Rockies.
Sacred Mountain, Taos Pueblo
Pueblo Horses
Lama Mountain is just north of the Taos Pueblo, outside of Taos NM.
The work begins with the best and hardest part ... finding the site for the installation.
This is where the searching, hiking, scrambling, and at times danger begins ...
It is good to have good friends ...
Relic and ritual are part of the process, content and context ...
The sites are usually on borders - in the Taos mountains land and water rites are one in the same, fiercely guarded and shared.
This place centered around an old cistern, no longer in use, but the relics of the community defined its purpose and importance ...
This was where the site was meant to be ... and so the dress was installed ...
Brad Birchett, Once Was: Lama Mountain New Mexico, 2011
[period objects installed within specific places - ongoing]
Monday, March 21, 2011
Once Was Video
One month after the installation, snow is gone, but in Tulsa the wind is ever-present ....
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Earth and Time
Earth and Time -- intermedia exhibition by Brad Birchett, Myers Gallery, Living Arts of Tulsa, Tulsa OK -- February 2011
Opening Reception Feburary 11, 5-9pm -- Brady Street Art District
Brad Birchett, Once Was: Stove Pipe Hill, Tulsa OK, 2011
[Land art project for Earth and Time exhibition]
"It is significant that the existence of the work of art with reference to its aura is never entirely separated from its ritual function."
Walter Benjamin
The process and the work become the same ... in the end we are left with the physical heap, or the outcome of the art making process.
-- Thanks to Steve Liggett at Living Arts for a wonderful experience in art and SURVIVAL (Largest Blizzard/Snowfall in History of Tulsa!) -- We hiked through drifts and mounds of snow to make art happen & the whole experience was incredible! -- for MORE INFO click here: http://www.livingarts.org/myers.htm
See also the article in Urban Tulsa Weekly ...
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Alley Sites
Brad T. Birchett, Alley Sites, 24, 7" x 5" docu-photographs of an art-walk mapping alleyways, 2007
Alleyways are the matrix-paths for the urban setting. Here, as voyeuristic wanderers, we see how our community truly lives and plays, and what they throw away ...
Monday, February 8, 2010
New Works
Interval 01, intermedia - mixed media, 2010-
(click on image for enlargement)
Here I use a rhythm of layerings - photo images from previous projects,
mixed media on wallboard, paint, paper, oil, tape, vinyl lettering, etc ... the pieces are removed from the wall and mounted on panels ...
(This installation is presently in the Studio Montclair Departures exhibition)
Interval 03, intermedia - mixed media, 2010
Interval 02 - (01 detail) ....
Interval 02 - (01 detail) ....
Interval 04 - (03 detail) ...
Inteval 05, intemedia - mixed media, 2010
This is a collection of stones from various rivers and waters in Rappahannock County, Virginia. The stones are eventually returned to their original sources ... and the collection is done again, repeating the physical and ritual movement. The piece was recentlyin an exhibition titled The Object at Univeristy of Mary Washington, Ridderhof Gallery, curator: Laura Tenakjian ... (click on the selection below to hear the accompanying sound art piece from the installation)
The Everyday Act of Existence, docu-photography of 1 year event/intervention
Alley Sites, docu-photography of an art-walk mapping alleyways
Formation, found objects and bailing wire from - Italy, 1945 - a series of environmental installations, interventions, and documentation.
Urban Renewal I, formal-narrative paintings in multiples, one of a two part grid-series
Urban Renewal, detail
Urban Renewal, detail
Urban Renewal, detail
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