2010 Painting

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Brad T. Birchett, Tableu Circle, mixed media on canvas, 48x45", 2010

Brad T. Birchett, Dolmen Libra, mixed media on canvas, 48x41", 2010

Brad T. Birchett, Urban Renewal, mixed media on mounted rag papers, 31x35", 2010 -- multiple

For more artwork see my full blog site at: http://www.bradbirchettart.blogspot.com/

Gehäuse Untergeschoss (part II)

Gehäuse Untergeschoss

March 7 - March 29

2009

What an incredible experience I had in Dusseldorf. The privaledge was to exhibit with these 4 incredible Künstlers (artists) ... Thanks to Kai, Pirko, Thomas, and Evangelos ...

The opening for the show was great - many collectors and art reps were there, along with family, friends, and many, many, incredible artists like my new freund Lutz Fritsch. See a walk-through of the exhibit below ...

Gehäuse Untergeschoss

Brad Birchett, Site Seer, Entropy, and Existence, 2009

Thomas May, Installation and Docu-Photography, 2009

Evangelos Papadopoulos, Funnel For Your Souls, 2009

Pirko Schroder, Industrial Vent: Light Box, 2009

Kai Richter, Material-Site Installation, 2009

See below for more info on the show, the artists, and the exhibition.

Gehäuse Untergeschoss

Gehäuse Untergeschoss

March 7 - March 29

Philara Sammlung Gallery

New Works by:

Brad Birchett

Thomas May

Evangelos Papadopoulos

Kai Richter

Pirko Schroder

Opening: Saturday, March 7th, 7:00 pm

Exhibition: March 7 - March 29

Hours: Saturday-Sunday 3:00 - 6:00 pm

Telephone for special viewing: 01771469436, 017661151253

Walzwerk Street 14

40599 Düsseldorf

This exhibition will continue to Nuremburg in Fall 2009 ... See you there ...

Urban Renewal II

Urban Renewal - 01/09 - Now the piece or project has grown to about 53 parts - 5x7" paintings inspired by formal elements of nature but also by the ritualistic and rythmic act of walking the grid of alleyways of my neighborhood ... and of course, with my rescue shepherd Luka. See the first Urban Renewal entry below for more info and images of the first pieces. Above is a grid of 24. The piece continues to grow over time ... created from a piece of history - damaged paintings on paper from the Shockoe Bottom Studio Fire of 1997 (wow, 12 years ago!). These pieces were cut from the saved yet un-restorable paintings on paper left from the fire - re-painted with new and current ideas, formal elements, repetitive motion, and with an overall sense of social equality. See below for a few more details ...

(See the Vanderbilt University show for other ritual-egalite-grid pieces)

Ritual Function: Earth and Time

A little video I made in homage to Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty movie - Earth & Time: Stone Cairn.  The audio is the same audio piece that plays from the bottom of the cairn ... Please excuse the pixel-noise.

Thanks to Kelly and Woodberry Forest (see "News")....
And the Orange (VA) County Review ...

Objects of Art

Ritual Function

"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

A few years ago I began a series of environmental works investigating the relationship of art to time and decay. The series began as performative interventions and collections from open areas and natural settings. The destinations for these sites were pre-determined from stories passed down to me by my mother and aunts – tales of travel and strange events from their past.

The secondary art pieces resulting from these interventions are a combination of documentation, audio, collections, and objects in multiples and combined – all as layers over time.

Bio-Art - Painting & Mix Media

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Brad Birchett, Pomegranite for the People, 41 x 48", 2006

Tea, detritus, pomegranite seeds, natural carbon charcoal, etc ... all working together with acrylic paint on a panel. The paint is non-active but at times serves as a base ... for other elements to work within .... you can NOT keep them away ...

Brad Birchett, xSublimex, 45x62", 2005 Tea and coffee continue to alter the molecular makeup of the canvas, as micro-infestations will eventually eat it all away ....

Brad Birchett, Site Seer 03: The Bleu Grotto, Ontario, Canada, 2004

Microorganisms eat away at natural materials such as cotton, as does entropy over time, while freeze-thaw breaks down ceramic compounds returning the earth to earth, and of course, most omnivores love local apples ...

Bio-art has been defined as "an art practice in which the medium is living matter" - Wikipedia. In these pieces organic matter has been used and allowed to "grow" or flourish in certain areas. Matter such as coffee, tea, and even detritus has long been used as staining agents but in certain climates micro-organisms will invade these substances ... and well, the process is definately an on-going aesthetic and molecular (if not olfactory) change ....

See more Bio-Art pieces in the Ritual Function exhbition and within the Transformation series where installations are left to endure climate ... and molecular change ...