Brad Downey (1980) is an American artist, currently lives in Berlin.
Throughout the art history, the installation has been approached in various ways, yet Brad Downey tries to examine the possibilities of media by using it as a tool for a social comment. Namely, by carefully selecting and using objects in an unconventional manner, often in an urban environment, the artist questions their inherent function though his works are a temporary disruption, sometimes remaining in place for as short a time as a few minutes. So, by re-arranging these materials into the novel, inventive, and incisive new forms, Brad Downey not only detaches them from their original context but also forms artworks that are exhilarating, subtle, comic and very often provocative.
He earned a fine art master’s degree in painting and sculpture from the Slade School of Art, where he studied under Bruce Mclean. Pratt Institute drew him to New York City in 1998. In 2007, Downey was awarded SEEDA Arts Plus award for a commission with the Tour de France.
Besides installation and urban interventions, Downey was interested in film, so he raised the funds and shoot his first feature-length film, Public Discourse. It is a documentary about street art which gained success and was screened around the world including the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London and the Copenhagen Documentary Film Festival. The ongoing activity of Brad Downey seem to develop rapidly, and the urban space remains his studio so the immediate participation and the transformation of ephemeral moments make his art practice in perfect balance with everyday politics and life.
© 2018. All images are copyrighted © by Brad Downey. The use of any image from this site is prohibited unless prior written permission is obtained.
Throughout the art history, the installation has been approached in various ways, yet Brad Downey tries to examine the possibilities of media by using it as a tool for a social comment. Namely, by carefully selecting and using objects in an unconventional manner, often in an urban environment, the artist questions their inherent function though his works are a temporary disruption, sometimes remaining in place for as short a time as a few minutes. So, by re-arranging these materials into the novel, inventive, and incisive new forms, Brad Downey not only detaches them from their original context but also forms artworks that are exhilarating, subtle, comic and very often provocative.
He earned a fine art master’s degree in painting and sculpture from the Slade School of Art, where he studied under Bruce Mclean. Pratt Institute drew him to New York City in 1998. In 2007, Downey was awarded SEEDA Arts Plus award for a commission with the Tour de France.
Besides installation and urban interventions, Downey was interested in film, so he raised the funds and shoot his first feature-length film, Public Discourse. It is a documentary about street art which gained success and was screened around the world including the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London and the Copenhagen Documentary Film Festival. The ongoing activity of Brad Downey seem to develop rapidly, and the urban space remains his studio so the immediate participation and the transformation of ephemeral moments make his art practice in perfect balance with everyday politics and life.
© 2018. All images are copyrighted © by Brad Downey. The use of any image from this site is prohibited unless prior written permission is obtained.
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| Mr Brad Downey |
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| Wall |
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| A Building Is A Building |
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| American Paranoia: New Sub-Vehicle Technology |
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| Wall |
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| Barricade |
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| Barricade |
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| Beginning and The End |
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| Beginning and The End |
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| Bench Lift |
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| Bench Lift |
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| Bench Marks |
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| Bike and Sidewalk |
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| Bottle Tie |
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| Wall |
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| Broken Bike Lane |
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| Chalk Mark (hopscotch) |
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| Dedicated to Sarkozy |
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| Every Path Has It’s Puddle |
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| Fence Hack |
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| flower art |
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| Fountain |
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| Fountain |
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| Hotel L'Era De Can, Burges |
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| Hotel L'Era De Can, Burges |
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| Hotel L'Era De Can, Burges |
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| Hotel L'Era De Can, Burges |
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| House of Cards #3 |
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| Low Mow |
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| magnets shopped |
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| Misunderstood Lovers (Square) |
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| Operation Beton |
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| partizaning |
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| Reverse Culture Shock |
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| spiral |
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| Street Stone Move |
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| Take A Seat |
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| The City is Dead |
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| The Fathers of the Nation, 2016 performance |
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| This is How We Roll |
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| Traffic Jam For Berlin |
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| Un Stitching |
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| Up-Sign-Down |
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| Uso Dei Libri |
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| Uso Dei Libri |
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| It's a wonderful world! |
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