David Brady
Max Jewel
February 18 – March 25, 2006
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High Energy Constructs is pleased to announce its inaugural exhibition Max Jewel, featuring new works by David Brady.
David Brady’s artistic practice explores a materiality of both ideas and things via an equal appreciation of craftsmanship and kitsch. His installations are resourcefully and strategically supernatural. Primarily a sculptor, Brady works in relationship to and off of a divergent tradition of sculpture forging new conceptual dimensions, combining his innate sense of materials with drawing, mathematical equations, and computer programming.
For Max Jewel, Brady presents a collection of sculptures made of wood, plaster, plastic, metal, and fabric. Using such materials, Brady explores the connection between naturally occurring elements and their derived uses in contemporary society. Brady’s objects transform both the notions of natural and artificial, actualizing a contemporary sculptural practice both obsessed and detached. Leery of themes, Brady is instead compelled to make work that disassociates from conformity, leaving an ambiguous, but labor-intensive aesthetic experience of potentialities.
David Brady was born in 1978, in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He is a recent addition to Los Angeles, from Denver, Colorado. Brady has exhibited his work throughout Colorado, and his visual work has also been featured in the fall 2002 issue of Zingmagazine, as well as in Eyelevel Magazine. Brady has had solo exhibitions at RULE Gallery and Gallery Sink, in Denver, and at The Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, in Boulder, Colorado. Brady’s most notable group exhibitions include, the 10 + 10 Biennial at The Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver, and Colorado 2002 at The Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center. Working through various media, Brady also has an equal interest in ambient noise and experimental beat forms, writing his own patches and software interfaces, and performing such audio works internationally.
(Mary, 2006)
(Frog, 2006)
(Sheath, 2006)
(Max Jewel Exhibition view)