Slater Bradley
Slater Bradley (born 1975) is an American artist and "something of a cult hero"[1] who works in the mediums of photography, drawing, painting, film and video. In 2005, at the age of 30, Bradley became the youngest male artist to have a solo show at The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. He is represented by Team Gallery in New York, Max Wigram Gallery in London, Blum & Poe in Los Angeles and Galería Helga de Alvear in Madrid. He currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
Early Life and Education
Slater Bradley was born and raised in San Francisco, California. He graduated from San Francisco University High School in 1993 and earned a B.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1998.
Career
Bradley launched his career with his first solo show titled The Fried Liver Attack, named after the chess gambit which sacrifices the knight, at Team Gallery in 1999.
He gained notoriety at 25, with his second solo show, Charlatan, also at Team Gallery, which displayed his "real flair for capturing emotional moments"[2] The show featured a video work with actress Chloë Sevigny standing on a cloudy beach reciting Thomas Mann's Tonio Kröger as well as the videos JFK Jr. and Female Gargoyle. In a review of Charlatan, critic Roberta Smith offers the statement "It is a declaration of artistic intent that makes one eager to see what Mr. Bradley will do next."[3] What Bradley did do next was introduce the concept of "The Doppelganger" as a central theme of his work, in 2001 during a show titled Trompe le Monde at Galerie Yvon Lambert in Paris. The video for Trompe le Monde marks the first appearance of The Doppelganger, a concept which continues to be woven into Bradley's work at present.
In 2002 during the show Here are the Young Men at Team Gallery, Bradley included the video Factory Archives, 2001-2002, which would later become the first out of three videos in the acclaimed Doppelganger Trilogy which involves the subject of "recycled illusions that are the reality of pop culture"[4] which is continually referenced throughout Bradley's work.
By 2004, Slater Bradley was considered a "rising younger artist"[5], having held a Museum exhibition in 2003 at the Center for Curatorial Studies Museum, at Bard College and being included in the 2004 Whitney Biennial. Also in 2004, Bradley showed at the Museum of Modern Art's Premiers and premiered the Doppelganger Trilogy at Los Angeles gallery, Blum & Poe, which was later picked up by The Guggenheim.
In 2010, Bradley held an exhibition at the Whitney Museum in collaboration with Ed Lachman, titled Shadow featuring the Doppelganger as River Phoenix.
References
- ^ Stringfield, Anne (8th). "Art Picks". The New Yorker: 17.
{{cite journal}}: Check date values in:|date=and|year=/|date=mismatch (help); Unknown parameter|month=ignored (help) - ^ Mahoney, Robert (21-28). "Review". Time Out New York: 69.
{{cite journal}}: Check date values in:|date=and|year=/|date=mismatch (help); Unknown parameter|month=ignored (help) - ^ Smith, Roberta (September 15, 2000). "Art in Review; Slater Bradley". New York Times. Retrieved 16 May 2011.
- ^ Cotter, Holland (May 17, 2002). "ART IN REVIEW; Slater Bradley -- 'Unknown Pleasures'". New York Times. Retrieved 16 May 2011.
- ^ Kimmelman, Michael (March 12, 2004). "ART REVIEW; Touching All Bases At the Biennial". New York Times. Retrieved 16 May 2011.