This amazing video displays an offset scene of a young woman bouncing on a bed and removing her top, edited to appear upside down and in slow motion. Exploring themes of time and sexuality, Bradley uses new media here to alter the manner in which the documentation is viewed. With a dreamlike slowed down soundtrack and deliberate screen tearing, this piece takes advantage of every idiosyncrasy video has to offer. Ideal for a modern collection of new media.
Slater Bradley (born 1975) is an American artist and "something of a cult hero" who works in the mediums of photography, drawing, painting, film and video. Dubbed the "unintended king of serendipity" by Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson, he has exhibited collaborative work with Ed Lachman at the Aspen Art Museum and the Whitney Museum of Armerican Art. 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 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.
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" The show featured a video work with actress Chloe Sevigny standing on a cloudy beach reciting Thomas Mann's Tonio Kroger 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." Next, Bradley introduced the concept of "The Dopplganger" 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, portrayed by model Ben Brock, 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" which is continually referenced throughout Bradley's work.
By 2004, Slater Bradley was considered a "rising younger artist", having held a solo exhibition in 2003 at the Center for Curatorial Studies Museum at Bard College and being included in the 2004 Whitney Biennial with the video Theory and Observation which critic Jerry Saltz described as one of "the most ravishing works in the show". Also in 2004, Bradley showed at the Museum of Modern Art's Premieres and exhibited the Doppelganger Trilogy at the Los Angeles gallery, Blum & Poe, which was later shown by The Guggenheim in 2005, under the title Recent Acquisitions: Slater Bradley's Doppelganger Trilogy.
In 2010, Bradley held an exhibition at the Whitney Museum in collaboration with Academy Award nominated Cinematographer Ed Lachman, titled Shadow featuring the Doppelganger as River Phoenix. Shadow served as a prologue to the unfinished Hollywood film Dark Blood.
Most recently, Bradley has produced work around a central theme of the "lost woman," an idea sourced chiefly from Chris Marker's film La Jetee. After Marker's death on July 29, 2012., Bradley began work on what would become his homage to the 1962 sci-fi masterpiece. His video, entitled she was my la jetée premiered on Nowness.com on April 5, 2013 and was shown soon after in an eponymous exhibition at Galeria Helga de Alvear in Madrid, Spain as well as part of Sequoia: Recent Work by Slater Bradley at Cornell University's Johnson Museum of Art.
In a parallel investigation, Bradley was at work on a lifelike copper casting of his high school baseball glove, revisiting the Salingerian themes found in his 2009-2011 video, don't let me disappear. Surprisingly, the copper sculpture, Cancer Rising, was completed just as Shane Salerno's documentary Salinger was released in the U.S., and only a few months prior to the peculiar leak of three unpublished Salinger stories. The first of these, "The Ocean Full of Bowling Balls" brings to life a familiar character from Catcher in the Rye, a boy in the habit of inscribing verses of poetry, selections from William Blake, John Keats and Robert Browning , across his first baseman's glove.
Galerie Arndt & Partner – Zimmerstrasse 90-91 – Berlin, Germany
1998 : UCLA University of California Los Angeles (BA) – 405 Hilgard Avenue – Los Angeles CA, United States
| Actress (Green 01) | ||
| Date of creation : 2001 Medium : C print Size : 30 x 38 inch | | |
| Keys in the mailbox | ||
| Date of creation : 2001 Medium : C print Size : 36 x 43 cm | | |
| My doppleganger as Ian Curtis in Charlatan pose (tree) | ||
| Date of creation : 2000 Medium : C print Size : 19 x 24 inch | | |
| Its hotter in here than it is on the street | ||
| Date of creation : 2000 Medium : C print Size : 19 x 24 inch | | |
| The Laurel Tree (Beach) | ||
| Date of creation : 2000 Medium : Video projection Technical data : dvd | | |
| I was rooting for you (the enchanted hunters) # 1 | ||
| Date of creation : 2000 Medium : C print Size : 17 x 23 inch | | |
Hope From A Dark Place
Blum & Poe – Los Angeles CA, United States
11/03/2007 – 12/22/2007
Galeria Helga de Alvear – Madrid, Spain
05/17/2007 – 06/30/2007
Slater Bradley
Team Gallery – New York NY, United States
2002 – 05/31/2002
Keys in the mailbox
Galerie Arndt & Partner – Berlin, Germany
01/14/2002 – 02/23/2002
Galerie Art & Public – Geneva GE, Switzerland
11/2001 – 12/2001
Trompe Le Monde
Galerie Yvon Lambert – Paris, France
2001
Home Town Hero
Refusalon – San Francisco CA, United States
2001
Charlatan
Team Gallery – New York NY, United States
09/07/2000 – 10/07/2000
Special Projects Series
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center – Long Island NY, United States
09/01/2000 – 31/11/2000
I was rooting for you
Irvine Fine Arts Center – Irvine CA, United States
2000
The Fried Liver Attack
Team Gallery – New York NY, United States
1999
Video art uses both the apparatus and processes of television and video.
It can take many forms: recordings that are broadcast, viewed in
galleries or other venues, or distributed as tapes or discs; sculptural
installations, which may incorporate one or more television receivers or
monitors, displaying ‘live’ or recorded images and sound; and
performances in which video representations are included.
With the rise of Conceptual Art,
many artists who explored relationships between themselves, the
physical world and other people used video as a convenient medium for
recording events.
During the 1980s video art established its own context of production,
exhibition and criticism, with organizations emerging in North America
and western Europe to support and promote ‘video culture’. Television
producers began to buy and commission work from artists, and specialist
venues, festivals, courses and workshops for video proliferated.
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