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rosch&portmann had an opening reception last January 12, 2012 for Brad Nelson’s first solo exhibition in New York entitled “Even Mountains Cast Shadows”.
The artworks featured mountain ranges rendered in an ethereal palette and composition. The invisibility and intangibility of faith and the reliance on language to convince someone to believe, instead of direct phenomenological observations, is a prevalent theme in Brad Nelson’s work.
Moving to northern Arizona in 2008, Brad’s heightened experience in the southwest inspired him to use mountains as the conceptual platform for this show. Though the mountains in his oils don’t exist in nature, they do exist as a physical manifestation before he paints them. He creates the model first in his studio as sculptures made from raw pigments using a variety of sculpting tools, such as rulers, razor blades, straws, and paper.
At the opening reception, the artist will create a new work through a performance. Nelson will work publicly in the gallery in the same manner that he normally works in the privacy of his studio. He will sculpt a mountain still life, which will function as the origin of the image presented in the new painting. Nelson will then paint on a stage consisting of an unfinished stretched canvas representing an aerial view of the neighborhood where frosch&portmann is located.
Attendees have the rare opportunity to observe the original and the reproduction. Once the painting is finished, the sculpture will be positioned behind the wall on which the finished painting will hang, so the original event will now be invisible. The reproduction will be the new authority in which faith will be placed and transmitted to the viewer.
Brad Nelson lives and works in Falmouth, Massachusetts. He received his B.A. from the University of Kentucky in Lexington, KY and his M.F.A. from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston/ Tufts University.
Special thanks to Eva Frosch @ frosch&portmann for all the information & warm hospitality extended to Arte Fuse covering this opening.
Brad Nelson: Even Mountains Cast Shadows
frosch&portmann. 53 Stanton Street. New York, NY 10002
Hours: Wednesday to Sunday, noon – 6pm
On View: January 12 – February 26, 2012
article by: Oscar A. Laluyan
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Brad’s art is an example of his inspiring mind to create works that evoke the mountains as warm ,beautiful,and so full of depth that you feel this. He is unique and his paintings at the gallery and otherwise show hisability. a great up and coming artist
This is what it means to me.
The artist captures the essence of life as he methodically, with skill and patience, shapes, molds, and creates his master piece. Then his work is recorded on canvas with oils as a witness to his creation. With the touch of his hands the mountains are moved and what remains is the recording for all to view, study, and enjoy.
Brad captures the essence of life as he methodically, with skill and patience, shapes, molds, and creates his master piece. Then his work is recorded on canvas with oils as a witness to his creation. With the touch of his hands the mountains are removed and what remains is the recording for all to view, study, and enjoy.