Brad Downey

Brad Downey (* 1980 in Louisville , Kentucky ) is an American artist. He lives in Berlin .

Life

Downey was born in Louisville and traveled the country as a member of a United States Marine Corps family. In 1998 he moved to New York and began studying film at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn . He graduated in 2003. His thesis is a documentary on street art entitled Public Discourse . This has been shown worldwide, including at the London Institute of Contemporary Arts and at the Copenhagen International Documentary Festival.

In 2003 Downey moved to London and obtained a Masters degree in Painting and Sculpture from the Slade School of Art in London with Bruce McLean .

He gained notoriety through his collaboration with the street art artist Leon Reid IV AKA VERBS, AKA Darius Jones which was also the subject of a novel.

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Downey mostly creates three-dimensional objects in public spaces. He himself describes these works as sculptures . His art also has a strong performative character.

In 2008, Downey sprayed green paint on the shop windows of KaDeWe - on behalf of Lacoste .

His works are represented in the Reinking Collection , among others .

A wooden statue of the US First Lady Melania Trump made by him in 2019 near the Slovenian city of Sevnica was willfully set on fire by strangers on July 4, 2020 and removed because of the damage it caused.

Exhibitions

• Urbis in Manchester
• Tate Modern
• Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin
• Basil Art Fair in Miami
• ICA in London
• Mass MOCA , USA
• Peacock Visual Arts , Scotland
• 2008: fresh air smells funny , Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche , Osnabrück.
• 2008: Call it what you like! Collection Rik Reinking , KunstCentret Silkeborg Bad, Denmark.
• 2009: ARTotale from Leuphana University Lüneburg .
• 2009: Urban Art - Works from the Reinking Collection , Weserburg Museum for Modern Art , Bremen.
• 2011: Street Art - meanwhile in deepest east anglia, thunderbirds were go… , Von der Heydt-Museum , Kunsthalle Barmen , Wuppertal.
• 2013: POESIA - Works from the Reinking Collection , Städtische Galerie Delmenhorst , Delmenhorst.
• 2017: Magic City - The art of the street

literature

• Zipco, Ed. The Adventures of Darius and Downey: And other True Tales of Street Art, As Told to Ed Zipco. Thames & Hudson (2008) ISBN 0-500-51395-3 .
• Sven Nommensen, Iben From: Call it what you like !: Collection Rik Reinking . 1st edition, KunstCentret Silkeborg Bad, Denmark (2008) ISBN 87-91252-23-7 (exhibition catalog).
• André Lindhorst, Rik Reinking : Fresh Air Smells Funny: an exhibition with selected urban artists. 1st edition, Kehrer Verlag Heidelberg (2009) ISBN 3-939583-94-4 (exhibition catalog).
• Ingo Clauß , Stephen Riolo, Sotirios Bahtsetzis: Urban Art: Works from the Reinking Collection . 1st edition, Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern (2009) ISBN 978-3-7757-2503-3 (exhibition catalog).
• Annett Reckert, Rik Reinking : POESIA - Works from the Reinking Collection . 1st edition. Städtische Galerie Delmenhorst (2013) ISBN 978-3-944683-00-3 (exhibition catalog).
• Brad Downey: Spontaneous Sculptures. Gestalten Berlin (2011) ISBN 978-3-89955-379-6 .
• Brad Downey: The Floor, The Table and The Wall. Published by Sparkassen-Kulturstiftung; Possible Books (2013) (exhibition catalog).
• Patrick Nguyen: Beyond the street. The 100 leading figures in urban art. Gestalten Berlin (2010) ISBN 978-3-89955-290-4 .
• Rafael Schacter: The world atlas of street art and graffiti. Aurum London (2013) ISBN 978-1-78131-073-1 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Brad Downey in the catalog of the German National Library
• Brad Downey Official Website
• reinking PROJECTS
• Brad Downey on kunstaspekte.de
• Brad Downey at the Video Data Bank
• Sculpture (Tour de France) on BBC
• Videos of Brad Downey: "The Studio" (2011), "House of Cards II" (2007), "Mieze" (2007)

Press

• tall bench
• heart cut
• Interview in Tip , 2008
• Interview with Brad Downey in Chief Magazine

Individual evidence

1. ^ Rafael Schacter: The world atlas of street art and graffiti . Aurum, 2013, ISBN 978-1-78131-073-1 , pp. 221 .
2. ^ Brad Downey CV. Retrieved July 24, 2015 . 
3. ^ Rafael Schacter: The world atlas of street art and graffiti . Aurum, 2013, ISBN 978-1-78131-073-1 , pp. 221 .
4. ^ Brad Downey CV. Retrieved July 24, 2015 . 
5. ↑ Kadewe - Zeitschrift Art ( Memento of the original from June 1, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; Kadewe - taz 
6. ↑ Jack Guy: Melania Trump statue in Slovenia removed after being set on fire. In: CNN , July 9, 2020 (English). Retrieved July 9, 2020.
7. ^ Exhibition “Fresh air smells funny”. Street art, graffiti and urban art in the Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche . City of Osnabrück, accessed on May 18, 2013 : “On display are street art, graffiti and urban art, including works by Herbert Baglione (Brazil), Boxi (Great Britain), Brad Downey (USA), DAIM (Germany), D * Face (Great Britain), Hera (Germany), [[Mark Jenkins (Artist) |]] (USA), Daniel Man (Germany), Os Gemeos (Brazil), Pius Portman (Switzerland), Swoon (USA), Tilt (France) , Vitche (Brazil), Zevs (France), Zezao (Brazil). " 
8. ^ André Lindhorst, Rik Reinking: Fresh Air Smells Funny: an exhibition with selected urban artists. 1st edition, Kehrer Verlag Heidelberg (2009) ISBN 3-939583-94-4 (exhibition catalog).
9. ↑ Call it what you like! Collection Rik Reinking . KunstCentret Silkeborg Bad, 2008, accessed on June 27, 2013 (English): “The exhibitions includes works of art by, among others: Till FE Haupt (DE), Mirko Reisser alias DAIM (DE), Rainer Splitt (DE), Banksy , (UK), ZEVS (FR), Otavio og Gustavo Pandolfo alias Os Gemeos (BRA), Santiago Sierra (ESP), Katsuhiro Saiki (JP), Liam Gillick (GB), Barbara Kruger (USA), Toshiya Kobayashi (JP) , Tony Ousler (USA) and Nan Goldin (USA). " 
10. ↑ Sven Nommensen, Iben From: Call it what you like !: Collection Rik Reinking . 1st edition, KunstCentret Silkeborg Bad, Denmark (2008) ISBN 87-91252-23-7 (exhibition catalog).
11. ^ Leuphana University of Lüneburg. Leuphana Urban Art Project. (No longer available online.) Leuphana University of Lüneburg, October 5, 2009, archived from the original on January 6, 2014 ; accessed on July 21, 2013 : “From October 5 to 9, 2009, 35 internationally known street artists conquered the urban area of ​​Lüneburg.” Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
12. ^ André Weikard: Street Art. Lüneburg's University of Leuphana welcomes its freshmen with an art spectacle. At the start of the semester, 35 street artists from ten countries are giving the city a new coat of paint. In: Focus Online. Focus Online, October 7, 2009, accessed on July 10, 2013 : “35 international artists come on behalf of the city and university to spruce up the pretty and hip town with 70,000 inhabitants. The Hamburg curator Rik Reinking invited them. " 
13. ^ Urban Art. Works from the Reinking Collection . New Museum Weserburg Bremen Foundation, 2009, accessed on June 25, 2013 : “Participating artists: Akim, Ash, Herbert Baglione, Banksy , Blu , Boxi, Bronco, Dave the Chimp, Brad Downey, Ben Eine, Shepard Fairey , [ [Mark Jenkins (artist) |]], Kaws, Daniel Man , Miss Van, Mode 2, Os Gêmeos , Mirko Reisser (DAIM) , Space Invader , Swoon, DTagno, Tilt, Vitché, Heiko Zahlmann, Zevs, Zezão " 
14. ^ Ingo Clauss, Stephen Riolo, Sotirios Bahtsetzis: Urban Art: Works from the Reinking Collection . 1st edition, Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern (2009) ISBN 978-3-7757-2503-3 .
15. ↑ Ruhs-Woitschützke, Irmgard: street art. At the Kunsthalle Barmen. In: Rhenish ART. KulturMagazin-online. Editorial office ImDialog, November 2008, accessed on May 30, 2013 : “The curator Rik Reinking made the selection of the artists with a wealth of knowledge. Participants: Ash, Herbert Baglione, Boxi, Brad Downey, Ben Eine, Faith47, Boris Hoppek , [[Mark Jenkins (artist) |]], JR , Os Gemeos , Mirko Reisser (DAIM ), Swoon, Zezao " 
16. ^ Street Art. Artists. (No longer available online.) REINKINGPROJEKTE, 2011, archived from the original on July 9, 2013 ; accessed on June 23, 2013 (German / English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
17. ^ Annett Reckert, Rik Reinking : POESIA - Works from the Reinking Collection . 1st edition. Municipal Gallery Delmenhorst (2013) ISBN 978-3-944683-00-3 .