Bradly Brown Photography • Illustration • Design
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Raised in the desert southwest, Bradly currently resides in New York. While always having a strong passion for illustration, Bradly instead chose to pursue studies in photography and print. Along with the visual arts, music has also played a significant role in creative pursuits. Upholding a strong belief of holistic creation, Bradly has studied and explored a wide range of creative mediums. Utilizing contemporary technology and techniques deemed obsolete by a digital age, Bradly’s work resonates with the process of organic decay, scrap-heap epiphanies and the reframing of consumer-culture ephemera as accidental poetry.

EDUCATION:

Texas Christian University
MFA in Sculpture, School of visual arts, 2013

University of North Texas
BFA in Photography, School of Visual Arts, 2002

EXHIBITION RECORDS:

2012
Mercury Retrograde, 500 X, Dallas, TX
Sons and Daughters of the Sun and Star II, Hiroshima City University, Hiroshima, Japan
In-Transit:Station Domination, HOMECOMING!, Fort Worth, TX
Sons and Daughters of the Sun and Star I, Fort Worth Contemporary Arts, Fort Worth, TX
Experiencing Perspectives, Mercedes-Benz Financial Services, Fort Worth, TX
Transmissions, Fort Worth Contemporary Arts, Fort Worth, TX
Hands on an Art Body, HOMECOMING!, Oliver Francis Gallery, Dallas, TX
The Bridged Exhibition, Dallas, TX

2011
Fresh Meat College Expo, 500 X, Dallas, Tx
Launch Party, HOMECOMING!, Fort Worth
Soundgazing, Issue Project Room, Brooklyn NY

2009
Brave Brooklyn, The Open Space Alliance, Brooklyn, NY

2007
Aqua Art Miami Annual, Miami, FL
Beastly Words (solo show), Road Agent, Dallas, TX
Agent On The Road, Art Palace, Austin, TX
The Audience Is Listening, Road Agent, Dallas, TX

2006
Two by Two, amFAR benefit, Rachofsky House, Dallas, TX
Feral Nature, UTD, Dallas, TX
Barnyard (solo show), Road Agent, Dallas, TX

2005
On Leaping from Airplanes, Splashlight Studios, New York, NY

2002
15,540 miles, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX
XVSY, Gallery 803, Denton, TX
36-24-36 HUT!, Union Gallery, Denton, TX
Emerging, Cora Stafford Gallery, Denton, TX

HONORS AND AWARDS:
2008
Bean Distinguished Lecture Series, St. Anselm College

2002
Robert Eger Scholarship for Photography, University of North Texas

BIBLIOGRAPHY:
William Staley, “Layered”, Starved Magazine, no. 2 (fall 2008): 28-33.
Matthew Bourbon, “Boys Will Be Boys”, Flash Art, no. 249 (July-September 2006): 60.
Titus O’Brien, “Barnyard”, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2006
Noah Simblist, Catalogue Essay for “Feral Nature” at University of Texas, Dallas, 2006

ARTIST COLLECTIVES:
HOMECOMING! Committee Co-Founder

WORKSHOPS:
2011
Fort Worth ISD Educators Sculpture Workshop, Texas Christian University

2008
Alternative Process Photography, St. Anselm College

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
STRATEGY STUDIO, New York, NY: 2010-20011
Graphic / web design, principal photographer, corporate branding
Clients included: ASME, Bat Blue, Cartesian Capital, PineBridge Investments, YMCA

THE HAPPY CORP. GLOBAL, New York, NY: 2007-2009
Graphic design, principal photographer, event production
Clients included: Apple, Amy’s Babies, Brooklyn Brewery, Dewar’s, Edelman PR, MoMA, VH1,

TABLE OF THE ELEMENTS / RADIUM Records: 2006-2010
Art Direction, graphic design and illustration, photo archivist

THE WOODY GUTHRIE ARCHIVE, New York, NY: 2007- 2011
Archive photographer, creative services
The Live Wire, Woody Guthrie, 2007. (2008 Grammy Recipient, Best Historical Album)
My Name Is New York, 2011

CHRISTIE’S auction house, New York, NY: 2005-2007
Image processer, photo retoucher, photo assistant, image archiving