Bradley Pitts
Bio: Bradley Pitts was born and raised in New York City. He studied art, architecture, and engineering at MIT and was a resident at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten (NL). His work has been shown at the Jewish Museum, Pioneer Works, UC Riverside, Netherlands Institute for Media Art (NL), and Kunsthalle Bern (CH), among other venues.
www.bradleypitts.net
Instagram: @bradleypittsdotnet
Thesis Exhibition
Artist Statement: My work speaks to loss without physical absence—an experience that relates both to the environmental and socioeconomic precarities of the current moment as well as my growing up in an alcoholic home. My materials (whether found, purchased, made, harvested, or acquired for personal use) are employed as residue—of systems and cultures, of thoughts and beliefs, of lives lived and actions performed. The resulting works are pile-ups of physical and mental forms in which my materials are forced to meet and grapple with one another. As with any forced cohabitation, some of the elements find harmony with their neighbors while others produce conflict or contradiction. Some a tense silence.
The work is often emotional, funny, serious, and ironic at the same time.
L to R: #jetskilife (20" x 16", Oil and acrylic on panel, 2021); For My Sweet Baby Boy, Love Daddy (54" x 276" x 96", Tar; one month of my non-biodegradable trash; personal belongings of my grandfather, father, son, and myself; air vent; polyurethane; silicone; scent oils; aromatic diffuser, 2021); For My Sweet Baby Boy, Love Daddy (details), (54" x 276" x 96", Tar; one month of my non-biodegradable trash; personal belongings of my grandfather, father, son, and myself; air vent; polyurethane; silicone; scent oils; aromatic diffuser, 2021)
