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What? Where? When? Why? How? Works by Bradley Hart

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A catalogue of artworks by bradley Hart

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What? Where?When? Why? How?

Works by Bradley Hart

Exhibition: March 6 - 29 at gallery nine5

gallery nine5 is pleased to announce What? Where? When? Why? How?, Bradley Hart’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. The exhibit converges on Hart’s unique creation process of his current body of work, “Assemblages.” What? Where? When? Why? How? will be in the gallery from March 6 - 29, 2013, while a few of Hart’s works will be on display concurrently at SCOPE NY from March 6 - 10, 2013 in the iconic Moynihan Station.

“Bradley Hart’s work uses paint yet he’s not a painter. He injects it, peels it and assembles it, but he never actually paints. Although on a material level paint is his medium most of the time, his conceptual methods are as much his medium as the paint object. Hart may be best understood as a conceptual materialist as distinct from how conceptual artists tend to lack concern with the formal aspects of an art object. Anyone seeing Hart’s work would no doubt consider them paintings. But in reality, they are something entirely different, something deeper and more difficult to define. The different bodies of Hart’s work...create a cycle of construction, deconstruction and reconstruction. Understanding Hart’s ever-evolving system requires a global overview of the very distinct bodies of work he creates and their ultimate connection to each other.

The Wasted Paint is, as Hart puts it, ‘authentic’, by which he means it is a naturally generated byproduct of all his processes. It is literally the paint that spills over from the injections and drippings from the created waste that end up on the drop sheet. Hart peels these pieces off the drop sheet and considers each piece as precious visual material for use in subsequent three-dimensional assemblages, which, like Rauschenberg, question the very nature of what a painting or sculpture is. Sometimes even just a single large piece of wasted paint stands on its own as an artwork. This harkens back to Duchamp’s ready-mades.

The Created Waste series is a way Hart takes control of waste production, by ‘inauthentically’ (i.e. deliberately) dripping paint in order to produce the droppings on the floor for his abstract sculptural ‘paintings’. Hart

mimics and exaggerates what happens naturally and accidentally into a deliberate, calculated process of waste creation. Although a viewer’s eyes would not be able to distinguish between a wasted paint and a created waste painting, the extent to which Hart is truly a conceptual artist lies in the importance he gives to the fundamental difference in method, regardless that the outcomes appear the same. The processes are diametrically opposed, one the result of control, the other the product of surrender.

[Hart is] much like a sculptor with a talent for mechanical engineering, who artistically builds his ideas in such a way that he devises rather complex processes and methods that lead to the creation of an open-ended cycle of art-making. The ‘Wasted Paint’ and ‘Created Waste’ series visually remind one of cross between Chamberlain and Pollock. They are colorful abstract constructs, assembled by Hart in a variety of sizes like sculptural paint on the picture plane. They don’t bear any resemblance to the photorealist injection paintings or the Richteresque impressions, these are rather in line with the tradition of abstract expressionism and action painting. While assembling these pieces of ‘waste’, Hart is impulsively responding to the material on an emotional level rather than controlling their creation with a logical or calculated plan.

Wasted paint is where all roads lead. In every series produced by Hart, wasted paint is an inevitable byproduct. And no matter how much art he manages to create out of his seemingly self-contained sustainable system, there will always be waste to be recycled into evermore art.”

--Excerpt from “The Madness to Bradley Hart’s Method: Technique Becomes Technology and Art Spawns Art” by Deborah Zafman, Ph.D*.

*Deborah Zafman earned her Ph.D. in the history of art from UC Berkeley. A former Paris gallerist, independent curator and art critic, Deborah,

in 2011, left Paris to co-found Zafman-Greenberg Art Advisory in New York City.

Injections | JeremyAcrylic paint injected in bubble wrap54 x 44 1/4 in | 137.2 x 112.4 cm

Impressions | JeremyAcrylic paint on wood68 1/2 x 47 3/4 in | 174 x 121.3 cm

Created Waste - Untitled #18Acrylic paint on canvas48 x 60 in | 121.9 x 152.4 cm

Created Waste - Untitled #15Acrylic paint on canvas60 x 48 in | 152.4 x 121.9 cm

Wasted Paint - Untitled #12Acrylic paint on wood40 x 30 in | 101.6 x 76.2 cm

Wasted Paint - Untitled #15Acrylic paint on wood48 x 24 1/8 in | 122 x 61.3 cm

Created Waste - Untitled #17Acrylic paint on canvas36 x 60 in | 91.5 x 152.4 cm

Injections | CanvasAcrylic paint injected in bubble wrap40 x 40 in | 102 x 102 cm

Created Waste - Untitled #16Acrylic paint on canvas60 x 48 in | 152.4 x 122 cm

Wasted Paint - Untitled #17Acrylic paint on canvas36 x 60 in | 91.4 x 152.4 cm

Created Waste - Untitled #3Acrylic paint on canvas24 x 48 in | 61 x 122 cm

Created Waste - Untitled #6Acrylic paint on canvas 40 x 30 in | 101.6 x 76.2 cm

Wasted Paint - Untitled #7Acrylic paint on canvas48 x 60 in | 122 x 152.4 cm

Created Waste - Untitled #14Acrylic paint on canvas80 x 60 in | 203.2 x 152.4 cm

Created Waste - Untitled #4Acrylic paint on canvas30 x 40 in | 76.2 x 101.6 cm

Wasted Paint - Untitled #16Acrylic and injected bubble wrap on canvas84 x 60 in | 213.3 x 152.4 cm

Created Waste - Untitled #8Acrylic paint on canvas45 x 84 in | 114.3 x 213.4 cm

(detail) Created Waste & Wasted Paint

(detail) Injections | Jeremy

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