Ry David Bradley, "Hyq.>K4.", 2019, dye cotton tapestry

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Ry David Bradley
Ry David Bradley, "Hyq.>K4.", 2019, dye cotton tapestry
2019

About the Item

These new works by Ry David Bradley are part of a new series that first debuted at HEART Museum in Herning, Denmark in a two-person installation titled “LETMEIN” with Jon Rafman. Having figured out how to transfer a digital painting to a jacquard woven tapestry, Bradley executed elaborately patterned abstract compositions and stretched them like paintings. This work is part of Bradley's second solo show, "Search History," at The Hole. His work blends more antique ways of image making with a slick futuristic exhibition design and lighting scheme. The imagery Bradley weaves together with custom digital brushes mixes ancient art with futuristic compositions only possible from a digital platform. The idea of a search history being someone’s digital fingerprint, a unique bread crumb trail through an infinite image forest is suggested by the searching lights trying to track them around the room. The relationship between computing and weaving has numerous flash points of contact over the past few hundred years, from weaving patterns creating the groundwork for the first computer algorithms to punch card computing mimicking pattern card to code being a type of math weaving and the million other shared metaphors the two very different disciplines each feature. Here, the work is made with each thread being a different color and by the depth of that line within the weave, like a little average color pixel zone, dictating the perceived color at a distance. Instead of printing a digital painting onto a fabric, which is sadly what most digital painting still consists of today, this image is buried and revealed in the thick jacquard, with limited colors of thread a la CMYK making a full spectrum of color. Ry David Bradley (b. 1979 Melbourne, Australia) received his MFA, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne. Since then he has exhibited widely both at galleries and museum in his native Australia, as well as in exhibitions and fairs in New York, London, Milan, Los Angeles, Berlin, Paris, and Palm Beach. Bradley is represented by Tristan Koenig in Australia, Bill Brady Gallery in Kansas City and Miami, and Brand New Gallery in Milan. His work is in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, Herning Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon Housemusem, and numerous private collections around the world.

Creator:
Ry David Bradley (1979, Australian)
Creation Year:
2019
Dimensions:
Height: 80 in (203.2 cm)Width: 130 in (330.2 cm)
Medium:
Tapestry,Cotton
Movement & Style:
Contemporary
Period:
2010-
Condition:
Gallery Location:
New York, NY
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU99314236961