Andre Bradley graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art, Image Text Ithaca and the Rhode Island School of Design's M.F.A. programs.
While at the Rhode Island School of Design, he received the T.C. Colley Award for photographic excellence. While at the Maryland Institute College of Art, Bradley was named a George Ciscle Scholar in curatorial practice. Bradley's first photo-book, Dark Archives, I-41, was shortlisted for the Photo-Text Book Award at Les Rencontres d'Arles and the Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation First Photo Book Award. Bradley’s work has been collected by public and private art institutions and libraries including the RISD Museum of Art, the Studio Museum in Harlem, and Scripps College’s Ella Strong Denison Library Rare Book Room
“As an artist, I explore memory, identity, and place. I use image-text and curation to imagine a world where art and social awareness are kin. A world where creators use media to merge private and public spheres. My recent projects pose questions about authorship, spectatorship, and traditional forms of distribution. The histories, codes, and values of Black individuals, the art world, and academia frame my work. In it, I address societal issues. I mine my autobiography and family archives. I sample popular music and literature. My work speaks through and comments on contemporary art discourse, academia, and publishing. My practice is not an intellectual exercise. It is a personal, self-preserving engagement with the world.”
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Where’s Walter?
Digital media
Digital media
2020
Where’s Walter? (Gentle on My Mind), 2020 asks the viewer to play a game. In appearing images, a digital cut-out of Walter Scott (1965 -2015) "runs." Outside the local news frame in which we typically reference his and other’s experiences, into a distorted, image-text treatment of the classic children's book Where’s Waldo? Re-presenting the public haunt of unarmed black women and men killed by police. Culled from the artist's series American Slideshows, 2015-Ongoing, Where's Walter? is set to a soundtrack of songs by NWA ("100 Miles and Running"), Frank Sinatra and Aretha Franklin ("Gentle on My Mind"). The artist serves a cut-out figure that runs into and out of America’s archive of National Parks landscape imagery as a flattened, and appropriated image of mourning.
It’s life or death across the American landscape, through burning wildfires, o’er snow and evergreen, through hell and high water.
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