Special Guest Artist Letitia Quesenberry and her show “Little Darlins”.
Images by Matthew & Mitchell Bradley ©2017. All rights reserved.
this, this is for you is an exhibition of artworks by the late artist Stephen Irwin. Matthew and Mitchell Bradley co-curated this show with guidance and support from Chris Radtke of Zephyr Gallery and Debra and John Lair.
Stephen Irwin in his studio, 2009.
Night Bloom is a series of images that were created from photographs of sculptures from Stephen Irwin’s final show at Zephyr Gallery in the Winter of 2010. Using scraps of plastic from years of drawing on and trimming them, Stephen created extraordinary "flowers" with piano wires and magnets which delicately held them together. We took hundreds of photos during the install and after 4 years we decided to manipulate the images to create a mirrored version of the original sculptural works, making them even more symmetrical and floral.
This series was created in Spring of 2015 and dedicated to the memory of our mentor and friend, artist Stephen Irwin.
Images by Matthew & Mitchell Bradley ©2015. All rights reserved.
Summer Heat is a group exhibition shown during the Summer of 2011 at L.O.T., Land Of Tomorrow Gallery in Louisville, Ky. curated by Joey Yates and Matthew Bradley.
Paintings by Joel McDonald
"Sappho" Installation by Letitia Quesenberry
Drawings by Sarah Lasley
Underwear Collection by Louis Bickett
Glass Sculpture by Arturo Sandoval
Film Negative Quilt and Glass Sculpture by Arturo Sandoval
Glass Sculpture by Arturo Sandoval
Image by Stephen Irwin
Co-curator Joey Yates
Balloon Sculpture by Richard Campbell.
Image on left by Stephen Irwin.
Drawing on right by Brenton Fisher.
Portal is an installation work shown at the Speed Art Museum's satellite space, Local Speed in the Summer of 2013 in the group show "Welcome Neighbors: Art from NULU". Using foam pool noodles, flashing glow balls, neon colored ribbons and fiber optic butterflies to create a transportive spectacle to give viewers the sensation that on the other side lay another dimension or alternate reality.
All images © 2015 Matthew and Mitchell Bradley. All rights reserved.
Jumping Jacks is an installation of 250 miniature plastic horses and jockeys shown in three different incarnations. First as an explosion of horses running outward in all directions symbolic of fireworks at the annual Thunder Over Louisville party at the Quonset Hut in the Spring of 2012. Secondly, shown later that Summer in a group show at Swanson Contemporary in Louisville, Ky. The horses corralled into a never ending rainbow colored mobius loop. And finally in our studio as a marching army of ant-like, gravity defying wall crawlers changing colors when they meet a corner.
Images by Matthew & Mitchell Bradley ©2015. All rights reserved.
Life Raft is an installation piece from the show, "Swimming Hole" at the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft in the Summer of 2012. Essentially a giant weaving of 300 foam pool noodles spanning approx. 30 feet in width and 10 feet tall.
Images by Matthew & Mitchell Bradley ©2015. All rights reserved.
Two Bodies is a large-scale earthworks sculpture by artist Meg Webster. Commissioned in 1997 by Norman and Chris Radtke, Matthew and Mitchell Bradley have served as the primary caretakers since 1998 and revitalize the circular pond, brimming pool fountain and terraced waterfalls every Spring. These are a series of images created from their experiences.
Images by Matthew and Mitchell Bradley ©2016
