Jonathan Brand: Some Day

New York Gallery

Jonathan Brand’s varied artistic practice combines aspects of performance, object-making, drawing, and filmmaking. His works are the product of actions propelled by experimentation, problem solving, and discovery. Autobiographical sources are a means to contend with personal history, the notion of failure, and developing new methods of thinking about and making work.

This exhibition begins with a photograph of Brand as a boy standing next to his beloved BMX bike. A desire to create a copy of the bike prompted a search for the original, based on memory and the only existing photograph, and the construction of a machine to make the wooden copy. This obsession also compelled Brand to (re)learn BMX bike tricks as an adult, which he documented in film. The exhibition includes all the components of this process, along with delicate silverpoint drawings based on the video footage of Brand riding and falling off his bike.

Jonathan Brand was born in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada and resides in New York. He completed his MFA at Yale in 2007. This is his first solo New York exhibition.