brookes britcher /// artist

statement

Exhale to slippery floors, cardboard containers, various bound books, hallways you discover in your home, empty frames, silhouettes, lines left on faces, fancy mortgage payments, washroom mirrors, battered white blood cells, daytime television stars, future Olympic athletes and proven financial advisers.

It sounds like a sore preacher,

and looks like asphalt bruises drawn under eyes

and it feels like sleep in the afternoon.

Maybe. To both of us now.

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My work functions as a relic, generated from real and constructed moments. Its goal is to exist in a liminal space where an illusory imagination briefly replaces memory.

contact

brookesbritcher@gmail.com / 215 896 3222 / www.brookesbritcher.wordpress.com

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biography

Brookes Britcher received his MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art and his BS from Drexel University. He is a multi-disciplinary artist that maintains a permanent studio practice at Adaptation. Over the last ten years his work has been exhibited around the country in numerous curated and group shows, and exists in various private collections, most notably J.W. Mahoney of Art In America and the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C. and Tim Rollins of Tim Rollins & K.O.S..

Selected exhibitions include the Chicago Apparel Center (Chicago, IL), the  Urban Institute for Contemporary Art (Grand Rapids, MI), the White Box (Nyc, NY), the Curators Office (Washington, D.C.), the James Oliver Gallery (Philadelphia, PA), The Gallery Project (Ann Arbor, MI), the Nexus Foundation (Philadelphia, PA), the New Wilmington Art Association (Wilmington, DE) and the Cranbrook Art Museum (Bloomfield Hills, MI). He has lectured at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, MI, as well as been a Visiting Critic of Architecture at Lawrence Technical University in Troy, MI

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affiliations

Adaptation, Philadelphia, Pa (2005-Present)

New Wilmington Art Association (NWAA), Wilmington, De (2008-Present)

selected exhibitions

2009

Eclosion, Wilmington Fringe Festival, Wilmington, De

NWAA Group Exhibition, New Wilmington Art Association, Wilmington, De

2nd Annual Benefit Auction, Studio 34, Philadelphia, Pa

ArtFutura 2009, Chicago Apparel Center, Chicago, Il (Curated by James Rondeau – Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art, The Art Institute of Chicago)

Picture Poems, Barbara Crawford Gallery, Philadelphia, Pa

NWAA Presents: Brookes Britcher and Amanda Kamen, New Wilmington Art Association, Wilmington, De

Material Afterlife, The Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, Mi

I Hate Lucy, Russell Industrial Center, Detroit, Mi

2008

Grand Small Works, F.U.E.L. Collection, Philadelphia, Pa

A Beautiful Find, James Oliver Gallery, Philadelphia, Pa (Curated by Veronica Scarpellino – Independent Curator)

U R Here, Adaptation, Philadelphia, Pa

Litmus, Adaptation, Philadelphia, Pa

Mychrophobialactic, Adaptation, Philadelphia, Pa

Slow Graffiti, Adaptation, Philadelphia, Pa

Frontier, Adaptation, Philadelphia, Pa

Surface, The Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, Mi (Curated by Cristin Velliky – University of Michigan)

2007

Four Photographers, Barbara Crawford Gallery, Philadelphia, Pa (Curated by Dan Brewer)

Cranbrook Film & Video Festival, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Mi

Graduate Degree Exhibition, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Mi

Shoot, The Anton Arts Center, Mount Clemens, Mi (Curated by Alison Wong)

Picture This, The Museum of New Art Detroit, Pontiac, Mi

2006

Loupe, Forum Gallery, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Mi

Keep It In the Family, Forum Gallery, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Mi

2005

One: RedDoorArt.org, The A-Space, Philadelphia, Pa

En Route, Forum Gallery, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Mi

The Life of Dan, Forum Gallery, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Mi

Smoke & Mirrors, Forum Gallery, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Mi

Intuition Box, Curator’s Office, Washington, D.C. (Curated by Tim Rollins – Tim Rollins & K.O.S.)

2004

Wild Bunch II, The White Box Annex, New York, Ny (Curated by Tim Rollins – Tim Rollins & K.O.S.)

Cake & Scallops, The Leonard Pearlstein Gallery, Philadelphia, Pa

Drexel University Degree Exhibition, Nexus Foundation for Today’s Art, Philadelphia, Pa

11th Annual Annx Exhibition, Annx Gallery, Philadelphia, Pa (Winning Piece – Photography, Curated by Ashley Peel Pinkham – Assistant Director, The Print Center, Philadelphia, Pa)

press

“…Can you give us some highlights? Unique moments that might standout?

Brookes Britcher and …sound in their work – Britcher by applying it through the visual use of cardboard”

Veronica Scarpellino (Curator / ‘A Beautiful Find’ / James Oliver Gallery)

[Sept 5th 2008 - Interview with DigPhilly]

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“Brookes Britcher’s work, the most conceptual in the show, ranges from photo collage and video to three-dimensional digital printing. While the ostensible subject of his artwork is the Grand Canyon, the pieces are really a response to and commentary on the history and evolution of American West photography, as well as human interaction with natural beauty. Britcher, a recent MFA graduate of the Cranbrook Academy of Art, received a grant to pursue his Grand Canyon study.”

[Nov 1st 7007 - Chestnut Hill Local]