BRADLEY CASTELLANOSCrossing the Wilds

Bradley Castellanos Crossing the Wilds

May 30 – June 29, 2013

RYAN LEE527 WEST 26TH STREET

NEW YORK, NY 10001

212 397 0742

www.RYANLEEGALLERY.COM

ARTIST STATEMENT

Crossing The Wilds explores the search for meaning and understanding within the landscape. The paintings describe a wilderness full of moods, one that can be

dark and desolate while also light and dense. They are places of discovery, exhilaration, and awe, both real and unreal. The wilds are a mysterious frontier, an area

of escape.

In densely wooded forests, stories are told under the darkness of night while figures search the landscape, others wait in hunting blinds. They contemplate the

bottomless depths of the ocean from its shore. The energies, weather, and sensations of the earth guide them. Apparitions are encountered in transformative states

of illumination and convey the possibility of transcendence to a higher state of being; they are epiphanies. The five Ruminations represent the elevation of the spirit

figure out of the landscape to an interior space. They illustrate an arrival at a greater understanding.

I am very interested in layering. There are layers of meaning in the imagery and the paintings are composed of material layers. I see the works as different locations on

a map that are connected by a narrative, while they are also portraits of an individual’s interior landscape. The paintings are built, woven together with intricately cut

photographs, paint, and resin. Through this process they depart from traditional landscape painting and become the product of an intense hermetic studio practice.

The pieces are not the depiction of an actual place; the initial photograph is a departure point to an imagined world achieved through manipulation, cutting, and

painting.

-Bradley T. Castellanos

Guide, 2013, Oil, acrylic, and photo collage on panel, 60” x 48”

Blind, 2013, Oil, acrylic, and photo collage on panel, 36” x 27”

The Depths, 2013, Oil, acrylic, and photo collage on panel, 48” x 72.5”

Moonwalk Stories, 2013, Oil, acrylic, and photo collage on panel, 36” x 27”

Searching the Sheraton, 2013, Oil, acrylic, and photo collage on two panels, 72” x 96”

Stump, 2013, Oil, acrylic, and photo collage on panel, 48” x 36”

Gilgo, 2012, Oil, acrylic, and photo collage on panel, 18” x 24”

Sugar Swamp, 2013, Oil, acrylic, and photo collage on panel, 60” x 48”

Royal Oak, 2013, Oil, acrylic, photo collage, and resin on panel, 24” x 36”

Rumination I - V, 2013, Oil, acrylic, photo collage, and resin on panel, 24” x 24” (each)

Bradley Castellanosb. 1974, Hartford, CT Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY Education 2006 MFA, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY 1998 BA, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY

Solo Exhibitions 2013 Crossing the Wilds, RYAN LEE, New York, NY 2011 Volta New York, New York, NY 2010 North Woods, Marx & Zavattero, San Francisco, CA 2009 The Divide, Caren Golden Fine Art, New York, NY 2008 Hollow Ground and False Guidance, Mogadishni Gallery, Aarhus, Denmark 2006 Pulse Art Fair, Miami, FL Deadland, Caren Golden Fine Art, New York, NY Selected Group Exhibitions 2013 Paper Landscapes, curated by Lisa Frieman, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN 2011 10-Year Anniversary Exhibition, Marx & Zavattero, San Francisco, CA Alumni Invitational 3, curated by Ian Berry, Tang Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY 2010 Lives of the Hudson, curated by Ian Berry, Tang Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY 2008 Future Tense: Reshaping the Landscape, curated by Dede Young, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY Nightmares and Dreamscapes, curated by Ombretta Agro, Alberto Peola, Torino, Italy 2007 25th Anniversary Next Wave Festival, curated by Dan Cameron, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY Ominous Atmosphere, Heather Marx, San Francisco, CA Modeling the Photographic: The End(s) of Photography curated by Saul Ostrow, 2007 Mc Donough Museum of Art, Youngstown, OH Two-person exhibition with Nicola Lopez, ARCO, Madrid, Spain 2006 New York Contemporary: Art Times Squared, Hangart-7/Basis Wien, curated by Dan Cameron, Salzburg, Austria Montezuma’s Revenge, Nicole Klagsburn, New York, NY A Delicate Arrangement, curated by Dan Cameron, David Zwirner, New York, NY The New Collage, Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, NY Foyer Installation, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Museum of Modern Art, Long Island City, NY Badittude, curated by Bob Nickas, Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY 2004 Contemporary Cuban Art NY, Bill Maynes Gallery, New York, NY 2002 Works on Paper, Sono Gallery, New York, NY Imagination, Mark Miller Gallery, New York, NY 2001 Art Now, Mark Miller Gallery, New York, NY

Bibliography “Mary Ryan Gallery at the 2012 Armory Show,” Eyes In Magazine, March 2012 (illus) “March Art-Fair Madness in NYC,” artnet.com, March 2012 (illus) Pierson, Stephen, Canteen, Issue 7, 2011, p. 20 (illus) Berry, Ian, “Video: Artist Interview Bradley Castellanos on Nature vs. Civilization,” April 4, 2011. DeWoody, Kyle & Manish Vora, “Armory Week Routes from Kyle and Manish,” Artlog Magazine, February 28, 2011. Lasarow, Bill, “The Northwest’s Top Ten Exhibition Picks for 2010.” The Huffington Post. December 31, 2010. Kluth, Mary Anne, “Best of: Mary Anne Kluth,” Art Practical, September 2010 Behm-Steinberg, Hugh, Eleven Eleven, Issue 9, 2010, cover; p.129 (illus) Berry, Ian and Tom Lewis, “Lives of the Hudson,” exhibition catalog, 2010, p.159 (illus) Cheng, DeWitt, “Bradley Castellanos at Marx & Zavattero,” Visual Art Source, March 2010 Nataraj, Nirmala, “North Woods: Painter blends bucolic, petrified for colorful blast of commentary on exploitation,” San Francisco Chronicle (96 Hours section), February 2010, p. 13 Leaverton, Michael, “Life After People,” SF Weekly (Night & Day section), February 2010, p. 19 “Pharaonic Camp” Harper’s Magazine, December 2009, p. 17 (illus) Pellegrino, Dia, “True and False in Photography: The Evolution of a Technique in Post-Production.” Current.com, August 31, 2009 Cuevas, Celina Nogueras, “En Portada. . . Bradley Castellanos,” Entorno Magazine, August 2009, cover; p. 46-47 (illus) Glaser, Brian, “Divvied Up,” Visual Arts Briefs, March 20, 2009 Di Bella, Giuseppe, “La Sospettabile Apparenza,” Con-Fine Magazine, March 2009, cover; pp 22-25, (illus) Young, Dede, interviewed for the “Future Tense: Reshaping the Landscape,” video catalog, May 10, 2008 Gambari, Olga, “Incubi E Sogni Di Sette Giovani Nella Metropoli,” La Republica, February 13, 2008 Riba, Stefano, “Nightmares and Dreamscape,” ARTKEY Magazine/www.tenemedia.net, February 11, 2008 L.PA, “Realta, Sogni E Incubi Dalla “Grande Mela,”” La Stampa, TorinoSette, February 8, 2008 N414, Arte, “I Fantastici Sette. Da New York,” February 2008 Feinstein, Lea, “Ominous Atmosphere,” ARTnews, January 2008 ARTNOTES, ARCO, Madrid, Spain, 2007, p.4, (illus.) Pollack, Barbara, Interviewed live with Billy Sullivan on WPS1/90.5 WVUM at the Art Basel Art Positions Café, December 6, 2006 Farkas, Summers, “Pick Up Artists, Beth Rudin DeWoody,” Gotham, September 2006, p. 186, p. 187 (illus.) Cameron, Dan, HANGART-7 Air & Art, “New York Contemporary: Art Times Squared,” exhibition catalog, 2006, pp 20–29, (illus) Puri, Madhu, “Art Times Squared: Bradley Castellanos,” Salzberger Nachrichten, Ed. 4, July 2006, pp. 1 - 12, (illus.) Reddeker, Lioba, Interviewed on Vernissage TV, posted August 1, 2006 Zoubok, Pavel, The New Collage, 2006, p. 14, (illus.)

Awards and Residencies 2012 The Hermitage Artist Retreat 2006 SVA Alumni Scholarship

Lectures and Presentations 2012 Slide presentation and discussion, Ringling College of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL 2011 Slide presentation and Dunkerly dialog moderated by Ian Berry, Tang Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY 2006 Studio visit and discussion with St. Olaf College senior art students, artist studio, Brooklyn, NY