FEATURED ARTIST: Bradford Kessler
Bradford Kessler's work features mundane objects intertwined with elegant amalgamations that are at once dark, unnerving, and playful. He seduces us into his psychotic anthropological studies with neotenous, mid-western aesthetics.
From 2005 to 2010 Kessler lived in various parts of Asia including Beijing, China where he was a studio assistant to the artist and activist Ai Weiwei. Kessler has taught and lectured at Parsons the New School for Design, School of Visual Arts, and Columbia University in New York. His works have exhibited at such venues as Electronic Arts Intermix, Anthology Film Archives, New York, and Art Basel Miami with Printed Matter, New York and Esther Schipper, Berlin. He is the founder of Prairie Fortress Press based in Lebanon, Kansas and his published works are distributed at Printed Matter, New York and Art Metropole, Toronto. He has had recent solo exhibitions with 247365 in New York and Welcome Screen in London.
Bradford Kessler, Mistletoe (3, 2, 1), 2014. Tennis ball gag harness, bracket mount. Courtesy 247365, New York.