Works
1999 – Current
La Somme de
L'Oxygéne Dans une
Cabine Téléphonique
2008
Just Taking the
Building To Its Logical
Conclusion
2008
The Adventures of
Darius and Downey
as Told To Ed Zipco
2008
House of Cards III
2007
Our Sculpture
Project Münster
2007
Animals That Crossed
2007 – Current
It's The Thought
That Counts
2007
Taking a Block for a
Walk Around the Block
2007
Kilroy Receding
My Hairline
2007
Dying on the Shitter Is
the New Black
2007
Jeff Koons Meets
Brad Downey
2006
Negative Space Saves
the Day
2006
Middle East, Future Site
for Public Sculpture
2006
Street Eats, Von
Brooklyn Nach Berlin
2005
Unsere Arbeit Macht
Uns Frei
2005
The Harder They Come,
the Harder They Fall
2005
Just Another Brick
in the Wall
2005
Dont Worry About That
Shit Babe
2005
Endless Column
in Context
2005
American Paranoia,
New Sub-Vehicle
Technology
2004
Darius and Downey
in Actual Size Typo
2003
A Lady Dreams
of Meeting a Pole
2003
Holler Back &
I Hear You Bro
2003
Honk-If You Love Graffiti
2003
Mars Formation, Future
Site for Public Art
2003
This Is Where Royal
Vandalism Happened
2003
Self Portrait at Nineteen
1999
Madonna & Child, 2004
London, England
3 Years and Counting
Metal, plastic, paint
Brad Downey’s oddly touching Madonna and Child, for which he added a baby speed-limit sign alongside a lone “parent” sign, defies our expectations about the functionality of “street furniture”. Already three years old at the time of writing, the installation’s resilience stands, as its biblical title ironically implies, as a protective symbol for all the unloved and defunct street furniture that governments are so keen to put up, but not remove. And in the very intimacy of the title, the piece challenges the euphemistic coziness and domesticity that the term street furniture suggests, all the while that these structures are designed to deter any loitering, or worse, corrode any sense of home for the homeless. – Jennifer Thatcher |