C.V.
JAMEY BRADEN
B. 1983, Pasco, Washington
Education
2008 Artist Trust EDGE professional Development Program
2006 Seattle Central Community College, Graphic Design
2005 The Evergreen State College, Media Studies
2005 Western Washington University, B.A. Mixed Media Art
Exhibition and Events Record:
2012
°Upcoming: Free and Strange Sounds and Feelings, Bad for Jazz Series, Gallery 1412, Seattle, WA. Performance with Dan Enders.
°Upcoming: Bedroom Choreography Comes Alive, Magma Fest, Black Lodge, Seattle, WA. Solo performance and organization of untrained dancer showcase.
2011
°UMM...WHAT ARE YOU DOING?, performer and founder/coordinator, Cairo, Seattle
°Upcoming: Free and Strange Sounds and Feelings, Bad for Jazz Series, Gallery 1412, Seattle, WA. Performance with Dan Enders.
°Upcoming: Bedroom Choreography Comes Alive, Magma Fest, Black Lodge, Seattle, WA. Solo performance and organization of untrained dancer showcase.
2011
°UMM...WHAT ARE YOU DOING?, performer and founder/coordinator, Cairo, Seattle
°Bad Yoga, performance on Seattle Light Rail train for HollowEarth Radio's Magma Festival,
Seattle
2010
Seattle
2010
°This Ballet is Making You Smarter and More Attractive, performance, Olympia Film Festival
°Sense and Sensibility, Vera Project, Seattle
2009
°Crawl Space Centennial, Crawl Space Gallery, Seattle curated by Jeffry Mitchell
°Magick Spectrum, Twenty20, Seattle
°The Gift Cycle, No Space Gallery, Seattle
°Taxonomy of Thanks, solo show, McLeod Residence, Seattle
°Free For All Helm Gallery, Tacoma,
°Annual Miniature Art Extravaganza Ghost Gallery at SOLO, Seattle
°Collection/Infection, solo show, Project Project, Seattle
°Even the Id is Anxious, two-person show, Lux Collective, Seattle
2007
°a bell is a cup until it is struck, PUNCH Gallery, Seattle, curated by Eric Fredericksen
°Seattle Central Student Invitational, SCCC, Seattle
2006
°Vague Head Skeletons, solo show, Gallery 1412, Seattle
2005
°Internally Decorated, solo show, The Kipple Gallery, Bellingham
°Fruits, Orange, Olympia, a Learning to Love You More assignment exhibition( http://www.learningtoloveyoumore.com/reports/44/zicmuse_mccloud.php)
2004
°The Slow Show to China, Senior Exhibit VU Gallery, Bellingham
°Spring Showcase, B Gallery, Bellingham, Juried by Barbara Sternberger
°The Wrong Show, B Gallery, Bellingham
°Doodle, B Gallery Bellingham
Bibliography:
°RUBBISH! Art and the Plastic Bag, Jen Gaves, ARCADE online, winter 2009
°Love Children Free Themselves from the Cross, Regina Hackett, Another Bouncing Ball for ARTSJOURNAL.com
°Poster of the Week, Aaron Edge, The Stranger, March 2009and September 2008
°Optimism featured for the cover of Rivet Magazine’s last issue, winter 2008
°A Patchwork Life: the Art of Jamey Braden, Andrea Heimer, The Whatcom Independent, June 17-23, 2005, issue 82
Professional Experience
2008 Marketing Assistant, Pratt Fine Arts Center, Seattle
2007 Intern, Visual Arts, The Stranger, Seattle
Arts Intern, Rivet Magazine, Seattle
2005 Gallery Co-Coordinator, VU Gallery, Bellingham
ARTIST STATEMENT:
ARTIST STATEMENT:
I am an artist working in various mediums listed in the probable descending order of likelihood here:
Humor
Words
Paper
Internet
Ink
Watercolor
In a room full of people watching thinking what the fuck is this
Music stuff
Fiber
In an attempt to defend multi-disciplinary practice not only across visual art but all art forms, I’ll rephrase the famous proposition “The medium is the message,” into this: “The medium is part of the message.” What ever comes to my mind, I’ve learned to trust as interesting or something that needs to be expelled. I also believe in the beauty of chance and the mystical otherness that art in all forms can represent, where impulse is not a thing to be ignored or controlled. We live in a world where images and complex emotions from such images are processed, digested and acted upon in fragments of time. My work is probably about pop-culture and our place within it, how we navigate the absurdity of it all with a straight-face. But if I knew what my work was all about, I probably wouldn't have to make it. Although acting with deep intention through a single body of work can serve some well, it does not truthfully covey much of our modern experience with which I am primarily concerned. Therefore, my artistic expression is often conveyed through and depends upon using the form, which, at that moment, you know, just feels right.
