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BLOG ROLL/HOME ARCHIVE
3.20.2013
12.11.2011
NEWS
I'VE UPDATED MY BLOG TO READ MORE LIKE A WEBSITE. PLEASE SEE TABS AT SIDE FOR NAVIGATION THROUGH DIFFERENT MEDIUMS. I WILL USE THE HOME PAGE TO POST NEWS, SUCH AS THIS EVENT THAT IS HAPPENING TODAY!
9.28.2011
NEW TIME-LAPSE VIDEO WITH LUKE CHMURA
I ATE A WHOLE CHICKEN (ALMOST). HERE IT IS IN TIME-LAPSE:
Jamey Braden: Eats a Chicken from Earplug Video on Vimeo.
6.13.2011
I need a studio
I did this on the floor and had to lock the cat up so he didn't get all ink paw-pawed.
4.24.2011
4.07.2011
ART FROM THE IPHONE: RECENTS
Here are a few things. First of all here is a tall, large yellow cone. I made it and it lives in our living room. I found the fabric and almost didn't buy it. Then the image of a tall golden cone appeared in my brain and I had to buy it and I had to make the cone. The cone is a friend and people like to touch it. It is the perfect height to stand over it and let it nuzzle the dip between you nose and upper lip:
CONE
Next is the before and after for a poster I made for the Wet Paint DMM/Stephanie split 7". The first is the master, the second is the screened product modeled by Ian Judd:
POSTER
POSTER
And POSTER
And PHOTO
CONE
Next is the before and after for a poster I made for the Wet Paint DMM/Stephanie split 7". The first is the master, the second is the screened product modeled by Ian Judd:
POSTER
POSTER
And POSTER
And PHOTO
DRAWING/PAINTING
WORD SALAD 2011 ink and watercolor on paper Copyright-Jamey Braden
AMORPHOUS BLOB I LOVE YOU 2011, 11x14" ink and watercolor on paper Copyright-Jamey Braden
MOST POPULAR MOVIE AMONG DOOMED COLLEGE MEN 2011, 11x14" ink and watercolor on paper Copyright-Jamey Braden
SELF-HELP MANTRA#87 2011, 11x14" ink and watercolor on paper Copyright-Jamey Braden
UNTITLED 2011, 11x14" ink and watercolor on paper Copyright-Jamey Braden
DIAMOND DAZE 2011, 11x14" ink and watercolor on paper Copyright-Jamey Braden
PSYCHIC LIGHTBULB 2011, 11x14" ink and watercolor on paper Copyright-Jamey Braden
PSYCHIC PLANES PYRAMID 2011, 11x14" ink and watercolor on paper Copyright-Jamey Braden
SEEING SOMETHING SEPARATE 2011, 11x14" ink and watercolor on paper Copyright-Jamey Braden
SAD HAIRCUT 2009, 14x17" ink and watercolor on paper Copyright-Jamey Braden
STAMP FRENZY 2009, 14x17" ink and watercolor on paper Copyright-Jamey Braden
SIMPLE TASK TERROR 2009, 14x17" ink and watercolor on paper Copyright-Jamey Braden
COMING AROUND 2009, 14x17" ink and watercolor on paper Copyright-Jamey Braden
IN THIS THOUGHTFUL REPOSE 2009, 11x17" ink and watercolor on paper Copyright-Jamey Braden
ANAGRAM PHILANDERER 2010, 11x14" ink and watercolor on paper Copyright-Jamey Braden
MORNING GLORY 2009, 17x11" ink and watercolor on paper Copyright-Jamey Braden
REPEATER HEAD WHATEVER 2009, 11x14" ink and watercolor on paper Copyright-Jamey Braden
COLOR PAIR 2009, 11x14" ink and watercolor on paper Copyright-Jamey Braden
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| WORD SALAD 2011 ink and watercolor on paper Copyright-Jamey Braden |
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| AMORPHOUS BLOB I LOVE YOU 2011, 11x14" ink and watercolor on paper Copyright-Jamey Braden |
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| MOST POPULAR MOVIE AMONG DOOMED COLLEGE MEN 2011, 11x14" ink and watercolor on paper Copyright-Jamey Braden |
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| SELF-HELP MANTRA#87 2011, 11x14" ink and watercolor on paper Copyright-Jamey Braden |
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| UNTITLED 2011, 11x14" ink and watercolor on paper Copyright-Jamey Braden |
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| DIAMOND DAZE 2011, 11x14" ink and watercolor on paper Copyright-Jamey Braden |
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| PSYCHIC LIGHTBULB 2011, 11x14" ink and watercolor on paper Copyright-Jamey Braden |
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| PSYCHIC PLANES PYRAMID 2011, 11x14" ink and watercolor on paper Copyright-Jamey Braden |
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| SEEING SOMETHING SEPARATE 2011, 11x14" ink and watercolor on paper Copyright-Jamey Braden |
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| SAD HAIRCUT 2009, 14x17" ink and watercolor on paper Copyright-Jamey Braden |
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| STAMP FRENZY 2009, 14x17" ink and watercolor on paper Copyright-Jamey Braden |
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| SIMPLE TASK TERROR 2009, 14x17" ink and watercolor on paper Copyright-Jamey Braden |
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| COMING AROUND 2009, 14x17" ink and watercolor on paper Copyright-Jamey Braden |
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| IN THIS THOUGHTFUL REPOSE 2009, 11x17" ink and watercolor on paper Copyright-Jamey Braden |
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| ANAGRAM PHILANDERER 2010, 11x14" ink and watercolor on paper Copyright-Jamey Braden |
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| MORNING GLORY 2009, 17x11" ink and watercolor on paper Copyright-Jamey Braden |
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| REPEATER HEAD WHATEVER 2009, 11x14" ink and watercolor on paper Copyright-Jamey Braden |
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| COLOR PAIR 2009, 11x14" ink and watercolor on paper Copyright-Jamey Braden |
SCULPTURE/3D PAGE ARCHIVE
CONE apprx 36"x12" fiber 2011 copyright-Jamey Braden
DEVIL'S TOWER PORTRAIT IN BLUE apprx 4"x5" crepe paper, watercolor, ink 2011 copyright-Jamey Braden
DEVIL'S TOWER PORTRAIT IN PINK apprx 3"x6" crepe paper, ink 2011 copyright-Jamey Braden
LIL' BUDDY appx 3"x6" fiber, feathers 2011 copyright-Jamey Braden
CARL SAGAN'S SLEEPING BAG appx 30"x"48 fiber 2008 copyright-Jamey Braden
PRIMP 24"x30" pain, fiber, found objects 2008 copyright-Jamey Braden
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| CONE apprx 36"x12" fiber 2011 copyright-Jamey Braden |
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| DEVIL'S TOWER PORTRAIT IN BLUE apprx 4"x5" crepe paper, watercolor, ink 2011 copyright-Jamey Braden |
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| DEVIL'S TOWER PORTRAIT IN PINK apprx 3"x6" crepe paper, ink 2011 copyright-Jamey Braden |
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| LIL' BUDDY appx 3"x6" fiber, feathers 2011 copyright-Jamey Braden |
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| CARL SAGAN'S SLEEPING BAG appx 30"x"48 fiber 2008 copyright-Jamey Braden |
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| PRIMP 24"x30" pain, fiber, found objects 2008 copyright-Jamey Braden |
BLOG ROLL/HOME ARCHIVE, 2010 AND EARLIER
11.20.2010
4.12.2009
ATTENTION SEEKING ATTENTION
Wow,
I logged int Etsy for the first time in hecka months and had a letter from a staffer with a note saing I was featured on the blog! Pretty exciting!
>>>> Etsy's Blog Spotlight <<<<
I also have work up at Crawl Space Gallery in a show called Call and Response. It was curated by Jeffry Mitchell and is rather psychedelic this is Mitchell's statement about the show:
I also have work up at Crawl Space Gallery in a show called Call and Response. It was curated by Jeffry Mitchell and is rather psychedelic this is Mitchell's statement about the show:
"A feather, a skull, the moon and stars, a man (?) and half a lady, crystals and sequins and the grandchildren of Piero Manzoni and Allan Kaprow. There’s something about magic, Hippie magic, and the way the LOVE CHILDREN freed them selves from the cross and sought spiritual expression through ancient forms other than the Christian one that resonates through this show for me. It’s very much my story, and the story I look for. It’s the story that I can’t help but see and although I claim that each pair of works in this show found each other on their own, the instant I see these works I bring stories to each of them, helplessly, naturally."
Needless to say, I like the way this man thinks! The show is up until the 26th of April.
There are a couple of pretty positive reviews of the show in the Seattle Times and on Regina Hackett'sblog where she made a mysterious comment about my work:
"Who dares put scraps together at this late date? Only someone who deeply loves them. Jamey Braden's title makes her case."
"Who dares put scraps together at this late date? Only someone who deeply loves them. Jamey Braden's title makes her case."
I'll take it! It's true, I love the fuck out of scraps and all things scrappy-dogs, people, books, table, MAKE IT FAST AND MAKE IT SCRAPPY we all have a lot of living to do.
I got an old Emac of Ebay (PS my home phone number equals EBA-YDAY) and when I play music oniTunes, the screens quivers ever-so-slightly to the beat.
I've been tipped off by a friend that there is a store in Portland called Stand Up Comedy.
Here are two newish artworks but, alas, I think they aren't SCRAPPY enough and I shall burn them and consume them in my morning porridge. They were (maybe not) fun while they lasted!
2.27.2009
WINTER'S LAST BLAST
I thought about making another blog, just devoted to drivel, thoughts, random images, what I'm working on in process, etc, but then I realized why not just put it up here? EVERYONE DESERVES A LITTLE DRIVEL NOW AND THEN. But then I was also excited because I thought I might call itTubeShapedBubes. Now I just have a new band name idea to add to the list of:
Foods
Jazzm
The Baby Jesusand the like. Anyway, in newsworthyness I just found out about some exciting personal-art-inertia in the shape of attention of different forms. First of all I got another Poster of the Week in the Stranger. Funnily (funnily?) the tradition of anonymity has been kept--for the last one, my name was lost/misplaced and for this one, it was chosen from the street with no name but the writer recognized the work and threw my name up for the following week here
About this poster with this write-up
I will get a proper scan one day. It says "forget about your bare cupboards in the company of friends" I was out of town but I wish I could of gone to that show, what a line-up!
Secondly, in attention-getting news about attention-getting, I found out a piece of mine was chosen for the Crawl Space Centennial! It was curated by Jeffrey Mitchell who makes cool monochromatic cluster-y ceramic sculpture and other things:
So that's exciting! I haven't had a show since the Magickal Spectrum and I just got a rejection from Gallery 4 Culture, so I've been a bit rejuiced especially when combined with the exciting news of being mentioned in an article by Jen Graves in ARCADE .
The issue is about the Art of Waste and looks great! I can't wait to get my hands on a copy. The feature editor is Abigail Guay who is also the Exhibition Director at Open Satellite in Bellevue. I've been meaning to go there forever! She was also the Visual Arts Intern at the Stranger before me and came to my house to train me on database stuff. Super nice lady! The article mentions these babies:
I've also been into wood-burning. Moving has disrupted this process but I hope to get into full-swing again soon once the novelty of making curtains has worn off (you think I'm joking.)
Here's the wood-burned piece that was on Magickal Spectrum followed by the waxy pieces that inspired it:
Are we done yet? Yes, for now. Oh, and PS, it's DAMN cold out.
Foods
Jazzm
The Baby Jesusand the like. Anyway, in newsworthyness I just found out about some exciting personal-art-inertia in the shape of attention of different forms. First of all I got another Poster of the Week in the Stranger. Funnily (funnily?) the tradition of anonymity has been kept--for the last one, my name was lost/misplaced and for this one, it was chosen from the street with no name but the writer recognized the work and threw my name up for the following week here
About this poster with this write-up
I will get a proper scan one day. It says "forget about your bare cupboards in the company of friends" I was out of town but I wish I could of gone to that show, what a line-up!
Secondly, in attention-getting news about attention-getting, I found out a piece of mine was chosen for the Crawl Space Centennial! It was curated by Jeffrey Mitchell who makes cool monochromatic cluster-y ceramic sculpture and other things:
So that's exciting! I haven't had a show since the Magickal Spectrum and I just got a rejection from Gallery 4 Culture, so I've been a bit rejuiced especially when combined with the exciting news of being mentioned in an article by Jen Graves in ARCADE .
The issue is about the Art of Waste and looks great! I can't wait to get my hands on a copy. The feature editor is Abigail Guay who is also the Exhibition Director at Open Satellite in Bellevue. I've been meaning to go there forever! She was also the Visual Arts Intern at the Stranger before me and came to my house to train me on database stuff. Super nice lady! The article mentions these babies:
I've also been into wood-burning. Moving has disrupted this process but I hope to get into full-swing again soon once the novelty of making curtains has worn off (you think I'm joking.)
Here's the wood-burned piece that was on Magickal Spectrum followed by the waxy pieces that inspired it:
Are we done yet? Yes, for now. Oh, and PS, it's DAMN cold out.
9.14.2008
SHOW AT ZEITGIEST IN OCTOBER
I'm pleased to be preparing at a distant for a show at Zeitgeist Coffee in Pioneer Square opening October7th. The College drawings will be in this show as well as some kind of free-association wordy type of new watercolors. It's call Educational Crap-Happy and is subtitled "Drawings as Confused Intimate Learning" mostly because I constantly think about going to all kinds of school all the time and I'm confused as to what I'm doing all the time so I guess drawing is a way of just doing instead of figuring where the act of doing actual does figure and that to me is confused intimate learning.
POSTER OF THE WEEK
My flyer for the Japanther show was chosen for Poster of the Week for Sept13 but my name is not credited! Here is the lucky poster. Please email me if you would like to commission me for a flyer!
6.07.2008
RECENT DRAWINGS
Here are some recent drawings, friends.
These as well other pieces are up at the McLeod Residence at
2209 2nd Ave in Belltown until July 27th 2008. Take a look!
PROJECTS ARCHIVE
UMM...WHAT ARE YOU DOING?
is a semi-regular salon/variety night of non-catagorical performance provided by artists, performers, and anyone who wants to get up and get weird. The first one happened December 11th, 2011. The next one will happen in the spring of 2012. If you are a Pacific Northwest Artist, or will be visiting us sometimes soon and are interested in participating, please email me or drop a note in the comments section here.
BEDROOM CHOREOGRAPHY...LIVE!
I'm currently working on a project encouraging and promoting the freedom and celebration of movement for untrained dancers. Think bedroom choreography, hobbyist dance routines, free-movments circles, and improvisational momentum all coming together for a night to be showcased and celebrated at a local or outdoor space. Contact or comment if this sounds like something you want to be a part of! UPDATE: BCL will have it's first showcase March 31st. There is room for YOU so get a hold of me!!
is a semi-regular salon/variety night of non-catagorical performance provided by artists, performers, and anyone who wants to get up and get weird. The first one happened December 11th, 2011. The next one will happen in the spring of 2012. If you are a Pacific Northwest Artist, or will be visiting us sometimes soon and are interested in participating, please email me or drop a note in the comments section here.
BEDROOM CHOREOGRAPHY...LIVE!
I'm currently working on a project encouraging and promoting the freedom and celebration of movement for untrained dancers. Think bedroom choreography, hobbyist dance routines, free-movments circles, and improvisational momentum all coming together for a night to be showcased and celebrated at a local or outdoor space. Contact or comment if this sounds like something you want to be a part of! UPDATE: BCL will have it's first showcase March 31st. There is room for YOU so get a hold of me!!
BIO ARCHIVE
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.
