Wednesday, February 22, 2023

Filmmaker Garrett Bradley on creating work for ‘a more transparent, loving and just world’


Bradley’s work crosses over into the realm of fine art as well. She was the subject of a solo museum exhibition titled “Garrett Bradley: American Rhapsody” in 2019-2020 at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, where her films and multi-channel videos were shown. The exhibition traveled to Los Angeles, where it was on view at The Geffen Contemporary at the Museum of Contemporary Art from December 2022 through earlier this month.

Her work is in the permanent collections of The New Orleans Museum of Art, The Studio Museum in Harlem and The Museum of Modern Art, among others.

For her contribution to Ad Age’s Honoring Creative Excellence package, Bradley offers the following brief statement about making work as “a call and response”—and also answers a few of our questions about inspiration:

Every project that I have had the privilege of making or working on has felt, in some way or another, like a call and response. The work being an attempt at a dialogue, an offering, a window. The great Bill T. Jones talks about the definition of art as being an attempt at making something worthy of an issue’s complexity. I’d like to think of myself as being committed to that same pursuit—committed, as Jones says, to the act of participating in a world of ideas and, in my mind, to the end of a more transparent, loving and just world.



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