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Luggage, 2024, epoxy, paint, electronic components, water

Included in “Half Life” @makcenter with @katrinhornek. On view Saturdays and Sundays until December 8th.

These new works continue my series of birdbaths: found objects re-rendered in sculptural materials, turned into functional birdbaths. The water slowly bubbles and fills the basin, before slowly draining back into the sculpture. A funny offering to the local birds around the open-air gallery.

These works were inspired by my neighborhood after a rare rainy day, but also by Darwin’s theory of the “warm little pond.” Darwin theorized that the origin of life happened somewhere in a landlocked environment where small, warm ponds continually filled with rain water and then evaporated. A churning, primordial soup mixing the complex molecules that were the building blocks of life. taken in Mak Center Mackey House by @brodyalbert

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Elysium (Birdfeeder), 2024, epoxy clay, PLA, primer paint with black thistle and sunflower seeds.

The fossil was found in 1931 on Flat Top Hill in Lincoln Heights, when a plumber was digging a trench to plant an orchard in his backyard. It belonged to a small baleen whale from the time that Los Angeles was under an ocean. The species was named “Mixocetus Elysius” after nearby Elysian Park.

The sculpture turns the whale skull into a birdfeeder, offering black thistle and sunflower seeds to the local House finch population.

Currently on view @makcenter “Half-Life” with @katrinhornek curated by @8eymour

Photos by @joshschaedel taken in Mak Center Mackey House by @brodyalbert

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Elysium (Birdfeeder), 2024, epoxy clay, PLA, primer, paint, with black thistle and sunflower seeds.

Part of “Half-Life” with @katrinhornek currently on view @makcenter

The sculpture takes its form from the “Lincoln Heights Whale,” a fossilized whale skull that was found a few blocks from my house. The skull belonged to an extinct species that existed ~11 million years ago, when Los Angeles was under an ocean.

The skull was reconstructed with the assistance of a paleontologist and rendered at 3/4 scale. A recess in the upper jaw was filled with birdseed and positioned next to the open-air balcony of the gallery, turning the skull into a functioning bird feeder.

After a life under the ocean, and 11 million years underground, the skull is put into contact with living birds flitting around Los Angeles’ skies.

📸 by @joshschaedel so happy to finally get some good pics of the show!! 🙏 taken in Mak Center Mackey House by @brodyalbert

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Birdbath, 2024
Painted epoxy, electronic components, water

The birdbath sculptures are cast in epoxy and then carefully hand-painted. Each sculpture contains a custom pump that slowly fills and drains the pool of water from the indentation on top of the piece. I like what @soldes.la said: “In Brody’s work discarded objects often take new functionalities. Here the deflated basketballs double as birdbaths. They are a silent invitation to the birds that surround the gallery.”

Huge thank you to @auzal for technical support/assistance/genius 🙏

Part of Shapes from the Extramundane with @saraellenfowler @soldes.la on view until, July 20th. Last day is tomorrow from 1-5PM. 🧡 by @brodyalbert

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Shapes from the Extramundane @soldes.la with @saraellenfowler

Birdbath, 2024
Painted-epoxy, electronic components, water

On view until July 20th

📸 @ofphotostudio by @brodyalbert

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Hold the horizon as a coil in your mind.

@soldes.la @saraellenfowler

Shapes from the Extramundane on view until July 20. Open today from 1-5! by @brodyalbert

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Koan, 2024
polymer gypsum, wood, epoxy resin, paint, sand

These owl decoys are ubiquitous in my neighborhood. Seems like one on top of every house. It’s a funny kind of object, meant to be seen by animals, not humans. Similar to a scarecrow, or a duck decoy, or even a fishing lure — trompe-l’oeil for critters. This sculpture recasts the decoy so it’s permanently looking at itself. Which for me, creates a kind of philosophical riddle.

Part of Shapes from the Extramundane with @saraellenfowler @soldes.la on view until July 20.

Gallery hours this Saturday! 1-5pm.

📸 by @ofphotostudio by @brodyalbert

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Birdbath, 2024
Painted epoxy, electronic components, water

Part of “Shapes from the Extramundane” with @saraellenfowler @soldes.la

The gallery will be open from 3-7PM today 🧁 by @brodyalbert

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I am thrilled to announce my show with @saraellenfowler at @soldes.la opening this Saturday, June 22nd. Reception from 5-8PM.

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Soldes is pleased to present “Shapes from the Extramundane,” a collaborative exhibition between artist Brody Albert and poet Sara Ellen Fowler. Their exhibition features sculpture and site-specific poetry that explore the extramundane, the generative tension between the everyday and the out-of-this-world.

In poetic theory, a “nonce form” is a poetic form invented for a single purpose or occasion. Shapes from the Extramundane proposes an exhibition as a nonce form. The interactions between site, sculpture, and language, here, are as occasional as a summer garden.

Here’s the invitation:
Meander near shapes and the forces that shape them.
Read in public.
Text someone about it by @brodyalbert

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Nice install shot from Virtual Volume @soldes.la Alongside Lin May Saeed and @verum_factum. Curated by @marbleindex by @brodyalbert

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3 years ago

Nice review for @autremagazine by @beezie_k about my show Empty, Except for the Ghost @hunter_shaw_fine_art . Now on its final week! taken in Hunter Shaw Fine Art by @brodyalbert

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From my show Empty, Except for the Ghost @hunter_shaw_fine_art

Graybar Motel, 2023
Cast polymer gypsum, steel hardware

“There’s an abandoned building near a busy bus stop in Lincoln Heights. Across the street is an empty lot, sometimes used for pop-up events, craft fairs, haunted houses, and other temporary functions. The lot is littered with palm-sized rocks, perfect for throwing. Over the years, passersby, perhaps in a moment of anger, or rebellion, or boredom, have chucked these perfect rocks at the windows of the building. These breakages, mingled with a patina of disuse, have coalesced into an indexical composition of collective mark-making.” –Hunter Shaw

The exhibition is on view until December 17th.

💣 by @brodyalbert

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