FEED.art launches its 2025 season with a ground—and screen—breaking, site-specific installation by mixed media artist Brad Ford. The Broken Sculptures dance on a line between plastic and ethereal art, repurposing a large collection of donated flatscreen TVs as bas-relief digital paintings in a salon hanging. Ford’s hand shows in the pop-painterly animations and the altered TVs themselves. The artist extends animated paintings beyond the glowing screens with drawings splaying all over the TVs. Ford’s spidery linework is extended by rainbow web fractures in the displays—some formed by accident, others by intent.
Brad Ford’s ambitious new work is accompanied by a selection of earlier works, both digital and physical, installed throughout cafeGIANT: the newest project from FEED.art. cafeGIANT welcomes guests in Erie’s Downtown ARTs District to a cozy storefront coffee shop with a small stage. Performers are invited to sign up for 15 minute slots, playing to intimate house within the storefront, as well as passersby who can watch and listen from State Street through open windows and outdoor speakers. cafeGIANT will livestream all performances to extend performers’ reach to audiences around the world.
Brad Ford: Broken Sculpture opens Valentine’s Day, 2025. Join us on February 14th from 5 to 7 PM for the opening of this thought-provoking exhibition and the launch of cafeGIANT..
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