Broken Sculptures: Rethinking Dada in a Digital Age
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 line-work 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.
- Benton C Bainbridge, Founder
Selected Works from the Installation
Concept Sketch
Reclaimed Monitors from Erie Honda Dealer
Painting on top of Monitor - Prototyping
Wall electrical Installation
First Hang
Multiple HDMI Test with VJ Software
HDMI to VGA causes random glitches
Graphic work , translucent to video
Detail
Detail 2
Installation 1
Final
Opening
POV
Video Abstractions behind drawings
Close up crosshatch
Video Sectioning per VDMX
Crowd