Brady, Alison

Alison Brady

American, (born 1979-)

About the Artist

Alison Brady is from Cleveland but lives and works in New York. She cleverly uses familiar domestic scenes as backgrounds for her staged photographs or herself, her body, often contorted or posed in unexpected ways. Brady will also introduce strange objects and materials like food, tennis balls to surprise, shock, delight and in the end comment on "the female predicament" (Roberta Smith, New York Times Review).  To defy or upend the male gaze in one photograph she shows herself with legs exposed but her legs are covered in mortadella -yes the lunch meat!  The net effect is that viewers will look closely at her legs only to be disgusted, or amazed, or think "this is weird," but it is no longer a predictably promiscuous scene. We are lucky to have found images of Brady's in the West Collection, where form many years they were shown in our corporate settings, and objected to, questioned, and eventually ended up moving into our Hot Hall Gallery for controversial works. 

Works

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