Quarter Lever
Bradley Marshal
@
Open Gallery
507 Hagan St.
Nashville, TN 37216
Open Gallery is pleased to present Quarter Lever by Bradley Marshall, featuring new sculpture and video installation works that respond to questions surrounding the anthropomorphic and tools of bodily enhancement. The tiered installation studies the body as a site of discreet successes and failures and of various phenomenological hierarchies of form and function. The materials employed oscillate between modes of specificity, obscurity, and obsolescence.
A pneumatic pump and electromechanics aid in suspending pvc air wedge bladders, a crushed potato chip, and a photograph made by the artist’s paternal grandfather in between two sheets of clear acrylic through tension alone. Air is pumped in for an interval of time while a solenoid valve and pressure allows for a subsequent release, creating the visual effect of a lung. A chromed valve cover to a ‘57 Chevy is mounted at ground level, intricately locking into place around the left turnbuckle, a 4” screen is installed adjacently on the armature. The performer in the video, a former football player, allows his respiration to be articulated by the spinning of a fan mounted within a mouthguard that is manufactured and available for athletes today.
Quarter Lever, 2019-2020, silver gelatin photograph authored by artist's paternal grandfather, epoxied potato chip, air wedges, pvc tubing and connectors, acrylic, aftermarket valve cover for 1957 Chevrolet, screen (HD video 01:27" looped, no audio), electromechanics, machined hardware, turnbuckles, miscellaneous hardware, miscellaneous wiring and cordage, various epoxy and adhesive, dimensions variable
