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KADAR BROCK: coming home

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4 SEPTEMBER - 25 OCTOBER 2025
  • New York, NY: Miles McEnery Gallery, “Kadar Brock: coming home,” 4 September - 25 October 2025. (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    New York, NY: Miles McEnery Gallery, “Kadar Brock: coming home,” 4 September - 25 October 2025. (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    New York, NY: Miles McEnery Gallery, “Kadar Brock: coming home,” 4 September - 25 October 2025. (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    New York, NY: Miles McEnery Gallery, “Kadar Brock: coming home,” 4 September - 25 October 2025. (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    New York, NY: Miles McEnery Gallery, “Kadar Brock: coming home,” 4 September - 25 October 2025. (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    New York, NY: Miles McEnery Gallery, “Kadar Brock: coming home,” 4 September - 25 October 2025. (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    New York, NY: Miles McEnery Gallery, “Kadar Brock: coming home,” 4 September - 25 October 2025. (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    New York, NY: Miles McEnery Gallery, “Kadar Brock: coming home,” 4 September - 25 October 2025. (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    New York, NY: Miles McEnery Gallery, “Kadar Brock: coming home,” 4 September - 25 October 2025. (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    New York, NY: Miles McEnery Gallery, “Kadar Brock: coming home,” 4 September - 25 October 2025. (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    New York, NY: Miles McEnery Gallery, “Kadar Brock: coming home,” 4 September - 25 October 2025. (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    New York, NY: Miles McEnery Gallery, “Kadar Brock: coming home,” 4 September - 25 October 2025. (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    New York, NY: Miles McEnery Gallery, “Kadar Brock: coming home,” 4 September - 25 October 2025. (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    New York, NY: Miles McEnery Gallery, “Kadar Brock: coming home,” 4 September - 25 October 2025. (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).

    New York, NY: Miles McEnery Gallery, “Kadar Brock: coming home,”
    4 September - 25 October 2025.

  • KADAR BROCK
    rains, prana is the movement's ashram, rosemead high, the mutual store, 2020 - 2024
    Oil on canvas
    48 x 72 inches
    121.9 x 182.9 cm
  • 'When Brock makes a painting, he first addresses the medium’s past. He starts by composing conventionally in oil paint. His...
    KADAR BROCK
    take a break, the movement is the beginning, 2023 - 2024
    Oil on canvas
    24 x 20 inches
    61 x 50.8 cm
    "When Brock makes a painting, he first addresses the medium’s past. He starts by composing conventionally in oil paint. His composition may be abstract, figurative, or something in-between. Then Brock scrapes down the surface with a razor blade, window scraper, or palette scraper, removing most of his work’s original referents and content, as he physically deconstructs what he has painted. This is a materialist approach evocative of painting’s putative future. As Robert Rauschenberg’s famous Erased De Kooning announced in 1953, no erasure is ever definitive, and what is retained is perhaps more important than what is removed."

    - Alex Bacon in "Kadar Brock and the Ruins of Painting"

  • Kadar Brock's studio, New York, NY, 2024.
  • KADAR BROCK
    coming home, looking for a way home, 2023 - 2025
    Oil on canvas
    72 x 60 inches
    182.9 x 152.4 cm
  • KADAR BROCK
    fantastic dreams, have your own day, 2023 - 2025
    Oil on canvas
    72 x 60 inches
    182.9 x 152.4 cm
  • KADAR BROCK
    in a special way, three mes, openness, 2020 - 2025
    Oil on canvas
    24 x 20 inches
    61 x 50.8 cm
  • it is here now, get back near it, soul flight (detail), 2021 - 2025.
    • KADAR BROCK initiation site, the you that is me, the mine at rains, utah, 2020 - 2025 Acrylic, oil, house paint, and spray paint on canvas 60 x 48 inches 152.4 x 121.9 cm
      KADAR BROCK
      initiation site, the you that is me, the mine at rains, utah, 2020 - 2025
      Acrylic, oil, house paint, and spray paint on canvas
      60 x 48 inches
      152.4 x 121.9 cm
    • KADAR BROCK it is here now, get back near it, soul flight, 2021 - 2025 Acrylic, house paint, oil, and spray paint on canvas 60 x 48 inches 152.4 x 121.9 cm
      KADAR BROCK
      it is here now, get back near it, soul flight, 2021 - 2025
      Acrylic, house paint, oil, and spray paint on canvas
      60 x 48 inches
      152.4 x 121.9 cm
  • "The finished paintings have become more formal, with Brock’s process activating a color-driven optical play that a fellow artist has cannily termed 'glitch pointillism.' This clever neologism sutures the familiar errors and breakdowns in contemporary digital technology to the technologically motivated painting techniques of the late nineteenth-century avant-garde. Both isolate the pixel or dot as their basic unit of imagistic information, and these constituent atoms become visible when the smooth reading of the content they are supposed to serve breaks down."

    - Alex Bacon in "Kadar Brock and the Ruins of Painting"

  • KADAR BROCK
    separate selves, 2023 - 2025
    Oil on canvas
    60 x 48 inches
    152.4 x 121.9 cm
  • KADAR BROCK
    something you're not, 2023 - 2025
    Oil on canvas
    60 x 48 inches
    152.4 x 121.9 cm
  • Kadar Brock's studio, New York, NY, 2024.
  • KADAR BROCK
    went underground, the heavenly two, mana physics, 2021 - 2025
    Oil on canvas
    40 x 30 inches
    101.6 x 76.2 cm
  • KADAR BROCK
    you can all love, 2017 - 2025
    Acrylic, flashe, house paint, oil, and spray paint on canvas
    72 x 96 inches
    182.9 x 243.8 cm
  • "With time, Brock has added (literal) layers and complexities to his process . . . rather than simply revealing the painting’s 'subconscious,' Brock now responds to it by going back into the work after sanding it, painting in and along fractures and fissures in the work’s surface and allowing the unpredictable idiosyncrasies his process reveals in the work to direct how it arrives at its final state."

    - Alex Bacon in "Kadar Brock and the Ruins of Painting"

  • KADAR BROCK
    you can always imagine, where we all began, light column, 2021 - 2025
    Oil on canvas
    40 x 30 inches
    101.6 x 76.2 cm
  • you can always imagine, where we all began, light column (detail), 2021 - 2025.
  • KADAR BROCK (b. 1980 in New York, NY) received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Cooper Union School of...
    Kadar Brock in his studio, New York, NY, 2024.

    KADAR BROCK (b. 1980 in New York, NY) received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Cooper Union School of Art in New York, NY.

     

    Brock has been the subject of recent solo and two person exhibitions at Gana Art Bogwang, Seoul, South Korea; Patron Gallery, Chicago, IL; Mother Gallery, Beacon, NY; Patron Projects, New York, NY; Vigo Gallery, London, United Kingdom; and Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels, Belgium.

     

    His work has been included in recent group exhibitions at CHART, New York, NY; Jane Lombard Gallery, New York, NY; Gana Art Nineone, Seoul, South Korea; Platform on View, Brooklyn, NY; Yeh Art Gallery, St. John’s University, Jamaica, NY; Baik + Khneysser, Los Angeles, CA; SUNNY, New York, NY; The Catskills, New York, NY; Studio E, Seattle, WA; Project Art Distribution Retrospective, New York, NY, and elsewhere.

     

    Brock has completed residencies at the Hayama Artist Residency, Hayama, Japan; Fountainhead Residency, Miami, FL; CCA Andratx, Andratx, Mallorca, Spain; The Macedonia Institute, Chatham, NY; and Palazzo Monti, Brescia, Italy.

     

    Brock lives and works in New York, NY.

    • KADAR BROCK rains, prana is the movement's ashram, rosemead high, the mutual store, 2020 - 2024 Oil on canvas 48 x 72 inches 121.9 x 182.9 cm
      KADAR BROCK
      rains, prana is the movement's ashram, rosemead high, the mutual store, 2020 - 2024
      Oil on canvas
      48 x 72 inches
      121.9 x 182.9 cm
    • KADAR BROCK take a break, the movement is the beginning, 2023 - 2024 Oil on canvas 24 x 20 inches 61 x 50.8 cm
      KADAR BROCK
      take a break, the movement is the beginning, 2023 - 2024
      Oil on canvas
      24 x 20 inches
      61 x 50.8 cm
    • KADAR BROCK coming home, looking for a way home, 2023 - 2025 Oil on canvas 72 x 60 inches 182.9 x 152.4 cm
      KADAR BROCK
      coming home, looking for a way home, 2023 - 2025
      Oil on canvas
      72 x 60 inches
      182.9 x 152.4 cm
    • KADAR BROCK fantastic dreams, have your own day, 2023 - 2025 Oil on canvas 72 x 60 inches 182.9 x 152.4 cm
      KADAR BROCK
      fantastic dreams, have your own day, 2023 - 2025
      Oil on canvas
      72 x 60 inches
      182.9 x 152.4 cm
    • KADAR BROCK in a special way, three mes, openness, 2020 - 2025 Oil on canvas 24 x 20 inches 61 x 50.8 cm
      KADAR BROCK
      in a special way, three mes, openness, 2020 - 2025
      Oil on canvas
      24 x 20 inches
      61 x 50.8 cm
    • KADAR BROCK initiation site, the you that is me, the mine at rains, utah, 2020 - 2025 Acrylic, oil, house paint, and spray paint on canvas 60 x 48 inches 152.4 x 121.9 cm
      KADAR BROCK
      initiation site, the you that is me, the mine at rains, utah, 2020 - 2025
      Acrylic, oil, house paint, and spray paint on canvas
      60 x 48 inches
      152.4 x 121.9 cm
    • KADAR BROCK it is here now, get back near it, soul flight, 2021 - 2025 Acrylic, house paint, oil, and spray paint on canvas 60 x 48 inches 152.4 x 121.9 cm
      KADAR BROCK
      it is here now, get back near it, soul flight, 2021 - 2025
      Acrylic, house paint, oil, and spray paint on canvas
      60 x 48 inches
      152.4 x 121.9 cm
    • KADAR BROCK separate selves, 2023 - 2025 Oil on canvas 60 x 48 inches 152.4 x 121.9 cm
      KADAR BROCK
      separate selves, 2023 - 2025
      Oil on canvas
      60 x 48 inches
      152.4 x 121.9 cm
    • KADAR BROCK something you're not, 2023 - 2025 Oil on canvas 60 x 48 inches 152.4 x 121.9 cm
      KADAR BROCK
      something you're not, 2023 - 2025
      Oil on canvas
      60 x 48 inches
      152.4 x 121.9 cm
    • KADAR BROCK went underground, the heavenly two, mana physics, 2021 - 2025 Oil on canvas 40 x 30 inches 101.6 x 76.2 cm
      KADAR BROCK
      went underground, the heavenly two, mana physics, 2021 - 2025
      Oil on canvas
      40 x 30 inches
      101.6 x 76.2 cm
    • KADAR BROCK you can all love, 2017 - 2025 Acrylic, flashe, house paint, oil, and spray paint on canvas 72 x 96 inches 182.9 x 243.8 cm
      KADAR BROCK
      you can all love, 2017 - 2025
      Acrylic, flashe, house paint, oil, and spray paint on canvas
      72 x 96 inches
      182.9 x 243.8 cm
    • KADAR BROCK you can always imagine, where we all began, light column, 2021 - 2025 Oil on canvas 40 x 30 inches 101.6 x 76.2 cm
      KADAR BROCK
      you can always imagine, where we all began, light column, 2021 - 2025
      Oil on canvas
      40 x 30 inches
      101.6 x 76.2 cm
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