Jonathan Brand’s varied artistic practice combines
aspects of performance, object-making, drawing,
and filmmaking. His works are the product of
actions propelled by experimentation, problem
solving, and discovery. Autobiographical sources are
a means to contend with personal history, the
notion of failure, and developing new methods of
thinking about and making work.

His first solo New York exhibition begins with a
photograph of Brand as a boy standing next to his
beloved BMX bike. A desire to create a copy of the
bike prompted a search for the original, based on
memory and the only existing photograph, and the
construction of a machine to make the wooden
copy. This obsession also compelled Brand to
(re)learn BMX bike tricks as an adult, which he
documented in film. The exhibition includes all the
components of this process, along with delicate
silverpoint drawings based on the video footage of
Brand riding and falling off his bike.