Kadar Brock

b. New York, NY, 1980

Kadar Brock is an artist whose dynamic abstractions reveal a rigorous process of painting, sanding, priming and scraping. Brock layers multiple compositions atop one another, which become merged through the act of continued erasure and reworking of the surface. The resulting abstractions reveal records of their own creation, such as the ruptures and tears that are evidence of physical strain applied to the work

Brock sources imagery from personal memory, family history, and iconographies of New Age religion, alongside representations of masculinity in American and Japanese comic books and film. He completes a work before entirely deconstructing it, so that the original image remains as a shadow or trace. Each painting is a memorial, full of ghostly referents. Brock engages in a kind of reverse archaeology in which his topographic compositions incite the viewer to take a slower, closer look.

Brock completed his BFA at Cooper Union School of Art in New York. He has exhibited internationally, with solo shows at Vigo Gallery, London; Patron Gallery, Chicago; Gallery Diet, Miami; Thierry Goldberg, NYC; Almine Rech, Brussels and the Hole, NYC.