Brad Howe
“If we are to engage in the project of self-edification, the evolution of self, the enterprise is tied to our imagination. As Richard Rorty indicates, imagination is bound by our vocabulary, and it is in the growth of vocabulary we should focus. Vocabulary is tied to experience, and it is in energized moments of exposure to strangeness that our vocabulary expands. Encountering strangeness stretches and expands our self-image and seeds the rich potential for our collective conversations.” - Brad Howe
Brad Howe began his career in Brazil after studying history at the University of Sao Paulo. His work presents the influence of inquiry into the aesthetics of various cultures and distinct movements in the continuum of art history.
Howe’s work continues to connect with international communities, exhibiting and completing site-specific commissions both in the US and abroad. Known for his sculpture practice, Howe’s focus also includes the representation of objects through diverse means, including photography.
Biography
Balancing playfulness, wit, strength, stillness, and motion, Brad Howe’s sculptures are dynamic experiments in color and form. Having started his artistic career making mobiles reminiscent of Alexander Calder’s pioneering midcentury kinetic art, he continues to infuse his work with a sense of lightness. Even in sculptures made of heavy steel, he creates elements that twist, rise, and perch. His quieter, stationary wall sculptures incorporate arching lines that recall elegant movements. In addition to Calder, his influences include Arp and Brancusi—artists who infused solid matter with a similar gravity-defying feel.
The idea of social engagement and conversation is a constant theme in Howe’s practice, evident in the way his light-hearted sculptures activate the viewer’s space, as well as in his passion for creating public art and for working closely with collectors on commissioned projects. "My sculptures examine vitality and celebrate beauty,” he has said. “Their aim is to capture the vigor of life and radiate with unabashed potentiality. These are the issues that stimulate me as a person and as an artist, and that are discussed over and over with those who sit with me at my fire and with those at whose fire I find myself sitting."
Howe studied international relations at Stanford University and was inspired to become an artist while visiting the University of São Paolo to specialize in Brazilian affairs. His public installations include large-scale kinetic sculptures at the Georgia International Convention Center near Atlanta, and Temple University, Philadelphia. He has exhibited his work in nearly 20 countries, at numerous galleries and museums, and is included in the collections of the Pasadena Museum of California Art, M.I.T., and the City of West Hollywood, in addition to many other corporate and private collections. Reviews and profiles have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Harper’s Bazaar, the New York Times, and Architectural Digest, among others. He lives and works in Malibu, California.
Born
1959 Riverside, CA.
Education
Stanford University, Stanford, Palo Alto, CA.
University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2020 Trooping the Colours, Biberach, Germany
2019 Wishful Thinking, Caldwell Snyder Gallery, St. Helena
Art Palm Springs, Caldwell Snyder Gallery, Palm Springs, CA
Art Market San Francisco, Caldwell Snyder Gallery
SCOPE Miami, Caldwell Snyder Gallery
2018 35th Anniversary Show, Caldwell Snyder Gallery, San Francisco
Art Market Hamptons, Caldwell Snyder Gallery, NY, NY
LA Art Show, Caldwell Snyder Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Art Market San Francisco, Caldwell Snyder Gallery, SF, CA.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2019 Wishful Thinking, Caldwell Snyder Gallery, St. Helena, CA
2017 Galerie Uli Land, Biberach, Germany.
2016 Pacific Design Center, West Hollywood, CA.
Gallery Jeon, Daegu, South Korea.
Galerie Uli Lang, Biberach, Germany.
2015 Caldwell Snyder Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
CMay Gallery, Seoul, South Korea.
2014 Museum of Art & History, Lancaster, CA.
The Frostig Collection, Santa Monica, CA.
Selected Public & Corporate Collections
Allergan Corporation, Irvine, CA • Arario Industries, Cheon-Shi, South Korea • Bachem California Inc., Torrance, CA • Baxter Healthcare Corporation, Irvine, CA • Beechcraft Corporation, Van Nuys, CA
Birtcher Corporation, Irvine, CA • Boehringer Ingelheim, Biberach, Germany • Boehringer Ingelheim, CT • California Spine Center, Thousand Oaks, CA • Canon Corporation, Irvine, CA • Carl Bean AIDS Center, Los Angeles, CA • Cedars-Sinai Hospital, Los Angeles, CA •
Chandler Properties, Los Angeles, CA • City of Hope, Duarte, CA •
City of Montebello, Transportation Building, Montebello, CA • City of Santa Fe Springs, CA • Colegio Nacional de Educacion Profesional TecnicaL Administrative Campus, Toluca, Mexico • Concord Property Corporation, San Antonio, TX • Duncan Aviation, Lincoln, NE • Edificio Siglum, SARE Corporation, Mexico City, Mexico • Edison International, Rosemead, CA • Eisenhower Medical Center, Rancho Mirage, CA • Equity Office, Atlanta, GA • Georgia International Convention Center • Gershwin Hotel, New York City, NY • Hilton Caribe, San Juan, Puerto Rico • Intuit, Reno, NV • Katell Properties, Los Angeles, CA • Kaiser Permanente, Baldwin Park, CA • Kitakyushu City International Center, Kitakyushu, Japan • Kimball International, Inc., Los Angeles, CA • Kreissparkasse, Biberach, Germany • La Fundidora, Centro Cultural, Monterrey, NL, Mexico • Landesbank Baden-Wurttemberg, Stuttgart, Germany • Lockton Insurance, Los Angeles, CA • Lord Baltimore Properties, Empire Towers III, Ontario, CA • Los Angeles Retarded Citizen’s Foundation, Saugus, CA • Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, CA • Medix Mihagino, Kitakyushu, Japan • Mercure Hotel, Sao Paulo, Brazil • M.G.M. Grand Airlines, JFK Airport, NY • Ministry of Industry and Trade Building, Mexico City, Mexico • M.I.T., Cambridge, MA • Murrel Company, Newport Beach, CA • Neiman Marcus, Dallas, TX • Nobe Telecommunications Corporation, Miami, FL • Overton Moore and Associates Inc. Los Angeles, CA • Pacific Medical Buildings, San Diego, CA • Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena, CA • Raleigh Durham Airport, Raleigh, NC • Royal Host, International Forum Building, Tokyo, Japan • Saks Fifth Avenue, USA • Samsung Corporation, Seoul, South Korea • Sand Hill Property Company, Sunnyvale, CA • SAS Software Inc. Cary, NC • Secretary of Commerce, Mexico City, Mexico • Straub Autovermietung Hertz, Biberach, Germany • The Diplomat Hotel, Hollywood, FL • The Trenton Group, Los Angeles, CA • UCLA, Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA • UCLA, Anderson School of Business, Los Angeles, CA
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Selected Artworks
Born
1959 Riverside, CA.
Education
Stanford University, Stanford, Palo Alto, CA.
University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2020 Trooping the Colours, Biberach, Germany
2019 Wishful Thinking, Caldwell Snyder Gallery, St. Helena
Art Palm Springs, Caldwell Snyder Gallery, Palm Springs, CA
Art Market San Francisco, Caldwell Snyder Gallery
SCOPE Miami, Caldwell Snyder Gallery
2018 35th Anniversary Show, Caldwell Snyder Gallery, San Francisco
Art Market Hamptons, Caldwell Snyder Gallery, NY, NY
LA Art Show, Caldwell Snyder Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Art Market San Francisco, Caldwell Snyder Gallery, SF, CA.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2019 Wishful Thinking, Caldwell Snyder Gallery, St. Helena, CA
2017 Galerie Uli Land, Biberach, Germany.
2016 Pacific Design Center, West Hollywood, CA.
Gallery Jeon, Daegu, South Korea.
Galerie Uli Lang, Biberach, Germany.
2015 Caldwell Snyder Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
CMay Gallery, Seoul, South Korea.
2014 Museum of Art & History, Lancaster, CA.
The Frostig Collection, Santa Monica, CA.
Selected Public & Corporate Collections
Allergan Corporation, Irvine, CA • Arario Industries, Cheon-Shi, South Korea • Bachem California Inc., Torrance, CA • Baxter Healthcare Corporation, Irvine, CA • Beechcraft Corporation, Van Nuys, CA
Birtcher Corporation, Irvine, CA • Boehringer Ingelheim, Biberach, Germany • Boehringer Ingelheim, CT • California Spine Center, Thousand Oaks, CA • Canon Corporation, Irvine, CA • Carl Bean AIDS Center, Los Angeles, CA • Cedars-Sinai Hospital, Los Angeles, CA •
Chandler Properties, Los Angeles, CA • City of Hope, Duarte, CA •
City of Montebello, Transportation Building, Montebello, CA • City of Santa Fe Springs, CA • Colegio Nacional de Educacion Profesional TecnicaL Administrative Campus, Toluca, Mexico • Concord Property Corporation, San Antonio, TX • Duncan Aviation, Lincoln, NE • Edificio Siglum, SARE Corporation, Mexico City, Mexico • Edison International, Rosemead, CA • Eisenhower Medical Center, Rancho Mirage, CA • Equity Office, Atlanta, GA • Georgia International Convention Center • Gershwin Hotel, New York City, NY • Hilton Caribe, San Juan, Puerto Rico • Intuit, Reno, NV • Katell Properties, Los Angeles, CA • Kaiser Permanente, Baldwin Park, CA • Kitakyushu City International Center, Kitakyushu, Japan • Kimball International, Inc., Los Angeles, CA • Kreissparkasse, Biberach, Germany • La Fundidora, Centro Cultural, Monterrey, NL, Mexico • Landesbank Baden-Wurttemberg, Stuttgart, Germany • Lockton Insurance, Los Angeles, CA • Lord Baltimore Properties, Empire Towers III, Ontario, CA • Los Angeles Retarded Citizen’s Foundation, Saugus, CA • Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, CA • Medix Mihagino, Kitakyushu, Japan • Mercure Hotel, Sao Paulo, Brazil • M.G.M. Grand Airlines, JFK Airport, NY • Ministry of Industry and Trade Building, Mexico City, Mexico • M.I.T., Cambridge, MA • Murrel Company, Newport Beach, CA • Neiman Marcus, Dallas, TX • Nobe Telecommunications Corporation, Miami, FL • Overton Moore and Associates Inc. Los Angeles, CA • Pacific Medical Buildings, San Diego, CA • Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena, CA • Raleigh Durham Airport, Raleigh, NC • Royal Host, International Forum Building, Tokyo, Japan • Saks Fifth Avenue, USA • Samsung Corporation, Seoul, South Korea • Sand Hill Property Company, Sunnyvale, CA • SAS Software Inc. Cary, NC • Secretary of Commerce, Mexico City, Mexico • Straub Autovermietung Hertz, Biberach, Germany • The Diplomat Hotel, Hollywood, FL • The Trenton Group, Los Angeles, CA • UCLA, Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA • UCLA, Anderson School of Business, Los Angeles, CA
Balancing playfulness, wit, strength, stillness, and motion, Brad Howe’s sculptures are dynamic experiments in color and form. Having started his artistic career making mobiles reminiscent of Alexander Calder’s pioneering midcentury kinetic art, he continues to infuse his work with a sense of lightness. Even in sculptures made of heavy steel, he creates elements that twist, rise, and perch. His quieter, stationary wall sculptures incorporate arching lines that recall elegant movements. In addition to Calder, his influences include Arp and Brancusi—artists who infused solid matter with a similar gravity-defying feel.
The idea of social engagement and conversation is a constant theme in Howe’s practice, evident in the way his light-hearted sculptures activate the viewer’s space, as well as in his passion for creating public art and for working closely with collectors on commissioned projects. "My sculptures examine vitality and celebrate beauty,” he has said. “Their aim is to capture the vigor of life and radiate with unabashed potentiality. These are the issues that stimulate me as a person and as an artist, and that are discussed over and over with those who sit with me at my fire and with those at whose fire I find myself sitting."
Howe studied international relations at Stanford University and was inspired to become an artist while visiting the University of São Paolo to specialize in Brazilian affairs. His public installations include large-scale kinetic sculptures at the Georgia International Convention Center near Atlanta, and Temple University, Philadelphia. He has exhibited his work in nearly 20 countries, at numerous galleries and museums, and is included in the collections of the Pasadena Museum of California Art, M.I.T., and the City of West Hollywood, in addition to many other corporate and private collections. Reviews and profiles have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Harper’s Bazaar, the New York Times, and Architectural Digest, among others. He lives and works in Malibu, California.
Biography
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“If we are to engage in the project of self-edification, the evolution of self, the enterprise is tied to our imagination. As Richard Rorty indicates, imagination is bound by our vocabulary, and it is in the growth of vocabulary we should focus. Vocabulary is tied to experience, and it is in energized moments of exposure to strangeness that our vocabulary expands. Encountering strangeness stretches and expands our self-image and seeds the rich potential for our collective conversations.” - Brad Howe
Brad Howe began his career in Brazil after studying history at the University of Sao Paulo. His work presents the influence of inquiry into the aesthetics of various cultures and distinct movements in the continuum of art history.
Howe’s work continues to connect with international communities, exhibiting and completing site-specific commissions both in the US and abroad. Known for his sculpture practice, Howe’s focus also includes the representation of objects through diverse means, including photography.
Brad Howe
"The purpose of art is to address our projections, good and bad, attractive and grotesque, our strengths as well as our delusions, in order to know ourselves and in turn our true relationship with others, and ultimately our connection with life.”
“If we are to engage in the project of self-edification, the evolution of self, the enterprise is tied to our imagination. As Richard Rorty indicates, imagination is bound by our vocabulary, and it is in the growth of vocabulary we should focus. Vocabulary is tied to experience, and it is in energized moments of exposure to strangeness that our vocabulary expands. Encountering strangeness stretches and expands our self-image and seeds the rich potential for our collective conversations.” - Brad Howe
Brad Howe began his career in Brazil after studying history at the University of Sao Paulo. His work presents the influence of inquiry into the aesthetics of various cultures and distinct movements in the continuum of art history.
Howe’s work continues to connect with international communities, exhibiting and completing site-specific commissions both in the US and abroad. Known for his sculpture practice, Howe’s focus also includes the representation of objects through diverse means, including photography.