This is Kadar Brock

Kadar Brock (born May 28, 1980) is a casualist artist. He graduated in 2002 when a BFA from Cooper Union School of Art in New York City. He lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

Pictures of Brock’s function were shown in W Magazine. The New York Times wrote a short fragment about a produce an effect he was in. A portray of his arts was used as an example by Bloomberg News. ArtForum wrote a brief piece about his work. Cultured Magazine and Interview Magazine wrote roughly him.

Brock first creates relatively usual large abstract paintings, which one announcer describes as “happy”. These are then “negated and disenchanted” by a long process including totaling layers, scraping, puncturing, and slicing. The results of this process are what Brock exhibits. He next incorporates fragments of such canvasses into the surfaces of extra works.

W Magazine wrote that Brock was “… best known for his unorthodox entry to abstract painting, in which he creates frenetic, gestural images and subsequently renders them unrecognizable gone the urge on of a razor blade and a capacity sander.”

Marina Cashdan wrote: “His studio is an ecosystem—and an efficient one—in which the artist’s analytical and ritualistic process makes for a consistent upcycling of materials across the space: when he spray-paints, he uses a canvas as the Fall cloth; that canvas becomes the Begin of a painting; and that painting has two fates: one sliding way in is going below the razor and the industrial sander, before visceral coated later than layers of pigments and primed, sanded, and primed, a process repeated until the desired effect is reached; the other fate is to be martyred into chips or dust.”

Stephan Cox, in Hunted Projects: In Dialogue wrote: “What’s fascinating is that Brock’s works are the product of an artist who aims to demystify the gesture in painting through creating rituals that in effect obliterate the didactic artist-viewer scenario. Brock doesn’t purpose to Make works that are easily gain entry to as swine a by-product of an artist’s expression; Brock has created a set of rituals, a rolling of dice, where he, in effect has his activities directed for him. This could be through the number of brush strokes to apply or the number of cuts to make, in all, his intuitive gate to painting is not present or discernible to the viewer.”