Bradley Weyandt: August 2025
Bradley Weyandt (b. 1989, Greensburg, PA) is a visual artist based between Pittsburgh, PA and Columbus, OH. Weyandt received an MFA from the Ohio State University in 2022, a BFA from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania (PennWest Edinboro) in 2016, and an AFA from Westmoreland County Community College in 2013. Weyandt's work has been included in exhibitions held by Skylab Gallery, 934 Gallery, The Ministry of Culture & Tourism, and ROY G BIV Gallery of Columbus, OH; The Sculpture Center of Cleveland, OH; Associated Artists of Pittsburgh, SPACE Gallery, and 937 Gallery of Pittsburgh, PA; and The Westmoreland Museum of American Art of Greensburg, PA. His work has been supported by the Ohio Arts Council's Individual Excellence Award and multiple Greater Columbus Arts Council grants. Weyandt was awarded a Kimmel Harding Nelson artist residency (Nebraska City, NE) in 2023 and will be an artist-in-residence at Touchstone Center for Crafts (Farmington, PA) in August of 2025.
Driven by material possibilities, artist Bradley Weyandt reconfigures found images, text, and objects into works that flicker between recognition and distortion. Grounded in a sculptural foundation and propelled by appropriation, replication, and excess, his practice revels in mischief, material contradiction, and unstable forms. Screenshots of blockbuster vampires and text in black metal typography transform into towering tapestries of Mylar and monofilament, machine-knit on his humble Brother KH930—merging manual craft with industrial shimmer. A pair of evening gloves are cast in concrete; a pleather jacket is coated in ten pounds of black licorice, collapsing consumption into excess. Fluorescent bulbs take shape as a precarious chair, while a Quikrete bag is reimagined through knitted mimicry, softening construction language into something fragile and performative. An old sawhorse, fitted with mirrored booties, levitates between the structural and the absurd, reframing support as display. Material contradictions propel the work: delicacy masquerades as strength, ornament undermines function, and familiar objects dissolve into instability. Across these gestures, meaning accumulates and unravels—spectacle dissolves into residue, surfaces fracture and seduce, and structural forms bend under the weight of excess, as the decorative refuses containment and misbehaves.
