James Harris Gallery | Brad Winchester "RAVELING"

Brad Winchester "RAVELING"

September 5, 2025—October 18, 2025 | Reception Saturday, Sept 6th, 4-6PM

James Harris Gallery is pleased to present our second solo exhibition with Brad Winchester entitled “RAVELING.” Winchester’s practice is defined by his relationship with material, process and repetition. His paintings begin with the exercise of deconstruction where the artist pulls apart the weft and warp of Belgium linen canvas for painting. He then re-weaves the strands of linen back together in specific patterns and density. Once reconstructed the artist puts the final woven material through multiple sessions of dying and bleaching, until tone and color resonate with his sensibility. The linen is then carefully hand tied over handmade stretcher bars before painting begins. Oil paint is then applied to specific areas of the surface to enhance the woven patterns. The painted areas also bring into focus the open spacing of his reweaving.

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Winchester combines his training as a painter with his current interest in process, material plurality, and postconceptualization. In his recent work, Winchester began by reconsidering painter’s linen as a sculptural and structural problematic. Using methods of deconstructing, dying, and re-presenting in unexpected ways in three dimensional space, Winchester challenges our relationship to and preconception of art objects. Winchester’s effort to lay bare his process emphasizes the equal importance of conceptualization and actualization in this work.

Winchester received his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2000. He currently lives and works in Seattle, WA.