Cudelice Brazelton IV's works are magnets. He uses them to glean what he finds in the urban
landscape in the street in factories and studios: fabric leather metal cardboard and all
sorts of implements. He arranges these materials and things atop one another and side by side
in collages assemblages and sculptures staging encounters also between the contexts in which
they originated and what he calls their "undercurrents " their subtexts. Such frames of
reference including that of the exhibition space play a key role in his art an aspect he
will occasionally engage quite explicitly creating site-specific works for some settings. This
makes the space the context and a part of the piece sometimes physically so as when Brazelton
works directly on the walls. The recent works gathered in this catalog were displayed in a
former railcar repair workshop. It is hard to imagine a more industrial "metallic"
environment. There as between the covers of this catalog Brazelton's works appear to their
fullest advantage becoming veritable magnets drawing the gaze.
