YOU CAN'T GET THERE FROM HERE :: Devon Brady

5.4.18

Project Space

Devon Brady creates a (possibly) transcendent environment for viewers (participants) in the Project Space at Tempus Projects to open May 4th. 'It might be completely disorienting with people bumping into each other and falling down, or it might be totally transcendent.' Acrylic mirrors cover the ceiling of a gallery, coupled with viewers in belay glasses, set a stage onto which other dramas can be projected. It is a frame or vessel in which art can be created and enjoyed. Or we can just dance and attempt to transcend ourselves in the most primal of ways - through music, and movement, and trance.'

Devon Brady is an artist, designer, musician, paramedic, and firefighter.  Beginning his creative life as a drummer in Tampa's 1980's punk scene, Devon studied sculpture and photography at the University of South Florida and went on to work in the scenic arts, producing props, scenery, and environments for the entertainment and hospitality industries. Having founded LiveWork Studios in 2011 along with his wife, Janine Awai, and long-term collaborator, Michael LeMieux, the three partners work together to produce everything from installation art to custom furniture and interiors.  As a member of Tampa's celebrated arts collective, Experimental Skeleton, and through his involvement with LiveWork, Devon has contributed to public art and design projects from Florida to California. Most recently, Devon has returned to his early interests in photography as a means of documenting the people and places that make his life interesting. In addition to - or alongside - his creative endeavors, Devon is a fourteen-year veteran firefighter and paramedic in Hillsborough County, Florida. Working 24-hour shifts, he spends every third day at the fire station and divides the rest of his time between his family and his home studio in Seminole Heights.