Brandon Ndife
b. 1991, Hammond, Indiana
Person TypeIndividual
Newcastle, CA, 1965 - 2006, Los Angeles, CA
b. 1929, Bronx, New York; d. 2023, New York, New York
Chicago, Illinois, 1940 - 2007, New York
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BiographyBrandon Ndife's sculptures fuse forms that resemble domestic objects with elements derived from the natural world. Through hand-building, painting, and casting in synthetic resin or polyurethane foam, Ndife creates meticulous replicas that keep the readymade tradition at a subtle remove. Expectant with ripening and rot, the works appear like relics unearthed from a distant past or envoys of a dystopian future. Ndife is drawn to domestic items, in part, for their capacity to index American life under capitalism—wrought with racial, class, and now ecological disparities in all that we touch. In his assemblages, wild growth seems poised to overtake the built environment, with all its structural exclusions. For him, the works "operate as portals that get us thinking about objects that are larger than our systems, larger than ourselves.” (https://greenenaftaligallery.com/artists/brandon-ndife)