Since 2003 Amanda Browder and Stuart Keeler form the collective Career Day. Through public actions and installations their work demonstrates the relation between intervention, experience and location. The collaborative team creates a new connection between the individual and their usual environment, provoking a subtle dislocation of accepted norms. In order to create larger conversation within everyday life the quiet interruption of patterns, systems are gently manipulated, humorously transformed, and questioned then presented back to the viewer in an art context. The public sphere is of interest with sculptural and performative aspects present alongside technology. Keeler and Browder both maintain active studio practices independent and alongside collaborative vision and action.
Amanda Browder
Born in Missoula, MT, Amanda Browder resides in Brooklyn, NY. She received her MFA and MA from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and has taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is represented by The Nakaochiai Gallery in Tokyo, Japan and has shown nationally and internationally at galleries such as Lothringer 14 in Munich, Germany; White Columns in New York; Mixture Contemporary Gallery in Houston, TX; The Missoula Museum of the Arts in Missoula, MT; The Hyde Park Art Center, Gallery 400 at UIC, Western Exhibitions Gallery, and The Bodybuilder and Sportsman Gallery in Chicago. Her collaborative groups include Career Day Team in Chicago, MTN. Project, and is a primary member of the Chicago based art and culture review podcast www.badatsports.com.
Stuart Keeler
Canadian, Stuart Keeler is an artist of public spaces. Interest in examining curatorial constructs creates a new identity of projects in the development of a stronger link to the socially based production of art. Is it “public art” or is it art in public space? This query opens up and begins to examine established constructs within the evolving context of place in the city as a laboratory for new collaboration within the framework of an evolving dialogue.
Active within temporary and ephemeral public art production as well as the invention of urban space with activation of all art genre. Recent Exhibitions: Warp-Weft, Gallery 400 -University of Illinois Chicago, Service Works, Yerba Buena Center of the Arts, San Francisco, art 44.46 – Chicago, Interiority, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago. Upcoming: i.e. 1A-Hong Kong, Republic of China, Phantasmagorical, Center of Context, Vancouver, British Columbia.
PH.D Candidate: Plymouth University, United Kingdom,