Keegan Brady

Nov 25, 2024 | family.style | Keegan Brady |Meka Boyle

“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity,” wrote the philosopher and mystic Simone Weil in a letter to the poet Joë Bousquet. I’m often reminded of this line when observing the work of an artist whom I’m pointedly drawn to. It’s touching to encounter the labored research and obsessive tendencies of another’s mind, to discern the vital expressions of their thinking through tangible, visual objects—as well as the compulsion to share these findings with others.

Nov 25, 2024 | family.style | Keegan Brady |Ella Quittner

Kristin-Lee Moolman’s vibrant images capture historical and futuristic imagery. The South African-born and -based photographer and filmmaker has lent her eye to brands and publications alike, always referencing her South African roots in the landscape of her work. The delicacy, color, and unique intensity of her images mirror the calamondin marmalade recipe Moolman shares with Family Style.

Mar 15, 2024 | pinupmagazine.org | Keegan Brady

A far cry from the splashy, made-for-Instagram fashion shows of today, the presentations of Cristóbal Balenciaga’s mid-century atelier — 200-garment collections which frequently lasted for three hours — resembled something closer to a practice of ascetic study. Even amongst his prestigious couture contemporaries, such as Pierre Balmain or Christian Dior, Balenciaga’s protracted and meditative approach was exceptionally rare.

Feb 27, 2024 | pinupmagazine.org | Keegan Brady

Artist Lotte Andersen’s installations are a bricolage of found pop culture ephemera, sound, video, and immersive, haptic sculpture. Plumbing the depths of group dynamics and the physiological textures (and fragments) of the greater social fabric, Andersen seamlessly memorializes her own family history and personal experiences with the sociopolitical zeitgeist. Her art career, thus far, has been one of an organic and nonlinear path.

Oct 26, 2023 | pinupmagazine.org | Keegan Brady

Kayode Ojo’s Spiritual Readymades by Keegan Brady Over 100 years have passed since Marcel Duchamp debuted his thinking-man’s urinal. Fountain (1917) was an embryonic play on meaning and commodity fetishism, an irreverent stunt that forever altered how art — and its artist — were culturally understood. Like Duchamp in his heyday, artist Kayode Ojo paints a complex portrait of modern existence through his selective inventory of the commodity objects available at our fingertips.