Mick Brady
Artist
Creator of Chrome Underwood
Chrome is an avatar in the virtual world of Second Life. He came into being in the autumn of 2007 – the culmination of a lifelong journey for Mick Brady, an award-winning artist and author in real life who had long struggled to create an authentically human form of expression using advanced forms of technology.
In creating Chrome, though, he may have accomplished a bit more than he anticipated, for over the past several years his avatar has gained increasing fame and acclaim for an ever-growing body of cutting-edge work; from pop-infused, abstract digital collage to avatar-centered paintings to virtual comic books and experimental 3D imagery. His work has been exhibited not only in some of the best galleries in the metaverse but also in America and in Europe. In short, Chrome has become the center of an ongoing narrative that is a work of art in itself.
His human counterpart can only sit back and smile at all of this. From his early days in New York when he was up to his elbows in paint, fiddling with cameras and projectors and reams of canvas, to the magical present where he now travels with Chrome through time and space in the blink of an eye, creating works which exist almost entirely in digital (read: imaginary) form, then conjuring them up in galleries that also seem to magically appear somewhere in the landscape of the mind. The mind that matters, that is.. the creative imagination.
You can follow Chrome’s adventures at his blog, Chrome Never Sleeps
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