My name is Brad Ulreich and I live in Washington, DC. From thence, I commence my creative efforts, including the pop surrealist digital collages that I have on this site.

I've shown art throughout the city over the last few years in various galleries, in various group shows.

In the fall of 2006, I was set upon early one morning (or late evening, depending upon your lifestyle) by a group of young toughs in DC. They bounced my head off a restaurant floor with the heels of their shoes a few times, and needless to say, I'm thrilled that I got out of there with my life, and without any permanent physical damage. The results for me could have been much more grim.

Realizing that I'd been given a warning shot across the bow to accomplish my goals now, or forever fizzle-out frustrated, I thought quite a bit about what I actually wanted to DO with my life, while I recovered from my injuries. Part of that recovery, clearly, was this art that I present to you on this website. It began to spill forth only a few short weeks after the incident, and I literally couldn't stop myself from creating it. I imagine that it behaved as some sort of therapy for my brain, since that was the damaged part, and brains are weird, complicated little beasties. To be quite honest, I don't even remember creating some of these images but for the odd flash of memory here and there; my memory took a particularly hard hit after the injury, but it's slowly regaining its former level of ineffectiveness. To learn more about my experience, please see my blog entries.

I've had people give me all sorts of interesting interpretations of my images, and I'm beginning to think that my images are vague enough that they exhibit a Rorschach-like quality. When I make them, I'm almost in a trance, and only after I'm finished do I see certain connections; however other people always point out things that I never noticed. That's very cool!

What they mean, ultimately, I can't be sure, but there's no mistaking the violence and sexuality that they contain. They also contain images of naive optimism in regards to space exploration, and I still hold these feelings as a jaded adult (Where the f&%k did the space program go?!? I thought we'd be sending manned expeditions to Mars by now, for f&%k's sake!!!). Anyway, it's part of me, as is sexuality, of course, but the violence that I experienced has unfortunately cast a shadow upon me, and one day, I hope to dispel it completely.

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