Ivan Bridges

"In a smile, an early morning trip downstairs to the laundry, the simple play and joy of youth. Everything is new and can be new again. A look reminds me of what was lost – it's haunting – but also incredibly beautiful, delicate as a dress. It's fleeting. When I look again, it's already gone – but the essence never leaves. What else but to live in these images and let go into them as well. Everyone deserves a second chance."

—Ivan Bridges

Feel Felt celebrates the artist’s continuing exploration towards salvation and the reclamation of a harsh youth defined by an absence of innocence – and the gift of re-finding fragility in the fleeting medicinal meditations of family in the figurative. Ivan Bridges (b. 1984 Portland, Oregon) is a San Francisco Art Institute (Sfai) Alumni who lives and works in Los Angeles, California.