The Bruce High Quality Foundation is a collective based in New York City that mixes irreverent humor, trenchant social critique, and art historical references in its work, and spans several mediums of production, including painting, sculpture, performance, and video. The group was formed in 2003 by - an undisclosed, and unknown number of - alumni of Cooper Union, a prestigious school devoted to architecture, art, and engineering in downtown Manhattan, and its members, all of whom work under the "Bruce" moniker, and have remained anonymous.
The Bruce High Quality Foundation
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The Bruce High Quality Foundation, Aftermaths, 2014
Play dough on steel
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The Bruce High Quality Foundation, Aftermaths, 2014
Play dough on steel
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The Bruce High Quality Foundation, Aftermaths, 2014
Play dough on steel
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The Bruce High Quality Foundation, Aftermaths, 2014
Play dough on steel
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The Bruce High Quality Foundation, Aftermaths, 2014
Play dough on steel
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The Bruce High Quality Foundation, Aftermaths, 2014
Play dough on steel
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The Bruce High Quality Foundation, Aftermaths, 2014
Play dough on steel
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The Bruce High Quality Foundation, Aftermaths, 2014
Play dough on steel
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The Bruce High Quality Foundation, Aftermaths, 2014
Play dough on steel
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The Bruce High Quality Foundation, Aftermaths, 2014
Play dough on steel
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The Bruce High Quality Foundation, Aftermaths, 2014
Play dough on steel
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The Bruce High Quality Foundation, Aftermaths, 2014
Play dough on steel
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The Bruce High Quality Foundation, Aftermaths, 2014
Play dough on steel
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The Bruce High Quality Foundation, Aftermaths, 2014
Play dough on steel
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The Bruce High Quality Foundation, The Apostles, 2014
Steel, plaster, asphalt, AV components
106,7 x 154,9 x 50,8 cm -
The Bruce High Quality Foundation, The Apostles, 2014
Steel, plaster, asphalt, AV components
210,8 x 99,1 x 50,8 cm -
The Bruce High Quality Foundation, Bruce's Entry into Brussels,1889, 2014
Silkscreen, acrylic and enamel paint on canvas
203,2 x 355,6 cm -
The Bruce High Quality Foundation, The Door, 2014
Silkscreen, acrylic paint on canvas
152,4 x 101,6 cm -
The Bruce High Quality Foundation, The Door, 2014
Silkscreen, acrylic paint on canvas
152,4 x 101,6 cm -
The Bruce High Quality Foundation, The Door, 2014
Silkscreen, acrylic paint on canvas
152,4 x 101,6 cm -
The Bruce High Quality Foundation, The Door, 2014
Silkscreen, acrylic paint on mirror
152,4 x 101,6 cm -
The Bruce High Quality Foundation, The Door, 2014
Silkscreen, acrylic paint on mirror
152,4 x 101,6 cm -
The Bruce High Quality Foundation, The Door, 2014
Silkscreen, acrylic paint on mirror
152,4 x 101,6 cm -
The Bruce High Quality Foundation, The Apostles, 2014
Steel, plaster, asphalt, AV components
104,1 x 61 x 193 cm -
The Bruce High Quality Foundation, The Apostles, 2014
Steel, plaster, asphalt, AV components
76,2 x 116,8 x 50,8 cm -
The Bruce High Quality Foundation, The Apostles, 2014
Steel, plaster, asphalt, AV components
94 x 83,8 x 81,3 cm -
The Bruce High Quality Foundation, The Apostles, 2014
Steel, plaster, asphalt, AV components
61 x 177,8 x 50,8 cm -
The Bruce High Quality Foundation, The Apostles, 2014
Steel, plaster, asphalt, AV components
177,8 x 157,5 x 58,4 cm -
The Bruce High Quality Foundation, The Apostles, 2014
Steel, plaster, asphalt, AV components
190,5 x 99,1 x 48,3 cm -
The Bruce High Quality Foundation, The Apostles, 2014
Steel, plaster, asphalt, AV components
66 x 149,9 x 50,8 cm -
The Bruce High Quality Foundation, The Apostles, 2014
Steel, plaster, asphalt, AV components
157,5 x 88,9 x 50,8 cm -
The Bruce High Quality Foundation, The Apostles, 2014
Steel, plaster, asphalt, AV components
165,1 x 116,8 x 99,1 cm -
The Bruce High Quality Foundation, The Greek and Roman Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art: 12.229.15, ca. 400 B.C. - 2014 C.E.
Play dough on steel
40,6 x 40,6 x 40,6 cm -
The Bruce High Quality Foundation, The Greek and Roman Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art: 10.210.12, ca. 440 B.C. - 2014 C.E.
Play dough on steel
38,1 x 12,7 x 12,7 cm -
The Bruce High Quality Foundation, The Greek and Roman Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art: 14.147.2, ca 1400 to 1300 B.C. - 2013 C.E.
Play dough on steel
58,4 x 40,6 x 35,6 cm -
The Bruce High Quality Foundation, The Greek and Roman Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art: 03.12.10, ca. 50 to 40 B.C. - 2014 C.E.
Play dough
152,4 x 94 cm -
The Bruce High Quality Foundation, Self Portrait (Alex), 2014
Silkscreen, acrylic and enamel paint on canvas
101,6 x 101,6 cm -
The Bruce High Quality Foundation, We Like America and America Likes Us, 2010
Cadillac Miller Meteor with AV Components
191,7 x 642,6 x 214,9 cm -
The Bruce High Quality Foundation, The New Colossus, 2012
Bronze
365,8 x 287 x 280 cm -
The Bruce High Quality Foundation, The Gate, 2011
Silkscreen, acrylic paint on canvas
120,6 x 171,5 cm -
The Bruce High Quality Foundation, Raft of the Medusa, 2004
Chromogenic photograph
85 x 85 cm -
The Bruce High Quality Foundation, Public Education (Eddie Needs Help), 2011
Chalkboard, mixed media
121,9 x 487,7 x 7,6 cm -
The Bruce High Quality Foundation, Las Meninas / Las Meninas, 2011
Silkscreen, acrylic paint on canvas
Two panels, each 259 x 228,6 -
The Bruce High Quality Foundation, Self Portrait (Einstein), 2011
Plaster bust, enamel paint, cigarette butt
35,6 x 25,4 x 20,3 cm -
The Bruce High Quality Foundation, Beyond Pastoral, 2010
Mixed media installation -
The Bruce High Quality Foundation, The Bachelors of Avignon, 2011
Silkscreen, acrylic paint on canvas
243,9 x 236,2 cm
Exhibitions
Selected press
- Jos Van Den Bergh, 'Bruce High Quality Foundation', ARTFORUM, January, 2015 — 627.8 kB
- Muriel de Crayencour, 'High Quality', MU IN THE CITY, September 19th, 2014 — 2.5 MB
- Sam Steverlynck, 'The Bruce High Quality Foundation', H ART, September 25th, 2014 — 412.1 kB
- Alexxa Gotthardt, 'History Repeats Itself in the Bruce High Quality Foundation’s Apocalyptic Landscapes', ARSTY, November 5th, 2014 — 4.7 MB
- Ch.B. 'The Bruce High Quality foundation' , September 2014 — 141.8 kB
- Jesse McKinley, 'Fake Artifact by an Unknown? Sold! Bruce High Quality Skewers (and Seduces) the Art World', The New York Times, December 5, 2013. — 261.5 kB
- 'The Fabled Collective of Bruces, the Bruce High Quality Foundation, Take over the Brooklyn Museum', The Urban Edge Apartment Living, July 19, 2013. — 285.4 kB
- Emily Nathan, 'Meet the Bruces: the High Quality Comes to Brooklyn Museum', ARTnews, June 26, 2013. — 29.5 kB
- Christian Viveros-Faune, 'The Bruce High Quality Foundation Takes on Art, Money and the Fame Game', The Village Voice, June 26, 2013. — 1.3 MB
- Rachel Corbett, 'Bruce High Quality Foundation at Lever House', ARTnet, May 24, 2012. — 121.5 kB
- 'Who are The Bruce High Quality Foundation?', Phaidon Online, April 2012. — 1.0 MB
- Lynn Maliszewski, 'Brucennial 2012: Harderer. Betterer. Fasterer. Strongerer', WhiteHotMagazine, April 2012. — 1.3 MB
- Phaidon News, 'Bruce High Quality Foundation go back to school', Phaidon, 2012 — 528.7 kB
- Mack McFarland, 'Professional challenges. Amateur Solutions.', Untitled, August 15, 2011. — 284.9 kB
- Andrea Neustein, 'Bruce Alrighty?', New York Foundation for the Arts, January 7, 2010. — 319.9 kB