Brothers Steven and Billy Dufala are artists, musicians and designers based in Philadelphia PA, who have been working together forever, and have been making art as the Dufala Brothers since 2004. Moving freely between disciplines, Dufala Brothers’ works are absurd and sometimes irreverent comments on consumer culture, waste, reuse, violence, humor and taboo. Distinctly focused on craft, the brothers’ practice is rooted in conversation tempered by shared ambitions, available resources, and the opportunity to explore disparate media including but not limited to paper, wood, steel, large machinery, video, trash, and belly button lint.
Billy is a co-founder of RAIR, an artist residency at Revolution Recovery, a construction and demolition waste recycling facility in Philadelphia. RAIR has been hosting artists and producing artist projects since 2012, most recently inviting a team of social scientists to to explore the recycling facility using ethnographic, anthropological and forensic methodologies. This programming is supported by Pew Center for Arts and Heritage.
Steven is a set designer for new theater, most recently Geoff Sobelle’s HOME (BAM NextWave, Edinburgh International Festival, New Zealand Festival) and The Object Lesson (Taiwan International Festival of the Arts, New York Theater Workshop, Sydney Festival, 2015 Bessie award for the design team)
The Dufalas contributed an essay to Sharon Louden’s The Artist as Culture Producer (intellect books, 2017) and their works are in the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the West Collection, PAFA, and many private collections.
Steven and Billy co-teach sculpture at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and are represented by Fleisher/Ollman Gallery in Philadelphia.
Website: www.dufalabrothers.com