Karma Gallery in new West Hollywood is showing Peter Bradley’s paintings from the 1970s.
In the early 1970s, the young painter Peter Bradley expanded the formal and material constraints of abstract painting. Bradley was an early adopter of gel-acrylics, which he valued because they allowed him to paint with immediacy and gave him a nearly infinite range of chromatic possibilities. Instead of traditional brushes, Bradley favored the speed of commercial grade equipment. In 1965, Bradley had started to use a spray gun, which made him among one of the first artists to use the technology. The effect was potent, swift and open. A leader in the development of the Color Field movement, Bradley’s central concern was to release color from its pictorial bounds; he remains unconcerned with labels.
The show runs through November 5, 2022.
Our previous post on Bradley is here.
Bradley’s work is discussed in the book Abstract Painting: Concepts and Techniques
