‘Recent Work’

Patrick Bradley

October 22^nd to November 26th

Patrick Bradley’s explorations in abstraction pay tribute not only to the genre’s persistent visual presence as an indefatigable subject, but also to a simple truth: beauty persists.

Bradley is an abstractionist of committed attention to expanding his personal vision, as well as his range of visual language.    

One is immediately struck by what is at first a disarming simplicity of composition, color, and juxtaposition of formal elements.  But his work has much deeper resonances on repeated looking, and one soon realizes that these paintings are not simple at all. Instead, they represent an eye that maintains a constant and perceptive observation of the natural world — Bradley has an extraordinary ability to reduce a form to its soul — and to couple it in community with others that share this energy and depth.  Simplicity is the foundation in these works, which then build onto the canvas a complete architecture of personal language.  The delight one finds in the smallest application of a color is in seeing how that color is created in layers, is considered and partnered with colors and forms next to it. For Bradley, abstraction is nothing short of celebration. In his current exhibition, Bradley’s energies concentrate on the beauty of grids, creating expanses of rich color in concert with square and rectangular geometries, which crowd each other companionably; these are objects with unique personalities, gladly vying for our attention.  They are colloquial as well as collegial. Bradley’s formal choices are sound, and balanced with a sense of free, sonorous brushwork that opens up the surface grids with beautiful movement.  In Patrick Bradley’s canvases, abstraction is what our eye learns to see, after much looking at the world. And they urge us to keep doing so.   

Philip Clarke. New York. The Art Point.

Opening Reception: Saturday 22nd October 2011 @ 2pm

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