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Ruling light 1970s

Title: Ruling light 1970s / Peter Bradley ; edited by Dieter Buchhart ; contributions by Dieter Buchhart, Adger Cowans, Mia Matthias, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Nancy Princenthal.
Author: Bradley, Peter, 1940-
Publication: New York : Karma, 2023.

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Description

180 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 32 x 27 cm

Summary

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. In the early 1970s, Bradley favored the empty warehouses that proliferated across Downtown Manhattan, where he worked in the same buildings with artists William T. Williams, Kenneth Noland, Joel Shapiro and Mark Rothko. Bradley lay his canvases on his studio floors, applying color from above. During this period, Bradley was friends with musicians including Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, and Art Blakely. He continues to listen to jazz while he works, applying the same spirit of spontaneity and improvisation to his artistic practice. Exhibition: Karma, LA, USA (29.09-05.11.2022).

Alternative Title

Peter Bradley. Ruling light

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Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

Note

Published on the occasion of the exhibition, "Peter Bradley, Ruling Light: Paintings from the 1970s", organized by Dieter Buchhart, held at Karma, Los Angeles, California, September 29-November 5, 2022.

Call Number

Sc+ G 24-30

ISBN

9781949172928
1949172929

OCLC

1379050956

Author

Bradley, Peter, 1940- author, artist.

Title

Ruling light 1970s / Peter Bradley ; edited by Dieter Buchhart ; contributions by Dieter Buchhart, Adger Cowans, Mia Matthias, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Nancy Princenthal.

Publisher

New York : Karma, 2023.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

Buchhart, Dieter, 1971- editor, contributor.

Cowans, Adger W., contributor.

Matthias, Mia, contributor.

Obrist, Hans Ulrich, contributor.

Princenthal, Nancy, contributor.

Karma (Los Angeles, Calif.), host institution, publisher.

Research Call Number

Sc+ G 24-30

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