Title: Joe Bradley /
Authors: Chaffee, Cathleen; Conaty, Kim; Nadel, Dan,; Dunham, V. Carroll; Hatley, Pam, 1969-; Bradley, Joe, 1975-; Albright-Knox Art Gallery,; Rose Art Museum,
Year: 2017
Subjects: Bradley, Joe, Exhibitions.; Bradley, Joe,; Painting, Abstract Exhibitions.; Drawing, American Exhibitions.; Drawing, American.
Abstract: American painter Joe Bradley has distinguished himself among the artists of his generation with his mutable approach to art-making. With minimal fuss, Bradley works in series, picking up and discarding styles and oscillating between abstraction and figuration as it suits him. 'A retrospective of his work would look like a group show,' wrote dealer and collector Kenny Schachter. Bradley's first large-scale North American exhibition supports this observation: he is shown moving from expressionistic canvases that record the detritus and spontaneity of the studio environment to subtly figurative send-ups of Minimalist painting, then to starkly primitivistic glyphs drawn in grease pencil on unprimed canvas, followed by modular aluminum sculptures paired with textual directives.
Contents: Joe Bradley : use the right tool for the job / Cathleen Chaffee -- Still walking : painting over time / Kim Conaty -- Paintings and sculptures -- Drawing is a thing you do for fun, partly to learn how to do it / Dan Nadel -- Drawings -- A conversation with Joe Bradley / Carroll Dunham.