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Joe Bradley

Joe Bradley is notorious for his shape-shifting capabilities on canvas, merging minimalism and figuration in works that are at times spiritual, hallucinogenic, and funky. He considers painting to be an inner travel, and reacts to his aesthetic impulses as they arrive. His Schmagoo Paintings are comprised of generated monochromatic modular rectangles sculpted into loosely recognizable items, followed by cryptic emblems reminiscent of medieval battle flags. Although his black silhouette figures and murky oil paint abstractions might appear from the hand of two different artists, Bradley has an underlying vision of movement and the figure that links his deceptively simple, charming output. 


Bradley has exhibited at Le Consortium, Dijon, France, MoMA PS 1, New York, Saatchi Gallery, London, MACRO Foundation, Rome, and a plethora of gallery exhibitions internationally since 2000. He was included in Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World exhibition at MoMA in 2015, and Portugal Arte 10 in 2010.

Born 1975
Hometown Kittery Point, Maine
Lives and Works New York, New York
Education
BFA, Rhode Island School of Design, 1999
Permanent Collection

Museum of Modern Art, New York

Representing Galleries

CANADA, New York

Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York

SHOWS

Luhring Augustine

New York
Jun 27 2016 - Aug 12 2016

Shapeshifters

CANADA

New York
Jun 08 2016 - Jul 15 2016

Make Painting Great Again

Gagosian Gallery

Paris
Jun 01 2016 - Sep 17 2016

LEXICON

Gagosian Gallery

New York
Apr 02 2016 - May 03 2016

KRASDALE

Skarstedt

New York
Feb 25 2016 - Apr 16 2016

Nice Weather

Almine Rech

London
Feb 03 2016 - Mar 19 2016

In Different Ways
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