Joe Bradley (artist)

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Joe Bradley (born 1975) is an artist based in New York City. He is also the former lead singer of the punk band Cheeseburger.^[1]

Early life and education[]

Joe Bradley was born 1975 in Kittery, Maine, US. The artist had his first gallery exhibition in New York after earning his BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1999. It was just three years later that he had his first solo museum show at MoMA PS1.^[2]

Career[]

Bradley makes casualist paintings resembling human figures from assembled canvases which reference Color Field painting and Minimalism.^[3][4] Bradley has said his work is "intentionally shoddy" and "pathetic" thanks in part to his use of flimsy shop-bought canvases, but he selects his colors and surface textures with care.^[5]

Bradley has developed a style of visual language that is fluid throughout both the art historical canon and the artist's personal experiences. Bradley continually reinvents his work in his paintings, drawings, and sculptures, with a profound fluency in iconic modes of art-making that allows him to elegantly move throughout Abstraction, Minimalism, and the gestural mark-making of Abstract Expressionism. Yet it is his awareness of both internal and external influences that frees him to take such ideas and make them all his own, never rooting himself in certainty. To him, the act of painting requires one to travel amongst the infinite conversations of painters past and present, frequently referencing what he calls the "shared space" of painting, an embracing of the relative nature of all visual art.

Bradley was represented by Gavin Brown's Enterprise (2011–2015)^[6] and Gagosian Gallery (2015–2021) before moving to Xavier Hufkens and Petzel Gallery in 2021.^[7] Bradley is also represented by Galerie Eva Presenhuber in Zurich.

Publications:

Bradley has been the subject of two publications at Petzel Gallery: Drawings (2014) and Joe Bradley (2017).^[8] Drawings (2014) is a collection of Bradley's drawings and "[charts] their evolution from starkly funny plays on Minimalism to cartoons to linear abstraction."^[9] Joe Bradley (2017) "presents the full range of Bradley's unique approach to language, abstraction and the evolutions of style."^[10]

Exhibitions[]

Bradley has presented numerous solo exhibitions including Time-Slip at Petzel Gallery, New York, US in 2021,^[11] Krasdale at Gagosian, New York, US ^[12] in 2016, and Schmagoo Paintings at Canada, New York, US in 2008.^[13]

Further solo exhibitions include:

2020

• Sub Ek, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, CH

2019

• Joe Bradley, GEP New York (with M. Williams & C. Dunham), New York, US

2018

• Drawings, Gagosian, Geneva, CH
• Day World, Gagosian, Grosvenor Hill, London, UK ^[14]
• The Brant Foundation, Greenwich, CT, US

2017

• Eric's Hair, Gagosian, Los Angeles, US
• The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, MA, US
• Peder Lund, Oslo, NO
• Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, US
• Château de Boisgeloup, Gisors, FR

2016

• Joe Bradley: Forty Four Drawings, Gagosian at Eden Rock, St. Braths, French West Indies
• Sculpture for Billy Hand, Neo Kastro, Antiparos, GR
• Canton Rose, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, CH
• Bozar / Center of Fine Arts, Brusseles, BE

2015

• Joe Bradley and Matt Connors: New York Painting, Kunstmuseum, Bonn, DE

2014

• The SS Potlicker and Friends, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, CH
• The Missus & Me, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Kastro, Antiparos, GR
• Skidoo, Karma, Amagansett, US
• Le Consortium, Dijon, FR
• Retrospective Gallery, Hudson, NY, US

2013

• Lotus Beaters, Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York, US^[15]

2012

• Pigpen, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, CH
• Epiphany, Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York, US

2011

• Drawings, The Journal Gallery, Brooklyn, US
• Works on Paper, Almine Rech, Paris, FR
• Duckling Fantasy, Almine Rech, Paris, FR
• Joe Bradley, Works on Paper, Almine Rech, Paris, FR
• Mouths and Foot Painting, Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York, US^[16]
• Human Form, Canada, New York, US^[17]

2010

• FREEKS, Peres Projects, Berlin, DE
• Joe Bradley and Chris Martin, Mitchell Innes & Nash, New York, US

2009

• Fortescue Avenue, Jonathan Viner, London, UK
• Eat at Joe's, Peres Projects, Berlin, DE
• Like a Turkey Through Corn, Peres Projects, Los Angeles, US

2007

• Knew Wurk, Greener Pastures Contemporary Art, Toronto, CD
• Joe Bradley and Sarah Braman, Dicksmith Gallery, London, UK

2006

• Kurgan Waves, Canada, New York, US^[18]
• MoMA PS1, Long Island City, US

2003

• Project Room, ConTEMPorary, New York, US

2002

• New Paintings, Allston Skirt Gallery, Boston, US

Bradley's major institutional group exhibitions include Joe Bradley, Oscar Tuazon, Michael Williams, The Brant Foundation Art Study Center, Greenwich, CT, US (2018); New York Painting, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, DE (2015); The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World, curated by Laura Hoptman, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, US (2014);^[19] and EXPO 1: NEW YORK, curated by Klaus Biesenbach, MoMA PS1, Long Island, NY, US (2013). Bradley's work was also included in Whitney Biennial 2008, curated by Henriette Huldisch and Shamim M. Momin, and overseen by Donna De Salvo, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, US (2008).^[20]

Art market[]

Bradley's work breached the $1 million mark in 2014, when one of his abstract paintings on drop cloth sold for over $1.5 million at Christie's London.^[21]

Personal life[]

Bradley is married to architect, designer, urbanist and thinker Valentina Akerman.^[22]

References[]