Peter Bradley
(b. 1940)
Artworks by Peter Bradley
About Peter Bradley
Peter Bradley is an American painter and sculptor and former art dealer. He attended the Society of Arts and Crafts in Detroit and subsequently Yale University where he left prior to finishing the program. From his time as the Associate Director of Perls Gallery in New York, Bradley became acquainted not only with art historical icons such as Picasso and Braque, but also with leading figures in the field of contemporary art such as Clement Greenberg, Kenneth Noland, and Mark Rothko, who championed his experiments in abstraction. Bradley is known to have had a direct effect on the “New New Painters” movement, a group of nine core artists that developed in 1978, coinciding with the invention of acrylic gel paint with chemist Sam Golden.
Though Bradley has questioned his placement within the larger context of the Color Field movement, he has stated, “To me abstract painting is all about color. The main thing about making art and music is color. Color represents itself boldly and there’s all kinds of color in nature.” As we see in Bradley’s work, the ineffable wonders of the universe can be revealed to us through both abstraction and the powerful use of color.