Events
Online Reading
Joe Bradley
Eric’s Hair
Joe Bradley: Eric’s Hair is available for online reading from August 12 through September 10 as part of the From the Library series. The catalogue was published for an exhibition at Gagosian, Beverly Hills, in 2017 and features new paintings and sculpture by Joe Bradley. Weaving together both ironic and earnest cultural references and engagements with the tradition and aesthetics of paint on canvas, Bradley’s maverick oeuvre is built on a diverse and deadpan visual language that defies easy categorization. In these works, Bradley tempers the use of color in bold primary swaths with approaches to form and surface that remain resolutely contingent. The publication includes a text by Laura Hoptman.
Joe Bradley: Eric’s Hair (Beverly Hills: Gagosian, 2019)
Tour
American Pastoral
Thursday, March 5, 2020, 6:30pm
Gagosian, Britannia Street, London
Join Gagosian for a tour of the group exhibition American Pastoral. The show juxtaposes modern and contemporary works with historical American landscapes ranging from Albert Bierstadt’s depiction of the sublime in Sunset over the River (1877) to Edward Hopper’s tranquil seaside scene, Gloucester Harbor (1926). Gagosian’s Alice Godwin will focus on a select grouping of exhibited works that seek to challenge the idealized vision of the American Dream that has long been a rich topic of inquiry for artists in the United States. To attend the free event, RSVP to londontours@gagosian.com. Space is limited.
Installation view, American Pastoral, Gagosian, Britannia Street, London, January 23–March 14, 2020. Artwork, left to right: © Theaster Gates, © Adam McEwen, Thomas Moran, © Richard Prince, © Banks Violette, © Ed Ruscha. Photo: Lucy Dawkins
Exhibition
The Extreme Present
Opening reception: Tuesday, December 3, 5–8pm
December 4–8, 2019
Moore Building, Miami
Gagosian is pleased to announce The Extreme Present, the fifth in a series of annual exhibitions at the Moore Building in the Miami Design District during Art Basel Miami Beach, presented by Gagosian and Jeffrey Deitch. The Extreme Present will explore artists’ reactions to the conditions of our accelerating and increasingly complex world. The title is inspired by The Age of Earthquakes: A Guide to the Extreme Present, a book by Shumon Basar, Douglas Coupland, and Hans Ulrich Obrist, published in 2015. Their provocative thesis addresses the rapidly evolving digital era, half a century after Marshall McLuhan’s groundbreaking study on technology’s influence on culture, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, in which he coined the phrase “the medium is the message.” Works in this exhibition explore concepts of media, communication, togetherness, and isolation.
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The Extreme Present
Visit
Gagosian at Galeries Lafayette Champs-Élysées
Opening reception: Saturday, October 12, 6:30–8pm
October 12–20, 2019
Galeries Lafayette Champs-Élysées, Paris
galerieslafayettechampselysees.com
In celebration of FIAC in Paris, Gagosian is pleased to collaborate with Galeries Lafayette Champs-Élysées on a two-floor pop-up takeover featuring products related to Gagosian artists. On the first floor, the Coin Culture section will feature catalogues, posters, apparel, and audio productions. The second floor, the Library, will house an additional selection of limited-edition books, publications, and catalogues raisonnés.
Download the full press release in English (PDF) or French (PDF)
Gagosian at Galeries Lafayette Champs-Élysées, Paris, 2019
Fundraiser
Drawing Center
2019 Benefit Auction + Party
Thursday, September 19, 2019, 6:30–9:30pm
Drawing Center, New York
drawingcenter.org
The Drawing Center’s annual Benefit Auction + Party takes place on Thursday, September 19, with an evening of music and cocktails, and a silent auction featuring works generously donated by over forty leading artists, including Joe Bradley, John Currin, Rudolf Stingel, and Mary Weatherford. Funds raised through this event provide crucial support for the Drawing Center’s ambitious roster of exhibitions, publications, education initiatives, and public programs. To attend the event, purchase tickets at www.drawingcenter.org.
John Currin, Untitled, 2015 © John Currin
Artist Talk
Joe Bradley
Thursday, January 25, 2018, 6:30pm
Rose Art Museum, Waltham, Massachusetts
www.brandeis.edu/rose
Joe Bradley will discuss his art and practice in relation to his mid-career retrospective, which is on view at the Rose through January 28. To attend the free event, RSVP at www.facebook.com.
Installation view, Joe Bradley, Rose Art Museum, Waltham, Massachusetts, October 15, 2017–January 28, 2018
Museum Exhibitions
Closed
Joe Bradley, Oscar Tuazon, Michael Williams
May 14–September 18, 2018
Brant Foundation Art Study Center, Greenwich, Connecticut
brantfoundation.org
The Brant Foundation’s spring exhibition will feature work by Joe Bradley, Oscar Tuazon, and Michael Williams.
Joe Bradley, JJ Ram, 2018 © Joe Bradley
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Joe Bradley
October 15, 2017–January 28, 2018
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts
www.brandeis.edu
This is the first large-scale museum exhibition in North America devoted to the work of Joe Bradley. Included are his expressionistic canvases that record the detritus and spontaneity of the studio environment; subtly figurative send-ups of Minimalist painting; starkly primitive glyphs drawn in grease pencil on unprimed canvas and related drawings on paper; graphic silkscreen paintings; and modular Minimalist aluminum sculptures that Bradley pairs with textual directives. The exhibition traveled from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York.
Joe Bradley, Bishop, 2016
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Animal Farm
May 14–October 1, 2017
Brant Foundation Art Study Center, Greenwich, Connecticut
brantfoundation.org
Animal Farm is a group exhibition curated by artist and musician Sadie Laska. A selection of works sketch a story that slides from figurative iconography to totemic abstraction, charting a world in churn; in print, in space, and on canvas. The show includes work by Jean-Michel Basquiat and Joe Bradley.
Joe Bradley, Pigpen (#2), 2010
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Joe Bradley
June 24–October 1, 2017
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
www.albrightknox.org
This is the first large-scale museum exhibition in North America devoted to the work of Joe Bradley. Included are his expressionistic canvases that record the detritus and spontaneity of the studio environment; subtly figurative send-ups of Minimalist painting; starkly primitive glyphs drawn in grease pencil on unprimed canvas and related drawings on paper; graphic silkscreen paintings; and modular Minimalist aluminum sculptures that Bradley pairs with textual directives.
Joe Bradley, Good World, 2017
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The Forever Now
Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World
December 14, 2014–April 5, 2015
Museum of Modern Art, New York
www.moma.org
Forever Now presents the work of seventeen artists whose paintings reflect a singular approach that characterizes our cultural moment at the beginning of the new millennium: they refuse to allow us to define or even meter our time by them. They represent a wide variety of styles and impulses, but all use the painted surface as a platform, map, or metaphoric screen on which genres intermingle, morph, and collide. Work by Joe Bradley, Mark Grotjahn, and Mary Weatherford is included.
Mary Weatherford, la noche, 2014 © Mary Weatherford. Photo: Fredrik Nilsen Studio