Art Exhibition at CES Gallery

May 5-28 2017, Los Angeles CA



Last Friday my latest art work was premiered at the CES Gallery in Los Angeles. The art work is part of “The Hundred Cold Ages of Sea Wind” series that I have developed over last five years.



After a period of relative success in Santa Barbara, I stopped showing my work. A kind of self-imposed exile while I was striving to reach the height that I knew I could and giving birth to something new. It started lightly but then it became a journey of its own that gave me a tremendous joy. This current show was the idea of my wife, Pari. She inspired me and took me out of my cave back into the light. Here is our conversation:

Pari: How do you balance intention and spontaneity in your work?

Brad: The intention exists in consciously creating rhythmic patterns and a palette or family of related colors with a general idea of how the surface will play out. When the juxtaposition of the various layers are employed relationships emerge which often unforeseen and unplanned and lead the painting in a new direction.

Pari: What most inspires your work?

Brad: Beautiful thought provoking paintings.

Pari: How did years of formal education support you?

Brad: After seven years in art school and learning a very important broad foundation of techniques and styles, my three years studying with early pioneer abstract painter Peter Krasnow in his studio were the most valuable.

Pari: How do you define your work and what stages has it gone?

Brad: Through the paintings exist in a painterly abstract school of thought based on perceptual and tactile qualities. there have been many explorations in my search ,always arriving back at this familiar territory.

Pari: What part of the process do you find most exciting?

Brad: The moment during the painting process when the multiple layers seem to take on an independent existence and dictate their own direction.

What would you want your audience to take away after viewing the paintings?

Brad: Hopefully they would awaken a sense the ineffable and the mystery and paradox of being.