Since the mid-1960s, when he first began painting abstractly, Peter Bradley has treated color as a portal—an aperture onto another realm or a threshold to the sensorial. Made six decades later, the paintings in Burning On extend his pursuit of the ineffable while responding to the hues and vicissitudes of his surroundings. Pouring acrylic directly onto canvases laid flat on the ground, Bradley lets his compositions evolve organically. His forms are at turns liquid, translucent, and eddying, and at others crystallize into topographies. This suite of paintings extends his distinct visual language into vivid new terrain.
