Kip Bradley

Bio

J. Kip Bradley Is originally from N.H. and holds an MFA in Painting from the University of Florida. He is Adjunct Faculty of Foundations and Painting at the Savannah College of Art and Design and Armstrong Atlantic State University. Bradley is especially committed to community-based programs incorporating social outreach with the power of art. He exhibits work regionally and nationally. He describes his work as established conflicts between what is intuitively known and optically perceived, creating a destabilizing image. These images place the viewer in opposition to the continually decomposing logic.

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Artist Statement

These images are based in a simple contradictory structure of projective perspectival space to actual space and flat space to optical space. The painted striped geometric forms or projective planes suggest a horizonless, non-gravitational, and illusionist space within the bent and folded solid aluminum picture plane of reflected environmental light. While the sculptural and painted on aspects emphasize the flatness of the distorted picture plane, the reflected light and geometric forms create an optical and projective space.

Each element, of the painting, is only identifiable through its contradictory counterparts but all work together to create a simultaneous phenomenological experience of indeterminate multiplicity. The light reflections on the bent and folded metal create atmospheric spatial effects. These are more tangible when contrasted to the geometric forms. Material objects cannot exist without space and similarly space cannot be determined without material objects.
  
Through an established conflict between what is intuitively known and what is optically perceived I am able to create a destabilizing image. This image places the viewer in opposition to the continually self decomposing logic of the image. The paintings utilize a materialist language of object-hood while maintaining an inability to be perceptually possessed.

It is my desire to confront the viewer with the experience of this contradiction so that the individual is left to deal with the irresolution of his/her own existence.

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