Bradford uses fragments of found posters, billboards, newsprint and custom - printed paper to simultaneously engage with and advance the formal traditions of abstract painting. (artbook.com)
A gorgeous flood of lilac splats hedonistically across «Kumari»; the painting's surround configuration of expressively handled discs of green, aquamarine and red, all on a volatile stained ground of yellow, places it in a well - established tradition of abstract paintings that read as cosmic metaphors (Pollock's drip paintings that were meant to mirror universal flux or more recently Julian Schnabel's blue splurge titled, tongue - in - cheek, «Portrait of God»). (johnhoyland.com)
Petra McCarthy's work is deliberately located within the expressionistic tradition of abstract painting. (rebeccahossack.com)