With Peter Bradley

Pioneering abstract artist and curator Peter Bradley reflects on life, art, and his artistic practice in this invigorating, intimate documentary portrait, mainly filmed around the nearly eighty-year-old Bradley’s New York farm, where he continues to create. Working on a canvas outside, he muses, “The seasons give me encouragement to work. . . . Changing color of leaves, what ice does. Everything changes every day. . . . It’s all about work every day.” Curator of the pioneering 1971 De Luxe Show in Houston, Texas, “one of the first racially integrated exhibits of contemporary artists in the United States,” the artist-at-heart Bradley “was abandoned in art’s critical hinterlands” (New York Times) before 2021 exhibitions returned his abstract, color-popped masterpieces to acclaim. “Documentary in its purest form: one subject speaking and showing us his life and work. It is riveting” (Film Threat). His 1972 painting Isom Dart 1 is currently on display in BAMPFA’s galleries.