Bradley Wester’s work has been included in numerous exhibitions at New York-area galleries and at museums and exhibition spaces throughout the US including: The Drawing Center of New York, Artists Space, The New Jersey State Museum, New Orleans Contemporary Arts Center, the Newark Museum, the Mississippi State Museum, and The Madison Art Center. Wester has A BFA from the University of Southwestern Louisiana and an MFA from the Mason Gross School Of The Arts, Rutgers University . In 2003 he received a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant and was a visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome . A native of New Orleans , he lives and works in New York City .

Wester mines the stationery store for his source material— cheap, colorful labels and stickers that he transforms into complex abstract formations. With this limited vocabulary of simple shapes and lines he constructs a surprisingly wide range of compositions with multiple references including Japanese Anime, the Modernist grid, computer circuitry, the geometry of mandalas and architectural plans. Exploring their formal qualities Wester transforms common stickers and labels into unique works of beauty that at the same time offer a blithe commentary on a society obsessed with labels.

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