On Saturday, August 16th, Louis and Marie-Caroline Caiola hosted an end of summer soiree at their stunning Water Mill home to toast New York based artist Bradley Hart, who uses high tech and low tech processes and every day material to create traditional forms of sculpture and painting. A conceptual materialist, Hart is greatly interested in process, using multiple mediums to realize a piece that may include computer algorithms, 3D printing, print-making, casting and intricate work done by hand. Guests sipped signature cocktails at sunset and snacked on farm to table summer bites prepared by private chef Jackie McKay.

Hart shares, “I’m interested in narrative, storytelling and memory and their relationship to the materiality of a piece. My current work is a series of photorealistic portraits and cityscapes using bubble wrap in various processes to convey ideas of the plasticity and recyclability of memory, and the fragility of individual narratives.  The choice of these specific portraits and cityscapes that comprise this series is my personal choice of memories and people at a particular place and time. Many of the portraits are artist friends of mine and the cityscapes are of particular memories of trips I’ve taken or lived.”

The bare bubbles in the bubble wrap reference dots or pixels echoing moments in art and modern society including pointillism, screen-printing, TVs and LCD monitors. In today’s world people do not print their pictures for an album, their albums are on Facebook, Flickr and Instagram, etc.  Hart says, “The process of the injection of paint into bubble wrap is like degrading memory. From far away the memory seems clear, and as we move closer it degrades and the memory is lost and/or degraded.”

Dr. Mark Kot and Louis Caiola

Rita Schrager checks out Kurt Cobains portrait

Jennifer and Geoff Ringelstein

“A photograph helps us consolidate our memory, to keep a stable, constructed memory that cannot be undone. Memory however is plastic in nature. We reconstruct our memory each time we remember and reconstruct it differently each time. The bubble wrap preserves the fragility of the memory and at the same time is a reconstruction and plastic,” shares Bradley.

Marie-Caroline Caiola and her gorgeous mother.

* The show was curated by James Greenberg, and for more information about the artist, please go to:  www.zgadvisory.com

The artist Bradley Hart in studio