The Trophy Room LA is thrilled to present Prochromatism, a solo exhibition by Los Angeles-based artist J Bradley Greer and Portraits, a solo exhibition by Los Angeles-based artist Patrick Pipkin-Arnold, concurrently, at the gallery to kick off the Fall season.
Drawing variously from his mother’s Mormon quilting tradition, DIY punk and hardcore culture, and modernist painting, Pipkin-Arnold’s “Portraits” are surprising windows into domestic moments. The influence of his craft and ceramic practices gives Pipkin-Arnold a slow, personal and holistic approach to his subjects, which are thoughtfully distilled and rendered in simplified shapes.
Greer’s often whimsical paintings show exuberant proliferations of biomorphic shapes and serial, geometric forms that slyly reference human anatomy. The show’s title itself is a fusion of theory and flesh, a combination of the words “procreation” and “chromatic”—a reference to the shapes and colors that seem to spawn across the artist’s canvases.