Bradley Hankey’s paintings are an homage to the vistas of Los Angeles but also about the universality of the experience of a moment in time and the value of recognizing beauty. We have all encountered that pause at a sunset or angles of shadows or city lights at night - that breathing space when we stop everything and exist in a singular moment.

The paintings develop slowly over time, with each painting consisting of many layers. The base layers are made up of thick, opaque applications of paint while transparent glazes making up the final layers. Hankey is hyper focused on color and mixes his own paints to be able to achieve the intensely specific hues he uses. Hankey uses the emotional response elicited by color to shape how the viewer experiences these moments.