Lisa Bradley Moves Beyond Luminosity at the Delaware Art Museum
The Delaware Art Museum presents the artist’s newest body of work in a solo exhibition spanning recent large-scale paintings and early works on paper.
The Delaware Art Museum is proud to present Lisa Bradley: Beyond Luminosity, opening September 19, 2026. Beyond Luminosity offers a new opportunity to engage with Bradley’s most recent body of work, presented publicly for the first time. The exhibition is organized by DelArt Head Curator and Curator of Contemporary Art Margaret Winslow and Art Bridges Fellow Hilda Delgado.
“We are rewarded with each encounter, suspended in a luminous field of color,” says Winslow, reflecting on Bradley’s work.
Bradley translates the mysterious into the physical with intimate marks and sweeping gestures. As an artist working within the field of abstraction, Bradley has contributed to its evolving history. Art historian Carter Ratcliff describes her work as depicting “a pause between the pulses of some vast and luminous energy.”
The artist’s career is one that has endured beyond trends and common tropes, representing a breakthrough in the field of abstract painting. Bradley’s work is informed by a strong interest in spiritual experience. In her luminous paintings, she achieves an expression of simultaneous movement and stillness, creating a feeling of suspended time.
DelArt invites audiences to experience new work by contemporary artists through exhibitions that offer fresh perspectives and deepen connections to the Museum’s collection. Lisa Bradley: Beyond Luminosity builds on this commitment, presenting 10 large-scale paintings and eight works on paper in DelArt’s solo exhibition of Bradley’s work. The presentation also extends the Museum’s longstanding connection to the artist. Bradley’s Akasa II entered DelArt’s collection in 2009 and, over the past 15 years, has been a regular presence in the galleries, captivating visitors of all ages and becoming a beloved piece in the contemporary collection.
A complementary 120-page monograph features insights from prominent curators, critics, and art historians.
Learn more at delart.org.
