Magic Breakfast Print Portfolio

American artist Katherine Bradford's Person with Colors (2024), edition of 75, shows a genderless figure whose torso, as well as the backdrop, is made up of rich multicolour stripes. Bradford repeatedly features swimmers and bodies of water in her paintings. Although these blocks or bands of colour signify a representational space – a pool, the ocean – they are also abstract fields of pigment, studies of colour and light. Their anonymity gives them an everyman quality. Printed in bright pinks, peaches, oranges and neon greens, they appear to glow from within, illuminating their backdrops.

Jordan Casteel sources her subject matter from her own photographs of the people of color who share and shape her environment. Sunset (2024), edition of 100, is a continuance of Casteel’s ongoing “subway” or “crop” series--each subject sourced from candid encounters on the NYC subway. An anonymous sitter in Sunset (2024) is composed with a palette that renders their skin tone with the vivid hues of dusk, seemingly bursting from a tie-dyed tank top at the core of the composition. Hand embellishing the screenprint with gouache, Casteel has used silver, gold, crimson, lilac and yellow to enhance various details within the frame.

Japanese artist Ulala Imai paints scenes drawn from both her familial life and popular culture. She works in her home, transforming her children’s toys, quotidian foods, and other household items into mysterious and lifelike subjects. For this whimsical print, Melody (2024), edition of 75, Imai revisits her series of still life paintings of a teddy bear paired with a banana. 

British painter Francesca Mollett uses paint to express an intimate, porous exchange between a human presence and more-than human bodies; water, stones, plants, weather. Blushed Hum (2024), edition of 75, is a return to a source/memory from Margate's coastal path, where water contained stillness and the surrounding chipped and chalky rock was the element carrying movement. Luminosity emits from the print, different speeds of colour occur, slow fades and then electric, unexpected, embedded moments of colour; they create a tonal hum.

Swiss-born artist Nicolas Party is primarily known for his colour-saturated paintings. Landscapes, portraits and still lifes of everyday objects, are all pared down to simple volumetric forms stripped of all extraneous detail. For this new print, Purple Fruits (2024), edition of 100, Party depicts a bowl of peaches which are transformed through an imaginative, vibrant use of colour, and composition.