Saturday, April 13, 2013

Pop Art: Bubble Wrap Paintings


Artist, Bradley Hart, takes creativity to a whole new level with his unique paintings that incorporates bubble wrap as a canvas. Hart, who lives in Toronto but works in New York City, creates portraits of celebrities by tediously injection acrylic paint into bubble wrap, thus creating a unique pixelated effect. On average, each painting takes about 150 hours. Hart admits that the process of injecting each bubble with paint is a daunting task – injecting too quickly could destroy the bubble while injecting too slow does not fill the bubble completely. It takes him two to three days just to load the paint into the 1200-1500 syringes that is needed to make one portrait.

Perhaps one of Hart’s most popular bubble wrap portrait is of the late Steve Jobs. Hart injected over 16,000 bubbles using 89 different colors of paint to create this one-of-a-kind portrait. Bradley Hart’s collection called “Injections” can be seen in person at Gallery Nine5 in New York. 




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