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Brad Nuorala’s works express the many surfaces and structures of the urban landscape. He finds inspiration in facades of old and new buildings, honing in on thresholds, doorways, windows, and perspectives. Pavement, roadways, and walls of buildings provide visual experiences that become “building blocks” for expression. As he explores the possibilities of creating images from these surfaces and architectural elements, Brad hopes to challenge the viewer to find pictorial unity within the various contrasts and tensions that prevail throughout the environments that we live in and experience every day.

Through his paintings, he explores and uses architectural shapes that play against surfaces and active brushwork, influenced by a variety of processes and techniques used to apply colour to canvas. Hard edges play against brushed and scraped surfaces, and the physical act of painting plays against more controlled painted lines and hard edges.