Topical Cream is pleased to announce artist, writer, and editor Paige K. Bradley as Deputy Editor. Bradley will oversee editorial workflows and commissioning across Topical Cream’s digital and print platforms, collaborating with their Editor-in-Residence and contributors to develop and edit features and guiding projects from commission through publication. Bradley will also contribute to the magazine’s editorial and public programming, print production, and communications in support of its mission. She has more than thirteen years of experience in art publishing and editorial work, including as Associate Editor at Artforum, Arts Editor at GARAGE, and Editorial Writer at Christie’s. She has edited and contributed to books and exhibition catalogues for institutions, galleries, and publishers including Blank Forms, Swiss Institute, Karma, The George Economou Collection, and Phaidon, and is the author of Suellen Rocca: In Dreams, The Last Works (Matthew Marks, 2022), Drive It All Over Me (S*I*G-Verlag, 2023), as well as a collaborator on Bad Driver (mfc-michèle didier / FRAC Lorraine, 2024) with artists Jay Chung & Q Takeki Maeda. Her critical writing has appeared in Topical Cream, Now Voyager, Artforum, The New York Review of Books, Texte zur Kunst, Frieze, CULTURED, Spike, Viscose Journal, New York Review of Architecture, Bookforum, The Whitney Review of New Writing, i-D, Triple Canopy, SSENSE, and numerous other publications.

“I’m so pleased to be joining a publishing operation where women and gender non-conforming talent are respected, valued, and prioritized—not only in what we contribute to the visual arts field, but in the structures and organizations that shape it as well. Too often, the rhetoric of the art world stands in stark contrast to how its practitioners are treated by the institutions and businesses that support or work with them. I’m aligned with Topical Cream in seeking to put our values into practice,” said Paige K. Bradley, Topical Cream’s Deputy Editor.

“I think what I love about Paige most is that she is, first and foremost, an artist, and she brings a particular sensitivity, thoughtfulness, and creative perspective to this role that we’re really excited about. She’s also incredibly flexible and, importantly, not afraid of the day-to-day realities of nonprofit life. Making things happen isn’t just about ideas—it’s about figuring out how to bring those ideas into the real world. Paige understands both sides of that equation. She is able to think deeply and creatively while also rolling up her sleeves and doing the work required to make things happen. We’re incredibly excited to have someone who brings both of those qualities to Topical Cream,” emphasized Topical Cream Founder and Director Lyndsy Welgos (she/her). 

Paige K. Bradley is a Los Angeles–born, New York–based artist, writer, and editor whose interdisciplinary practice encompasses installation, painting, drawing, sculpture, embroidery, and writing. Her work has been presented in solo exhibitions at galleries and projects spaces throughout New York and in the institutional exhibition CUTE at Somerset House, London, and Kunsthal Rotterdam; she also contributed to Canal Street Research Association’s installation for the 2021–22 edition of Greater New York at MoMA PS1 and presented the Gramercy International Prize–winning presentation at the thirtieth-anniversary edition of The Armory Show. She recently completed an Elaine G. Weitzen ISP Studio Program Fellowship in the Whitney Independent Study Program and has lectured on or read her work at Barnard College, Artists Space, EARTH, The Drawing Center, McNally Jackson, BANK/MAB Society, and on Montez Press Radio.