Art Review
Beneath the Firmament of Katherine Bradford
In this show, the 83-year-old American artist touches on life, death, and mutual support in ways that feel more personal than ever.
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Katherine Bradford Is Just Getting Started
“I don't think anybody believed I could be an artist,” the 82-year-old painter told Hyperallergic in an interview.
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The Vulnerable Painterly Worlds of Katherine Bradford
In Bradford’s color-infused world of superheroes and swimmers, viewers and her figures bathe together outside of time and space.
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Katherine Bradford Mosaic Murals Make a Manhattan Subway Station Shine
You don't need a train ticket to see the five glass mosaic murals by Bradford at the L train 1 Avenue stop.
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Katherine Bradford's Joy and Grief
In her “Mother Paintings,” Bradford’s observations of life in a pandemic have merged with her interior world.
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Artists Quarantine With Their Art Collections
“When times are dark there is the inclination to want to give up. But the Dark Ages led to the Renaissance.”
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Artists Quarantine With Their Art Collections
“Ordinarily, I feel a sense of solidarity in isolation with other artists. I feel it even more during our enforced isolation.”
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The Amazing Katherine Bradford
Bradford's new paintings represent a significant departure from her previous work, which gained many admirers, myself included. Simply put: she has gotten much better at getting at difficult subjects.
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Updating Ruskin’s Sublime Landscape in the Age of the Anthropocene
New York University's Grey Gallery takes on the concept of the sublime in contemporary landscape art.
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Two Fresh Takes on Portraying Female Bathers in Art
Katherine Bradford and Jen DeNike remind me how much more there is to water in their gem-like show at AE2.
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The Nocturnal Worlds of Katherine Bradford
In this exhibition, it struck me that what Katherine Bradford keeps getting better at is incoherence: she can meld divergent details without coming across as contrived or arbitrary.
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Beer with a Painter: Katherine Bradford
“Jen! Welcome to Maine!” Katherine Bradford exclaims brightly as she spots me crossing the street.