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The Vulnerable Painterly Worlds of Katherine Bradford

Avatar photo by Hrag Vartanian September 8, 2022November 9, 2022

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

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia September 23, 2021September 23, 2021

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

by John Yau May 1, 2021April 30, 2021

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

by Stephen Maine August 29, 2020November 5, 2020

“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

by Stephen Maine May 2, 2020May 22, 2020

“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

by John Yau September 30, 2018September 28, 2018

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

by Marjorie Backman July 2, 2018July 3, 2018

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

Avatar photo by Daniel Gerwin February 7, 2018February 6, 2018

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

by John Yau January 22, 2017January 19, 2017

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

by Jennifer Samet September 17, 2016September 16, 2016

“Jen! Welcome to Maine!” Katherine Bradford exclaims brightly as she spots me crossing the street.

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Katherine Bradford Dives In

by John Yau January 17, 2016January 24, 2016

I certainly wasn’t the only person to be dazzled by Katherine Bradford’s breakthrough show, Desire for Transport, at Edward Thorp, nearly a decade ago.

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Colorful Contemporary Art Books for Kids

Avatar photo by Allison Meier September 28, 2015

“There are many art books for children that feature Old Masters work, which is great, but we wanted to go in a different direction,” Jessica Brown, creative director of Home Grown Books, said of the publisher’s new Mini Museum Series.

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