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Katherine Bradford: Paintings
Edited with text by Dan Nadel. Text by Karen Wilkin, Arthur Bradford.
New York–based painter Katherine Bradford (born 1942) creates color-drenched scenes of swimming, water and gatherings of men and women, exploring how we see ourselves in relationship to each other with images that seem to generate their own milky and dreamlike light. Bradford spends months and sometimes years building up the surfaces of her paintings, slowly changing the paintings through repeated application of thinned-out acrylic paint. This book, her first monograph, collects her best paintings from 2015 to the present, alongside essays by Karen Wilkin, who explores Bradford's relationship to the history of American painting; Arthur Bradford, the painter's son, who contributes a memoir of his mother's coming of age, relatively late in life, as a painter; and Dan Nadel, who discusses the evolution of Bradford's current mode of painting and her relationship to her younger contemporaries at Canada gallery.
"Yellow Dress" (2018) is reproduced from 'Katherine Bradford: Paintings.'
"In 1980 our mother, Katherine Bradford, packed her ten‐year‐old twins into an old station wagon and left rural Maine to settle in New York City," writer and filmmaker Arthur Bradford writes in CANADA gallery's joy-giving Katherine Bradford: Paintings (the first monograph ever published on the artist, now in her seventies.) "It was a move us kids were firmly against. We found NYC dirty and confusing and we didn’t buy our mother’s assertion that this hassle was being undertaken for the benefit of our education. We sensed, even then, that this all had something to do with art…" Featured image is Roast (2016). Book launch is tonight (Friday, November 2) at Spoonbill Studio, Bushwick. continue to blog
Friday, November 2 from 6-8PM, Spoonbill Studio invites you to celebrate the publication of Katherine Bradford: Paintings at 99 Montrose Ave with a conversation between Katherine Bradford and her son, writer and filmmaker Arthur Bradford. Book signing to follow. continue to blog
FORMAT: Hbk, 8.25 x 10.5 in. / 144 pgs / 65 color. LIST PRICE: U.S. $40.00 LIST PRICE: CANADA $55 GBP £35.00 ISBN: 9781942884361 PUBLISHER: CANADA, New York AVAILABLE: 10/23/2018 DISTRIBUTION: D.A.P. RETAILER DISC: TRADE PUBLISHING STATUS: Out of stock indefinitely AVAILABILITY: Not available TERRITORY: WORLD
Published by CANADA, New York. Edited with text by Dan Nadel. Text by Karen Wilkin, Arthur Bradford.
New York–based painter Katherine Bradford (born 1942) creates color-drenched scenes of swimming, water and gatherings of men and women, exploring how we see ourselves in relationship to each other with images that seem to generate their own milky and dreamlike light. Bradford spends months and sometimes years building up the surfaces of her paintings, slowly changing the paintings through repeated application of thinned-out acrylic paint. This book, her first monograph, collects her best paintings from 2015 to the present, alongside essays by Karen Wilkin, who explores Bradford's relationship to the history of American painting; Arthur Bradford, the painter's son, who contributes a memoir of his mother's coming of age, relatively late in life, as a painter; and Dan Nadel, who discusses the evolution of Bradford's current mode of painting and her relationship to her younger contemporaries at Canada gallery.
