CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 11/2/2018

At last, '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.