KATHERINE BRADFORD

      

EDUCATION

 

MFA State University of New York, Purchase, NY

BA Bryn Mawr College, PA

 

AWARDS

 

2006  Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant Award, New York

2005  Purchase Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2008    University of Maine Museum of Art, Bangor, ME  

2007    Edward Thorp Gallery, NY  

2006    Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA

2005    Sarah Bowen Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

            Aucosisco Gallery, Portland, ME

2004    ICON Contemporary Art, Brunswick, ME

2002    Canaday Gallery, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA

2001    ICON Contemporary Art, Brunswick, ME

2000    Galapagos, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY

1999    ICON Contemporary Art, Brunswick, ME

1996    Farnsworth Museum, Rockland, ME

1994    David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY

1993    ICON Contemporary Art, Brunswick, ME

            Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA

1992    Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL

1991    Victoria Munroe Gallery, New York, NY

            Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

1990    Victoria Munroe Gallery, New York, NY

            Dean Valentgas Gallery, Portland, ME

1989    Victoria Munroe Gallery, New York, NY

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

 

2008    Worth a Thousand Words, Brattleboro Museum, VT

            Abstract Painting: Brooklyn, University of North Carolina, Pembroke, NC  

2007    Orpheus Selection, In Search of Darkness, curated by Phong Bui, P.S.1, Queens, NY

            Horizon, curated by David Humphrey, EFA Gallery, New York, NY

            Tiny, curated by Bruce Brown, Whitney Galleries, Portland, ME

2006-07  SEAWORTHY: A Nautical Selection from Minton to Mermaids, Edward Thorp Gallery, NY 

2006    New Work: Gallery Artists, Edward Thorp Gallery, NY

Everywhichway, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY

Déjà vu, curated by Faye Hirsch, Gallery 230, Brooklyn, NY

            Searching for Love and Fire, David Castillo Gallery, Miami, FLA

            Little Women, curated by James Kalm, Dam Stuhltrager, Brooklyn, NY

2005    Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, American Academy

of Arts and Letters, New York, NY

Summer Sustenance, A Gourmand’s Delight, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY

            New York’s Finest, Canada, New York, NY

           NADA Art Fair, ATM Gallery, Miami, FL

            Off the Coast:  A Landscape Chronology, The Collections Gallery, Bates

College Museum of Art, Lewiston, ME

            The Long View: Selections from the Norman B. Marin Collection, The

University of Maine Museum of Art, University of Maine, Bangor, ME

            Portland Museum Biennial, Portland Museum, Portland, ME

2004    Home, curated by Bruce Brown, D.U.M.B.O. Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY

Brooklyn, NY traveled to University of New England at Portland, ME

           Drawings, curated by Barry Blinderman and Annie Herron, University

Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal, IL, traveled to Carlsbad

Museum and Art Center, Carlsbad, NM

            Surrealist Drawings, Exquisite Corpses Today, Bowdoin College Art

Museum, Brunswick, ME

2003    The Lightness of Being, Black & White Gallery, New York, NY

            Water, Water, curated by Lilly Wei, Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

            Selections from the Pierogi Flat Files, curated by Joe Arnheim, USM

Art Gallery, University of Southern Maine, Gorham, ME

            Volatile Bodies, curated by Carrie Powers, University of the Arts,

Philadelphia, PA

2002     Project Room, Bill Maynes Gallery, New York, NY

            In the Spirit of Landscape, Neilson Gallery, Boston, MA

            Works on Paper, DFN Gallery, New York, NY

            Past Present Future, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME

            All Drawing, Gallery 831, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA

            The Brooklyn Rail Presents, curated by Phong Bui, Brooklyn, NY      

            Reactions, Exit Art, New York, NY

2001    Hidden Identity, Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY

            Wet!, Luise Ross Gallery, New York, NY

            Ripe and Hazy, Goliath Visual Space, Brooklyn, NY

           Domestic Culture, curated by Mark Bessire, Institute of Contemporary

Art at Maine College of Art, Portland, ME

2000    The Figure: Another Side of Modernism, Newhouse Center for

Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY

            Living Is Easy, Richard Anderson Gallery, New York, NY

            Lasting Impressions: Contemporary Prints from the Bruce Brown

Collection, The Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME

Homage to Albert Pinkham Ryder, curated by Phong Bui, State of the Art, Brooklyn, NY   

            On Paper: Bradford, Jacquette, Hildreth, Mayers, Maine Art Gallery,

Wiscasset, ME

1999    The Passion/Passions of Art, Richard Anderson Gallery, New York,

NY

            Group Show, Rebecca lbel Gallery, Columbus, OH

            Drawing Show, N3, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY

            The Flat Files, Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, University of the Arts,

Philadelphia, PA

            Invitational, Tig Fill Gallery, Cork, Ireland, UK

1998    Painting, N3, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY

            New York Drawers, Gasworks Gallery, London, England

            Pierogi Press, Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York, NY

            Six Chose Six, Purchase College, S.U.N.Y, Purchase, NY

            Ten from Brooklyn, Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA

 

1997    Current Undercurrent, Working in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum of Art,

Brooklyn, NY

            Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, The University of North

Carolina, Greensboro, NC

            Intimate Universe Revisited, Robert Steele Gallery, New York, NY

traveled to Nina Freidheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY

            Modern Prints, Colby College Museum of Art, Colby College,

Waterville, ME

            Relocating Landscape East and West, Caldwell College, Caldwell, NJ

1996    Gramercy International Art Fair, Bernard Toale Gallery, Gramercy

Park Hotel, New York, NY

            Grand Salon, Room, New York, NY

            Pet Paintings, Bernard Toale Gallery Boston, MA

1995    Other Rooms, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY

            Inaugural Show, Room, Thompson Street at Grand, New York, NY

            Group Show, Visual Arts Gallery at SUNY Purchase, Purchase College,

Purchase, NY

1994    Return of the Cadavre Exquis, The Drawing Center, New York, NY

            Small and Wet, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA

            Katherine Bradford and Frank Palaia, Hartman & White, San Diego, CA

1993    My/Self ...Your/Other: Contemporary Women Artists and the Issue of

Identity,” Castle Gallery, College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, NY

Childhood Show, Art in General, New York, NY

            Inaugural Show, The Painting Center, New York, NY

 1992   Invitational, David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY

            Relief Prints by 15 New York Artists, Michael Walls Gallery, New York,

NY

            Group Show, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL

             Intimate Universe: Small Scale Abstract Painting, Michael Walls Gallery

New York, NY

            Home/ A Visual Dialogue, Artspace, New Haven, CT

            Shifting Ground, Stephen Rosenberg Gallery, New York, NY

1991    American Art Today: New Directions, The Art Museum, FL

International University, Miami, FL  (catalogue, illustrated)

The Painters, Victoria Munroe Gallery, New York, NY

1990    Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North

Carolina At Greensboro, NC

            Sooner or Later, Edward Albee’s Eye, Hillwood Art Gallery, Long

Island University, C.W. Post Campus, Brookville, NY (catalogue, photo)

            New York Art 1990, Tyler Art Gallery, State University of New York,

Oswego, NY

            Selected Works on Paper, Victoria Munroe Gallery New York, NY

1989    Traditions in American Landscape, Portland Museum of Art,

Portland, ME

            Katherine Bradford, Ernest Briggs, Emily Nelligan, Anne Weber Gallery

Georgetown, ME

            Ten Artists, Ten Visions, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA

            Invitational, Condeso Lawler Gallery New York, NY

 

1988    Katherine Bradford, Laura Newman, Jean Feinberg, Elizebeth

Dworkin, Victoria Munroe Gallery New York, NY

Works on Paper, curated by Lyn Gumpert, University Gallery, University of Delaware, Newark, DE (catalogue)

Katherine Bradford/Don Voisine, Art Gallery, Kingsborough Community College, Brooklyn, NY

1987    Gallery Artists, Victoria Monroe Gallery New York, NY

            The Anti-Ego Show, Minor Injury Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, NY

Recent Painting and Sculpture, Visual Arts Gallery, State University of   New York at Purchase, NY

1986    Black and White Prevails: A Selection of Contemporary Drawings,

Miami-Dade Community College, Miami, FL (catalogue)

            Preludes, Victoria Munroe Gallery, New York, NY

   

 

COLLECTIONS

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Brooklyn Museum of Art

Portland Museum

Farnsworth Museum

Bates College Museum

Bowdoin College Museum

Smith College Museum

 

 

TEACHING

Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, MFA Faculty (1997 to present)

Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT), New York, NY, (1995 to present)

SUNY Purchase, Purchase, NY, (1994)

 

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

 

Albee, Edward. Sooner or Later: Edward Albee’s Eye, Brookville NY: Hillwood

Art Gallery, Long Island University, exhibition catalogue, 1990, pp. 8-9

(illustrated-color).

Artner, Alan. “Katherine Bradford Paintings,” CHICAGO TRIBUNE, February 6,

1992 (photo)    (photo)  Bonetti, David. Review, THE BOSTON PHOENIX, July 7,

1989.

Birnbaum, Molly. “Katherine Bradford at Edward Thorp Gallery” ARTnews summer 2007

Braff, Phyllis. “In the Choices of Albee, Imagination Prevails,” THE NEW YORK

TIMES, Sunday, February 11, 1990 (photo).

Carrier, David. “Katherine Bradford,” ART INTERNATIONAL, Spring, 1990

(photo).

Connor, Jill. “Nice and Wet,” Artnet.com Magazine Reviews, Spring, 2003.

Cyphers, Peggy. “Katherine Bradford,” ARTS MAGAZINE, January 1990 (photo).

Fleming, Lee. “Nothing but the Best,” THE WASHINGTON POST, February 12, 1994.

Fyfe, Joe. “Art Review,” Katherine Bradford at Sarah Bowen Gallery, ART IN

AMERICA, May 20,2005.

Greenleaf, Ken. Review: Farnsworth Art Museum, ART NEW ENGLAND,

October/November 1999 (photo).

Heartney, Eleanor. “American Art Today: New Directions” The Art Museum,

Florida International University, Miami, FL (Catalogue essay; illus. color).

Hirsch, Faye, catalogue essay, “Deja Vu,” Brooklyn, NY.

Holliday, Frank, “The Magic of Light at Night” GAY CITY NEWS, Jan 27-Feb2,

2005 (photo).

Johnson, Ken, “Summer Sustenance” THE NEW YORK TIMES, July 15, 2005.

Kalm, James, You Tube video “By Life and By Land at Edward Thorp Gallery” May 2007

Kalm, James.  “Katherine Bradford, Ether Nights” THE BROOKLYN RAIL, February 2005 (photo).

Kohen, Helen. “Review:’New Directions,’” THE MIAMI HERALD, January 13, 1991, (photo).

La Rocco, Ben, “Review, Home,” THE BROOKLYN RAIL,” April, 2004.

Licata, Elizabeth. “Small Wonders,” The Buffalo News, April 9,1993.

Lindall, Terrance. “Brooklyn Now,”  NY Arts Magazine, March, 2002  (photo).

Lombardi, Dominick D. “Inaugural exhibition for Gallery in Beacon,” THE NEW YORK TIMES, April  22,2001.

Maine, Stephen, “Ether Nights at Sarah Bowen Gallery” Artnet, February 2005

(photos).

Martin, Chris and Peter Acheson, Interview with Katherine Bradford, Brooklyn Rail, May 2007

Myles, Eileen. “Katherine Bradford at David Beitzel Gallery,” ART IN

AMERICA, June 1993 (photo).

THE NEW YORKER, Art Review, July 16, 2001.

NYARTS, “Water,Water Everywhere” April 14,2003.

Pleasants, Craig. `Ten from Brooklyn,” ART PAPERS MAGAZINE, July-August 1999.

Portland Museum of Art Biennial, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME

(exhibition catalogue, 2001), Exhibition Catalogue 2003, Exhibition

Catalogue 2005.    

 PRINT COLLECTOR’S NEWSLETTER. “Katherine Bradford Monotypes,” May/June 1993

Raynor, Vivien. “Grappling with Feminism and Femininity,” THE NEW YORK TIMES, March 21, 1993, (photo)

Servetar, Stuart. “Review,” NY PRESS, September 13, 1995.

Smith, Roberta. “Katherine Bradford,” THE NEW YORK TIMES, Friday, October 27, 1989.

Stapen, Nancy. “Painters Stretch the Possible,” THE BOSTON GLOBE, November 11, 1993.

Thompson, Chris, Bradford’s Swim Paintings at Aucocisco,” Phoenix, May

20-26, 2005(photo).

Thompson, Chris, “Review,” ART NEW ENGLAND, Nov 2003.

Tate, Haines Sprunt. “New Farnsworth Show Explores Harmony and Dissonance,” MAINE TIMES, April 1, 1996 (photo).

Taylor, Robert. “DeCordova Summer Show Has Questing Spirit,” THE BOSTON

GLOBE, July 16, 1989.

Wei, Lilly. ‘The Figure, Another Side of Modernism,” Snug Harbor Cultural

Center, Newhouse Center  for Contemporary Art, Staten Island, NY (catalogue

essay, 2000; p. 7,46,161,205, illustrated, color).

Westfall, Stephen. “Katherine Bradford,” ART IN AMERICA, May 1990 (photo).

Yau, John. “Katherine Bradford at Edward Thorp Gallery” Brooklyn Rail, June 2007

 

 

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