Katherine Bradford

Katherine Bradford
Bradford in 2021
Born1942
New York City, United States
EducationSUNY Purchase, Bryn Mawr College
Known forPainting
StyleFigurative art
Spouses
ChildrenArthur Bradford, Laura Bradford
AwardsJohn S. Guggenheim Fellowship, Joan Mitchell Foundation, American Academy of Arts and Letters, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Rappaport Foundation Prize

Katherine Bradford (born 1942), née Houston,[1] is an American artist based in New York City, known for figurative paintings, particularly of swimmers, that critics describe as simultaneously representational, abstract and metaphorical.[2][3][4][5] She began her art career relatively late and has received her widest recognition in her seventies.[6][7][8] Critic John Yau characterizes her work as independent of canon or genre dictates, open-ended in terms of process, and quirky in its humor and interior logic.[9][2]

Bradford has exhibited internationally, at venues including MoMA PS1,[10] Campoli Presti (London and Paris),[11] Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth,[12] Brooklyn Museum, Crystal Bridges Museum, and Tomio Koyama (Tokyo).[13][14] She has received awards from the John Simon Guggenheim, Joan Mitchell and Pollock-Krasner foundations and the American Academy of Arts and Letters.[15][16][17][18] Her work belongs to public art collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum, Dallas Museum of Art, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, and Menil Collection, among others.[19][20][21][22]

Bradford lives with her spouse Jane O'Wyatt, in New York City and Brunswick, Maine, and works out of a studio in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.[23][24]

  1. ^ Miss Houston. The Greenville News, 25 Feb 1968, p. 28. Retrieved 2021-04-29.
  2. ^ a b Yau, John. "The Bigger Picture, Bradford’s Museum Exhibit at Bowdoin College," Hyperallergic, August 25, 2013. Retrieved April 2, 2020.
  3. ^ Wei, Lilly. "Katherine Bradford: Friends and Strangers," The Brooklyn Rail, October 2018. Retrieved April 6, 2020.
  4. ^ Cohen, David. "New Hero," artcritical, May 26, 2012. Retrieved April 2, 2020.
  5. ^ Johnson, Ken. "Everywhichway," The New York Times, July 7, 2006. Retrieved April 2, 2020.
  6. ^ Panero, James. "Gallery Chronicle (February 2016)," The New Criterion, February 2016. Retrieved April 6, 2020.
  7. ^ Zevitas, Steven. "15 Artists to Watch in 2015 (+3)," Huffington Post, December 12, 2014. Retrieved April 6, 2020.
  8. ^ Belcove, Julie L. "Katherine Bradford," Elle Décor, July–August 2017, p. 58–9.
  9. ^ Yau, John. "No More Garden Variety Avant-Garde Has-Beens," Hyperallergic, April 22, 2012. Retrieved April 2, 2020.
  10. ^ MoMA PS1. "Orpheus Selection: In Search of Darkness," Exhibitions. Retrieved April 6, 2020.
  11. ^ Hunt, Andrew. ["Katherine Bradford, Campoli Presti London,"] Artforum, October 1, 2019. Retrieved March 2, 2022.
  12. ^ Blair, Michael Frank. "Katherine Bradford at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth," Glasstire, December 9, 2017. Retrieved March 2, 2022.
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  14. ^ Abrams, Loney. "'I'm not going to fool around': An Interview with Painter Katherine Bradford," Artspace, July 12, 2019. Retrieved March 2, 2022.
  15. ^ Artforum. "2011 Guggenheim Fellows Announced," News, April 7, 2011. Retrieved April 6, 2020.
  16. ^ Joan Mitchell Foundation "Katherine Bradford," Artist Grants. Retrieved April 2, 2020.
  17. ^ Pollock-Krasner Foundation. "Katherine Bradford," Artists. Retrieved April 6, 2020.
  18. ^ American Academy of Arts and Letters. "Katherine Bradford." Retrieved April 6, 2020.
  19. ^ Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Katherine Bradford," Collection. Retrieved April 6, 2020.
  20. ^ Brooklyn Museum. "Katherine Bradford," Collection. Retrieved April 6, 2020.
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  22. ^ Portland Art Museum. "Katherine Bradford," Online Collections. Retrieved April 6, 2020.
  23. ^ Konau, Britta. "The Humor and Humanity of Katherine Bradford, Part 1," The Free Press (Maine), October 24, 2012. Retrieved April 2, 2020.
  24. ^ McMahon, Katherine. Habitat: Fair Thee Well—Visits With Artists in Their Studios Before Independent New York," ARTnews, March 2, 2017. Retrieved April 6, 2020.