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Dove Bradshaw    (American, 1949)

 Dove Bradshaw - <b>(A)claimed Object</b> (Photographs)
Dove Bradshaw
(A)claimed Object 1979
 
 Dove Bradshaw - <b>2/0</b> (Prints)
Dove Bradshaw
2/0 1971
 
 Dove Bradshaw - <b>Angles VII</b> (Paintings)
Dove Bradshaw
Angles VII 2004
 
 Dove Bradshaw - <b>Angles XIII</b> (Paintings)
Dove Bradshaw
Angles XIII 2004
 
 Dove Bradshaw - <b>Antarctica</b>: white salt from McMurdo Bay (Installations)
Dove Bradshaw
Antarctica: white salt from McMurdo Bay 2005
 
 Dove Bradshaw - <b>Australia</b>: white salt from Western Australia, with a view into the Second Room, 'Angles' paintings
Dove Bradshaw
Australia: white salt from Western Australia, with a view into the Second Room, "Angles" paintings 2005
 
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Biography
Dove Bradshaw was born in 1949 in New York City where, with some education in England, residencies and travel abroad, she continues to live and work. Beginning in 1969, she pioneered the use of indeterminacy in sculpture, painting, performance and film. By persistently relinquishing control, she took Conceptual Art in a sensuous direction. Her early fusion of scientific exploration with art practice has anticipated activities of later generations by several decades. These prescient impulses have come to be broadly embraced in the Science/Art movement, "weathering" works and the genre lately termed museum interventions. Some of her gestures toward indeterminacy have embraced the chance positioning of work, the use of materials particularly susceptible to weather and indoor atmosphere, the unpredictability of birds, the gradual erosion of water, or the use of inherently unstable substances such as acetone, mercury and sulfur. Time is no less significant a factor. She has said "Poetry is everywhere evident and therefore one only need present materials."

John Cage, a long time champion, talked about her work with Thomas McEvilley in Dove Bradshaw, Works, 1969-1993, which was republished in McEvilley’s Sculpture in the Age of Doubt, 1999 and in a current monograph The Art of Dove Bradshaw, Nature Change and Indeterminacy, published in 2003 by Batty Publisher, LLC. Mr. McEvilley wrote the text for this monograph. Cage selected her to accompany him in his 1991 Carnegie International presentation and she was represented in Cage’s similarly scored Rolywholyover Circus, 1993-5, which consisted of his selection of Twentieth Century works. Appointed in 1984 as Artistic Advisor for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, she designed sets, costumes and lighting for a decade of the company’s stage and television productions around the world. She has had two mid-career exhibitions, one at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles in 1998 and one titled Dove Bradshaw, Formformlessness, Baruch College, City University of New York in 2003. Her work is represented in the permanent collections of the major museums both here as well as in Europe and Russia and she has shown regularly in the US, Europe and Asia.


Exhibitions
2008 Time Matters, catalogue; Pierre Menard Gallery, Cambridge, MA, 40 works over 39 years, mid-career exhibition
2008 Radio Rocks, Limited Edition Portfolio; Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
2008 Quick Constructions and Radio Contingency Jets, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
2007 Contingency, Björn Ressle Gallery, New York
2007 Time & Material, catalogue, Senzatitolo, Rome
2007 Constructions, Zero Space, Zero Time, Infinite Heat, catalogue, The Spirit of Discovery 2, Trancoso, Portugal
2006 Six Continents, "Trace of Mind", catalogue; 6th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea (Six Continents)
2006 The Way, Gallery 360°, Tokyo
2006 Radio Rocks, permanent installation commissioned by the Baronessa Lucrezia Durini for the town of Bolognano, Italy
2005 Six Continents, Solway Jones Gallery, Los Angeles (solo)
2005 Six Continents and Angles, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia (solo)
Shering Gallery, Berlin
Anastasi Bradshaw Cage Cunningham, The Bayly Art Museum, U. of Virginia, Charlottesville, travels to The Art Museum, U. of California at San Diego, October
2004 Dove Bradshaw, Nature Change and Indeterminacy, Volume Gallery, New York (solo)
The Invisible Thread, Buddhist Spirit in Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor, New York
2004 Angles, Diferenca Gallery, Lisbon (solo)
2003 Dove Bradshaw Formformlessness 1969-2003, A mid-career exhibition, The Sidney Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College, CUNY (solo)
2001 Waterstones, Stark Gallery, New York (solo)
2001 Elements, Stalke Gallery, Copenhagen (solo)
Anastasi Bradshaw Cage, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde, Denmark
2000 Dove Bradshaw, 'Waterstones', Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia (solo)
1999 Negative Ions, Mattress Factory Museum, New York (solo)
1998 Dove Bradshaw, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (solo)
1998 Irrational Numbers, Sandra Gering Gallery and Linda Kirkland Gallery, N Y (solo)
1998 Paintings, Barbara Krakow, Boston (solo)
1996 Contingency, Stalke Gallery, Copenhagen (solo)
1995 Time, Memory, and the Limits of Photography, Center of Photography at Woodstock Woodstock, NY
1995 Vital Matrix, Domestic Setting Los Angeles
1995 depart, Bernard Toale Gallery Boston
1995 Indeterminancy, Sandra Gering Gallery NY (solo)
1995 Indeterminacy, Pier Center, Orkney, Scotland (solo)
1994 Inteterminancy with William Anastasi, Werner H. Kramarsky NY (two person show)
1994 Contingency, William Anastasi, Sandra Gering Gallery NY (two person show)
1994 Painting in Transition, Aldrich Museum Ridgefield, CT
1993 William Anasrasi Drawing Sounds: An installation in honor of John Cage, The Philadelphia Museum of Art
1993 Rolywholyover, A Circus, Traveling Exhibition
1993 Concurrencies II, William Patterson College New Jersey
1993 Contingency, Sandra Gering Gallery NY
1993 Montgomery Glasoe Fine Art Minneapolis, Minnesota
1991 Contingency, Sandra Gering Gallery NY (solo)
1990 Plain Air, The Mattress Factory Pittsburgh, PA
1990 Plain Air, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York (solo)
1989 Plain Air, Sandra Gering Gallery NY
1989 Stalke Gallery Copenhagen (solo)
1988 Sandra Gering Gallery NY (solo)
1988 Utica College, Syracuse University Utica, NY (solo)
1984 Works 1969-1984, Utica College, Syracuse University Utica, NY (solo)
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