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