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Samson Projects announces an exhibition of paintings by Katherine Bradford.
The work handles the classic unknown cosmic. That perpetual moment when thoughts get louder and mostly clearer.
“I paint invented scenes that have a dreamy, visionary quality. I want to capture the spirit of a quest, of community and, conversely, of quiet isolation.”
Perhaps more influenced by other paintings than by life itself? Colorful traveling and narrative wont/want with a penchant for contrast. Historically disjunct and slightly unexpected is fine. Groupings rescuing hopeful imagery and heightened moments of emotion.
The open air, land, ocean and corner as an optimistic space; A womb mode.
Katherine Bradford was born in New York, NY in 1942. She received a BA from Bryn Mawr College (Bryn Mawr, PA) and an MFA State University of New York (Purchase, NY). Bradford maintains studios in Brooklyn, NY and Brunswick, ME. Her work is in the collections of the Smith College Museum (Wellesley, MA), the Brooklyn Museum (Brooklyn, NY) and the Metropolitan Museum of Art (NY, NY). She currently has a solo exhibition at the University of Maine Museum (Bangor, ME) until October 1, 2008. Her work has most recently been included in exhibitions at the Brattleboro Museum of Art (Brattleboro, VT) and the P.S.1/MoMa Contemporary Art Center (Queens, NY). Bradford will be resident faculty at the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture next summer (2009).
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