Context

Katherine Bradford – American Odyssey
New works 

Slide show

Katherine Bradford’s thinking always begins with color — it is the start and end point of her work. Here abstract and figurative approaches merge. Here the individual and the communal join. This is the common ground that is explored and formulated anew in every work. Especially in her representations of communities, the direct, crude, and fundamental power, radiance, and potential of color has great significance. The artist further strongly associates color and community with the community of artists that assembles constantly around painting and its histories and stories. In Bradford’s practice, the three terms community, painting, and color act more or less as synonyms, which says much about her artistic work that proceeds from the solitude of daily labor always to gaze at her world, and to work on this with her means in the field of painting. – Sandro Droschl, curator

Katherine Bradford, Figure Walking Out to Sea (detail), 2024

Acrylic on canvas, 203,2 × 172,7 cm

Courtesy of the artist and kaufmann repetto Milan / New York; photo: kun​st​-doku​men​ta​tion​.com

Katherine Bradford, Figure Walking Out to Sea, 2024

Acrylic on canvas, 203,2 × 172,7 cm

Courtesy of the artist and kaufmann repetto Milan / New York; photo: kun​st​-doku​men​ta​tion​.com

Katherine Bradford, Trio of Swimmers on Blue (detail), 2023

Acrylic on canvas, 203,2 × 172,7 cm

Courtesy of the artist and kaufmann repetto Milan / New York; photo: kun​st​-doku​men​ta​tion​.com

Katherine Bradford, Trio of Swimmers on Blue, 2023

Acrylic on canvas, 203,2 × 172,7 cm

Courtesy of the artist and kaufmann repetto Milan / New York; photo: kun​st​-doku​men​ta​tion​.com

Katherine Bradford, Swimmers in Blue, Horizontal, 2023

Acrylic on canvas, 172,7 × 203,2 cm

Courtesy of the artist and kaufmann repetto Milan / New York; photo: kun​st​-doku​men​ta​tion​.com

Katherine Bradford, Swimmers in Blue, Horizontal (detail), 2023

Acrylic on canvas, 172,7 × 203,2 cm

Courtesy of the artist and kaufmann repetto Milan / New York; photo: kun​st​-doku​men​ta​tion​.com

Katherine Bradford, Swimmers in Blue, Horizontal (detail), 2023

Acrylic on canvas, 172,7 × 203,2 cm

Courtesy of the artist and kaufmann repetto Milan / New York; photo: kun​st​-doku​men​ta​tion​.com

Katherine Bradford, Swimmers in Blue, Horizontal (detail), 2023

Acrylic on canvas, 172,7 × 203,2 cm

Courtesy of the artist and kaufmann repetto Milan / New York; photo: kun​st​-doku​men​ta​tion​.com

Katherine Bradford, Friends Standing in Low Water, 2024

Acrylic on canvas, 182,9 × 152,4 cm

Courtesy of the artist and kaufmann repetto Milan / New York; photo: kun​st​-doku​men​ta​tion​.com

Katherine Bradford, Friends Standing in Low Water, 2024

Acrylic on canvas, 182,9 × 152,4 cm

Courtesy of the artist and kaufmann repetto Milan / New York; photo: kun​st​-doku​men​ta​tion​.com

Katherine Bradford, Friends Standing in Low Water (detail), 2024

Acrylic on canvas, 182,9 × 152,4 cm

Courtesy of the artist and kaufmann repetto Milan / New York; photo: kun​st​-doku​men​ta​tion​.com

Katherine Bradford, Friends Standing in Low Water (detail), 2024

Acrylic on canvas, 182,9 × 152,4 cm

Courtesy of the artist and kaufmann repetto Milan / New York; photo: kun​st​-doku​men​ta​tion​.com

Katherine Bradford, Friends Together, 2024

Acrylic on canvas, 121,92 × 91,44 cm

Courtesy of the artist and kaufmann repetto Milan / New York; photo: kun​st​-doku​men​ta​tion​.com

Katherine Bradford, Friends Together (detail), 2024

Acrylic on canvas, 121,92 × 91,44 cm

Courtesy of the artist and kaufmann repetto Milan / New York; photo: kun​st​-doku​men​ta​tion​.com

Katherine Bradford, Under Water, 2023

Acrylic on canvas, 182,9 × 152,4 cm

Courtesy of the artist and kaufmann repetto Milan / New York; photo: kun​st​-doku​men​ta​tion​.com

Katherine Bradford, Under Water, 2023

Acrylic on canvas, 182,9 × 152,4 cm

Courtesy of the artist and kaufmann repetto Milan / New York; photo: kun​st​-doku​men​ta​tion​.com

Katherine Bradford, Carry Painting, Mother, 2023

Acrylic on canvas, 203,2 × 172,7 cm

Courtesy of the artist and kaufmann repetto Milan / New York; photo: kun​st​-doku​men​ta​tion​.com

Katherine Bradford, Carry Painting, Mother (detail), 2023

Acrylic on canvas, 203,2 × 172,7 cm

Courtesy of the artist and kaufmann repetto Milan / New York; photo: kun​st​-doku​men​ta​tion​.com

Katherine Bradford, Blue Beach Swimmers, 2023

Acrylic on canvas, 40,6 × 50,8 cm

Courtesy of the artist and kaufmann repetto Milan / New York; photo: kun​st​-doku​men​ta​tion​.com

Katherine Bradford, Summer Diver, 2023

Acrylic on canvas 30,5 × 22,9 cm

Courtesy of the artist and kaufmann repetto Milan / New York; photo: kun​st​-doku​men​ta​tion​.com

Katherine Bradford, Diver Dark Waves, 2023

Acrylic on canvas 25,4 × 20,3 cm

Courtesy of the artist and kaufmann repetto Milan / New York; photo: kun​st​-doku​men​ta​tion​.com

Katherine Bradford, Tidal Pool Swimmers, 2023

/ Acrylic on canvas 22,9 × 30,5 cm

Courtesy of the artist and kaufmann repetto Milan / New York; photo: kun​st​-doku​men​ta​tion​.com

Katherine Bradford, Bed Sitter, 2023

Acrylic on canvas 22,9 × 30,5 cm

Courtesy of the artist and kaufmann repetto Milan / New York; photo: kun​st​-doku​men​ta​tion​.com

Katherine Bradford, Alone with a Shower of Stars, 2023

Acrylic on canvas 35,5 × 27,9 cm

Courtesy of the artist and kaufmann repetto Milan / New York; photo: kun​st​-doku​men​ta​tion​.com

Katherine Bradford, Ocean, Stars, 3 Swimmers, 2023

Acrylic on canvas 35,5 × 27,9 cm

Courtesy of the artist and kaufmann repetto Milan / New York; photo: kun​st​-doku​men​ta​tion​.com

Katherine Bradford, Crossing the Ocean at Night, 2023

Acrylic on canvas, 35,5 × 27,9 cm

Courtesy of the artist and kaufmann repetto Milan / New York; photo: kun​st​-doku​men​ta​tion​.com

Katherine Bradford, Pink Beach Shoes, 2023

Acrylic on canvas, 35,5 × 27,9 cm

Courtesy of the artist and kaufmann repetto Milan / New York; photo: kun​st​-doku​men​ta​tion​.com

Katherine Bradford, Holding Spheres of Light, 2023

Acrylic on canvas, 50,8 × 40,6 cm

Courtesy of the artist and kaufmann repetto Milan / New York; photo: kun​st​-doku​men​ta​tion​.com

Katherine Bradford, Swimmers in Yellow Light, 2024

Acrylic on canvas, 121,92 × 91,44 cm

Courtesy of the artist and kaufmann repetto Milan / New York; photo: kun​st​-doku​men​ta​tion​.com

Katherine Bradford, Pop Corn, 2023

Acrylic on canvas, 101,6 × 76,2 cm

Courtesy of the artist and kaufmann repetto Milan / New York; photo: kun​st​-doku​men​ta​tion​.com

Katherine Bradford, Traveler’s Paradise, 2023

Acrylic on canvas, 121,9 × 91,4 cm

Courtesy of the artist and kaufmann repetto Milan / New York; photo: kun​st​-doku​men​ta​tion​.com

Katherine Bradford, Flight to Venice, 2023

Acrylic on canvas 76,2 × 101,6 cm

Courtesy of the artist and kaufmann repetto Milan / New York; photo: kun​st​-doku​men​ta​tion​.com

Katherine Bradford, Pink Studio, 2023

Acrylic on canvas, 76,2 × 101,6 cm

Courtesy of the artist and kaufmann repetto Milan / New York; photo: kun​st​-doku​men​ta​tion​.com

Artists

Participating artists

Katherine Bradford

*1942 New York, lives in Brooklyn and Maine

Solo (selection): kaufmann repetto, Milan (2024, 2021),Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo (2024, 2022), Kunsthalle Emden (2024), Frye Art Museum, Seattle (2023), Canada, New York (2023, 2021, 2018, 2016), Campoli Presti, Paris/​London (2023, 2021, 2019), Kunstmuseum Schloss Derneburg (2023), Portland Museum of Art (2022), Matthew Brown, Los Angeles (2022, with Sedrick Chisom), Hall Art Foundation, Reading, VT (2021), Carpenter Center for Visual Art, Harvard University, Cambridge (2021), Adams and Ollman, Portland (2020, 2018, 2016, 2014), Galerie Haverkampf, Berlin (2018, 2017), Galleria Monica De Cardenas, Mailand (2017), Sperone Westwater, New York (2017), The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (2017)

Shows (selection): Musée d‘Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (2023), Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland (2023, 2021), Kunsthaus Nürnberg (2023), Anton Kern Gallery, New York (2023, 2022), Le Consortium, Dijon (2022), Bowdoin College Museum, Brunswick (2022, 2019, 2004), Grimm Gallery, Amsterdam/​New York (2021, 2019), RISD Museum, Brown University, Providence (2021), Transcend, Alabama Contemporary Art Center, Mobile (2021), Pace Gallery, New York (2019), Prospect 4, U.S. Biennial, New Orleans (2017)

Her works are amongst others in the collections of Musée d‘Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Brooklyn Museum, Dallas Museum of Art, Menil Collection, Houston and the Portland Museum of Art.

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