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: kunst-dokumentation.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: kunst-dokumentation.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: kunst-dokumentation.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: kunst-dokumentation.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: kunst-dokumentation.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: kunst-dokumentation.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: kunst-dokumentation.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: kunst-dokumentation.com
Katherine Bradford,By the Lighthouse, 2024
182,9 x 172,72 cm
Courtesy Katherine Bradford, New York
Photo: kunst-dokumentation.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: kunst-dokumentation.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: kunst-dokumentation.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: kunst-dokumentation.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: kunst-dokumentation.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: kunst-dokumentation.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: kunst-dokumentation.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: kunst-dokumentation.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: kunst-dokumentation.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: kunst-dokumentation.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: kunst-dokumentation.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: kunst-dokumentation.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: kunst-dokumentation.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: kunst-dokumentation.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: kunst-dokumentation.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: kunst-dokumentation.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: kunst-dokumentation.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: kunst-dokumentation.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: kunst-dokumentation.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: kunst-dokumentation.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: kunst-dokumentation.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: kunst-dokumentation.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: kunst-dokumentation.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: kunst-dokumentation.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: kunst-dokumentation.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: kunst-dokumentation.com
Artists
Participating artists
Katherine Bradford
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.
More contributions
Michael Krebber in conversation with Sandro Droschl
Video
As part of the exhibition A.rtificial I.ntrospection O., Michael Krebber speaks with Sandro Droschl about his artistic practice and his engagement with the writings and conceptual models of Oswald Wiener.
Michael Krebber in conversation with Sandro Droschl A.rtificial I.ntrospection O.
Exhibition Tour
Slide show
The exhibition A.rtificial I.ntrospection O. (A.I.O.) explores questions of thought, perception, and subjectivity at the intersection of introspection, cybernetics, and artificial intelligence. Its point of departure is the work of the Austrian writer, cognitive psychologist, and cybernetician Oswald Wiener (1935 – 2021), whose genuine thinking since the 1950s critically navigated between these fields while systematically resisting institutional appropriation.
Slide Show A.rtificial I.ntrospection O. Dr. Brigitte Borchhardt-Birbaumer
Susanne Wenger’s painting between Africa and Europe
Video
In her lecture, art historian and curator Brigitte Borchhardt-Birbaumer examines Susanne Wenger’s work as a transcultural Gesamtkunstwerk that bridges European modernism and Yorùbá ritual practice, creating a new sacred aesthetic that merges art, ritual, and cultural boundaries.
Brigitte Borchardt Kathy Rae Huffman
FROM CYBERFEMINISM
UNTIL NOW
Video
Kathy Rae Huffman’s lecture traces the evolution of cyberfeminism since the 1990s: it connected women in the digital sphere, challenged existing power structures, and presented examples — from VNS Matrix to contemporary digital activism — that highlight critiques of platform corporations, AI cultures, and global inequalities.
Kathy Rae Huffman Xol Meissner
Concert
Video
New York-based artist Xol Meissner — the alter ego of composer Mauro Hertig — has transformed the HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark into a hypnotic soundscape of extraordinary intensity with his haunting music, which oscillates between contemporary classical and avant-garde rock.
Xol Meissner Karin M. Schmidlechner
Styrian women during and after National Socialism
Video
In her research and in the volume Aus dem Blickfeld (Out of Sight), co-edited with Heimo Halbrainer, Karin Maria Schmidlechner demonstrates that the lived realities of Styrian women during the Nazi era and the postwar period were diverse and ambivalent. Hence, she broadens the scholarly discourse on their daily lives while simultaneously deconstructing common narratives such as that of the conformist woman or the so-called “rubble woman.”
Karin M. Schmidlechner Eva Ursprung
The Art of Surfacing
Slide show
With the exhibition The Art of Surfacing, HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark presents the multifaceted work of Austrian artist, musician, and curator Eva Ursprung, who was awarded the Honorary Prize of the Province of Styria in 2024. Her cross-media, feminist, and socially critical approaches revolve around the element of water as a metaphor for change and political and ecological processes.
Slide show Eva Ursprung Susanne Wenger
Àdùnní Olórìṣà
Slide show
Susanne Wenger gilt als eine zentrale Künstlerin Österreichs nach 1945 und als frühe Wegbereiterin des Surrealismus. Ihr Œuvre, das Skulpturen, Gemälde, Zeichnungen, Drucke und Batiken umfasst, überschreitet ästhetische Kategorien und verbindet Kunst, Spiritualität und Mythos.
Slide Show Susanne Wenger