press:
January 27, 2012 - April 1,
2012
Land, Sea and Sky: Dozier Bell, Katherine Bradford, Alan Bray, Terry Hilt,
Michael H. Lewis, Dennis Pinnette, Vivien Russe & Susan Shatter
at the Addison Gallery of American Art
April
2011:
Aucocisco Galleries is pleased to announce that painter Katherine
Bradford has been awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in the
field of fine arts.
"Often characterized as "midcareer" awards, Guggenheim Fellowships
are intended for men and women who have already demonstrated
exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional
creative ability in the arts."*
An extensive network of advisory panels composed of peers and
experts in an applicant's field of expertise makes recommendations
to a committee of selection for further review and selection and
then these recommendations are forwarded to the Board of Trustees
for final approval for the Guggenheim fellowships. It is because of
this rigorous selection process that it is considered to be among
the pre-eminent honors in the academic world.
Already an important and readily identified Maine painter,
Bradford's award brings further honor and distinction to our state
by adding considerable stature to our local contemporary arts scene
and community with being recognized by this award. It is an award
given on the basis of stellar achievement in the past and
exceptional promise for continued accomplishment. The fellowship
will allow Bradford to work with as much creative freedom as
possible.
Katherine Bradford splits her time between Brunswick, Maine and New
York City.
She lived year round in Maine for 11 years and began showing her
work in Maine in the 1970's. She had one person shows at Ann Weber
Gallery, Dean Valentgas Gallery, Icon Contemporary Art, the
Farnsworth Museum, University of Maine Museum and Aucocisco
Galleries in Portland.
Her works are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art,
the Brooklyn Museum, the Farnsworth Museum, the Portland Museum and
Bowdoin, Smith, Bryn Mawr and Bates Colleges.
She is currently on the graduate MFA faculty at the Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia and on the faculty at the
Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) in Manhattan where she teaches
a course in non-traditional painting. In 2009 she was a resident
faculty at the Skowhegan School for Painting and Sculpture in
Skowhegan, Maine.
She has shown her work at P.S. 1 in Queens, the Brooklyn Museum, and
Exit Art in New York City. Her work has been reviewed 3 times in Art
in America and most recently in the New York Times, the New Yorker
and Art News. She is a recipient of a Pollock Krasner Grant (2000)
and an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award (2005).
Aucocisco Galleries in Portland, Maine, the Edward Thorp Gallery in
New York City, and Samson Projects in Boston represent Bradford.
*From the website of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation:
www.gf.org
FMI: Andres A. Verzosa at (207) 775-2222 and/or
director(a)aucocisco.com
|
May 18, 2010: Yankee
Magazine Blog:
Setting Sail on a Sea of Oil: Kathy Bradford’s Ocean
Liner Show: Edgar Allen Beem
March 11, 2010:
Portland Press Herald: Katherine Bradford's summer
in Skowhegan: Bob Keys
January/February 2010:
Maine Magazine: Gone to
Maine: Katherine Bradford Jonathan Levitt p. 52-53 |
