Katherine Bradford

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Published by JRP|Editions

10.75 x 11.25 inches

175 pages

Since the 1970s, Katherine Bradford has unapologetically blazed her own path in the art world, painting daily, and building a community of like-minded artists in both Maine and New York. Bradford paints with a formal inventiveness and a shifting sense of figure and ground, giving narrative weight to her characters who may appear as heroes or lovers, families or couples, businessmen or isolated individuals. Her chromatic scenes, painted in many transparent layers of acrylic, transmit a light-filled quality, and offer metaphorical possibilities as they veer between humor, pathos, and abstraction.

This reference monograph of her work features an essay by London-based art critic Allie Biswas that reflects on the metaphysical nature of Bradford’s work, an interview with fellow artist and writer Daniel Gerwin, a narrative biographical text by her children Laura and Arthur Bradford that offers a personal look at the artist’s life and work, as well as an overview essay by Graz’s Halle für Kunst Director Sandro Droschl, which provides an overview of the artist’s work. The book compiles over 130 artworks, surveying the painter’s oeuvre from 2015 to the present, focusing in particular on her recent “Swimmers” and “Mother Paintings” series, which deal with her own vision of motherhood and womanhood.⁠