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Biography
In her highly gestural Fluid Dynamics series, Linda Bradford seeks to collaborate with the dynamics of Nature via the hydraulics of paint and the "spring coefficient" of her brushes. Meanwhile, she also tries to remain open-minded and allow the brush to lead, like dancing.
Ever since she discovered how polyurethane foam brushes can drag and release paint in passages and patterns of seemingly photographic detail, Bradford has been exploiting industrial foam. Working with custom-fabricated brushes, she can pivot the brush mid-stroke without losing contact with the paper, recording on a two-dimensional surface a reorientation that took place in three dimensions.
Whether doing work that is gestural or geometric, studio or digital, black and white or color, Bradford seeks to achieve the illusion of dimensionality in order to open up space, to make two dimensions appear to be three-all the better for the viewer to be lost in. For when focus is fully absorbed, perception becomes the narrative.
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CV
Download Bradford CVLives and works in Beacon, NY
EDUCATION
MFA, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
Art Students League, studied with Richard Pousette-DartSELECTED EXHIBITIONS & INSTALLATIONS
2020
The Blues, The Painting Center, New York, NY
Gesture & Motion, Site: Brooklyn Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Stay Home, Make Art: Hudson Valley NY, Dorsky Museum online
2018
Strata Veil, The Downtowner, Saratoga Springs, NY
2016
Expanded Fields, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
2015
New Directions, Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY
2014
Off the Wall, Pierogi Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2013
Unhinged, Pierogi Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2012
Phenomena, The Phatory, New York, NY
2006
Summer Show, Galerie Open, Berlin, Germany
2003
Selected Work, Limn Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2002
Witness and Response, Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Reactions 9/11, Exit Art, New York, NY
2000
Infinite Resolution, Catherine Moore Fine Arts, New York, NY
1996
Art Interactive, Crocker Museum of Art, Sacramento, CA
1987
Solo exhibition, ABC No Rio, New York, NYCOLLECTIONS
Adobe Systems, San Jose, CA
The Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
Bache & Company, San Francisco, CA
Crocker Bank, San Francisco, CA
Jeannine Oppewall
Judy BlumeBIBLIOGRAPHY
Patterns in Design, Art, and Architecture, Petra Schmidt, Annette Tietenburg, Ralf Wollheim, eds., Birkhauser, Basel, 2005; second edition, 2007
Amica, "Finto Puntinismo Cinese," April 2005
Surface, "Border Control," Issue 47, 2004
Frame, "Detail 23," September/October 2004MEDIA
Work featured in the Viewing Program at The Drawing Center, ongoing
Work appeared in multiple episodes of "Gossip Girl," 2011-2012
