Katherine Bradford (b. 1942) is an intuitive painter and object maker, best known for her luminous, tactile paintings of ships, swimmers, superheros, and divers. Her paintings hover in the realm between the real and the imagined. She subversively imitates abstract art, reinterpreting it in her own figurative idiom.
Bradford’s work has received favorable reviews from many publications including the New York Times, Artforum, Art in America, and Hyperallergic. She was recently named in the Huffington Post’s 15 Artists to Watch in 2015 and she is the recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant Award.
Katherine Bradford splits her time between Brunswick, Maine, and New York City. Her work is included in many museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Brooklyn Museum; and the Portland Museum of Art in Maine, among others.
