Katherine Bradford

Seven Swimmers, 2022101.6 x 76.2cmPrice on Request

Details

MaterialGalleryLocation

acrylic on canvasKaufmann RepettoMilan

Description

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This contemporary painting depicts a striking visual composition. The dominant colors are vibrant shades of purple, pink, and green, creating a moody and evocative atmosphere. The overall style is expressionistic, with bold brushstrokes and a sense of movement and energy. The subject matter features a group of stylized human figures, both in the foreground and background, each with their own distinct silhouettes and color palettes. These abstracted figures create a sense of mystery and suggest a narrative or emotional theme. The artist's technique showcases a unique blend of realism and abstraction, with the figures' forms and garments rendered in a dreamlike, ethereal manner. This artistic style and approach invite the viewer to contemplate the deeper meanings and interpretations underlying the work. In the context of contemporary art, this piece may explore themes of identity, interconnectedness, or the human experience, leaving the viewer with a thought-provoking and immersive visual encounter. ...

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Artist

Katherine Bradford

1942 , American

Katherine Bradford was born in New York, 1942. she lives and works in New York. Bradford’s mesmerizing yet rigorous visual language freely traverses the relationship between nonobjective and representational painting, allowing potential narratives to unfold and interweave with the investigation of form and color. Vast expanses of color divide her canvases into distinct horizontal planes while the variations in saturation and tone evoke an elusive yet almost palpable atmosphere. Lighter and darker hues are interchangeable and used without functional or hierarchical distinction, introducing spatial elements such as the sea and the sky, beaches and poolsides. These monochromatic backgrounds are occupied by human figures, often swimmers and bathers, whose androgynous, featureless bodies are roughly sketched. Driven by an unbiased curiosity, the artist allows her imagery to acquire a porous malleability where a pictorial sign becomes a signifier. Bradford’s practice has honed over four decades, maturing into a nonacademic, creative freedom that resonates deeply with the aesthetical and socio-political concerns of our time. It is her commitment to dynamic change and to the fluid state of human togetherness that Bradford so poignantly expresses in her radiant liquid fields. ...

Katherine Bradford: Artworks

Katherine BradfordSurfers with Surf Boards, 2021Price on Request

Katherine BradfordSwimmers and Their Lifeguard, 2021Price on Request

Katherine BradfordWater Jumpers, 2021Price on Request

Katherine BradfordSwan Dive with Onlooker, 2021Price on Request

Katherine BradfordDrinks by the Pool, 2021Price on Request

Katherine BradfordListening to Music by the Sea, 2021Price on Request

Katherine BradfordSwimmers on Yellow Sand, 2021Price on Request

Katherine BradfordLifeguards in the Sky, 2021Price on Request

Katherine BradfordThe winner, 2021Price on Request

Katherine BradfordNeighborhood Pool, 2022Price on Request

Katherine BradfordPool Side Swimmer, 2022Price on Request

Katherine BradfordSeven Swimmers, 2022Price on Request

Katherine BradfordTalkers and Listeners, 2023180000 USD

Katherine BradfordWaiting Room Blue, 2023180000 USD

Katherine BradfordSwimmers by the Town, 2024100000 USD

Gallery

Kaufmann Repetto

Milan, New York City

francesca kaufmann gallery opened in January 2000. Since then, the gallery has aimed to explore a diverse range of media, with a focus on video, site specific installation, and a special attention towards the works of female artists. After ten years in its historical location, the gallery opened in a new space in October 2010, under the name kaufmann repetto, to mark the partnership between Francesca Kaufmann and Chiara Repetto. In its new location, the gallery has been able to further develop its exhibition programming through a project space dedicated predominantly to younger artists, as well as a courtyard for large scale outdoor installations, which run parallel to the gallery’s main exhibition schedule. In 2013, the gallery inaugurated a new location in Chelsea, New York, with a parallel program to the gallery’s main space in Milan. In 2019 the New York location moved to Tribeca, expanding to a 3,000 sq ft exhibition space. The inaugural exhibition at the gallery’s new space in Tribeca was a solo show by Lily van der Stokker. ...