Katherine Bradford / water drinker

A reflection on Katherine Bradford's 'water drinker'

moma / Inventing Abstraction, 1910–1925

In 1912, in several European cities, a handful of artists—Vasily Kandinsky, Frantisek Kupka, Francis Picabia, and Robert Delaunay—presented the first abstract pictures to the public. Inventing Abstraction, 1910–1925 celebrates the centennial of this bold new type of artwork, tracing the development of abstraction as it moved through a network of modern artists, from Marsden Hartley and Marcel Duchamp to Piet Mondrian and Kazimir Malevich, sweeping across nations and across media. The exhibition brings together many of the most influential works in abstraction’s early history and covers a wide range of artistic production, including paintings, drawings, books, sculptures, films, photographs, sound poems, atonal music, and non-narrative dance, to draw a cross-media portrait of these watershed years. http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/1291

katherine bradford

Man Under Water

Oil on canvas, 8" x 6", 2010.

Swim To The City

Oil on canvas, 20" x 16", 2009.

Theater Audience

Oil on canvas, 48" x 60", 2009.

Art Students Dropping Their Paintings off the Bridge

Oil on canvas, 14" x 19", 2007.

Red White Blue Flyer

Gouache on paper with collage, 17" x 11", 2011.

http://www.kathbradford.com/

http://figureground.ca/a-conversation-with-katherine-bradford/

keltie ferris

Risky Business: Keltie Ferris' Collisions of Improvisation and Decay

by John Yau

Andrew Zarou

http://www.andrewzarou.net

Ted Stamm

http://www.minusspace.com/2011/09/tedstamm/

http://tedstamm.com

Rachel Beach

Rachel Beach is a Brooklyn-based artist originally from Waterloo ON, Canada. She received an MFA from Yale University and BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Recent awards include a Socrates Sculpture Park Fellowship, a Canada Council for the Arts grant and residencies at the Lower East Side Printshop and Yaddo. Her work has been exhibited widely, including at Blackston, Lennon Weinberg and Mixed Greens in New York and Art Gallery of Nova Scotia and PlugIn Institute of Contemporary Art in Canada. Reviews of her work have appeared in The New York Times, Art in America, The Brooklyn Rail, Interview and C Magazine.

http://rachelbeach.com

Gary Petersen

I am interested in geometric abstraction that reflects our vulnerability and uncertainty in the world. I've always been interested in the line, how it contains, defines and suggests. Color is very important in my work. It allows the somewhat familiar forms to become personal and subtly eccentric.

My longtime interest in early 20th century abstraction and the notion of the "cosmic" merges with a California/pop sensibility. What develops is a way for abstract painting to still be engaging.