Katherine Bradford (QuarARTine special episode)
Talk Art
Russell Tovey and Robert Diament c/o Independent Talent
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2020
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Season 6 continues! Recorded remotely on 3rd April 2020 during lockdown, Russell & Robert chat to leading artist Katherine Bradford, best known for her radiant paintings of swimmers, superheroes, ships and dreamy landscapes that critics describe as simultaneously representational and abstract, luminous, and richly metaphorical.
We explore how Katherine changed her life aged 30 years old to become an artist moving with her twin children from Maine to New York City, making friends with Chris Martin and other passionate intense painters in 1980s Brooklyn: "It was quite a new idea. People were not going to Brooklyn to be artists. So we were in a sense pioneers and we all stuck together, we relied on each other.” We discuss landscape painting, lobsters and Brunswick Maine's cold water coast, the sense of night in her works and how she came to add figurative elements which in turn increased her audience and interest in her paintings. We learn of her admiration for Marsden Hartley’s clouds "logos of the sky", John Marin and Alex Katz who share a direct, simplified language of painting. We explore the influence of folk art and children’s art, the spiritual in art (à la Kandinsky), and how working with the influential CANADA gallery helped her to progress. We find out what success means to her and the themes within her new solo show Adams and Ollman gallery in Portland. We discuss the joy of Instagram and her love of other painter's works including Susan Rothenberg, Rothko, Rose Wylie, Chris Martin, Katherine Bernhardt and Nicole Eisenman.
Follow @KatheBradford on Instagram and please also visit Katherine's galleries @CanadaGallery and @AdamsandOllman and visit their website to view Katherine's current solo exhibition 'Mother Joins The Circus' www.adamsandollman.com. For images of all artworks discussed in this episode visit @TalkArt. We've just joined Twitter too @TalkArt. If you've enjoyed this episode PLEASE leave us your feedback and maybe 5 stars if we're worthy in the Apple Podcast store. Thank you for listening to Talk Art, we will be back very soon. For all requests, please email [email protected]
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| 0:57.0 | Good afternoon, good morning, good evening, wherever you are in the world, I'm Russell Tovey, |
| 1:06.8 | and I'm Robert Diamant. And this is Talkart. |
| 1:10.2 | Welcome to Talk Art. How were you today, Rob? In spite of the fact that we're in a global crisis and |
| 1:16.8 | with each day that goes by you kind of become more aware how serious it is and you know I'm beginning to hear of friends that have been very |
| 1:23.7 | sick in London and in New York and mutual friends passing away so it's obviously |
| 1:28.2 | an incredibly intense time but when I knew we were talking to today's guest, I was thinking back to how we first met and we actually met in 2016. |
| 1:39.0 | It's actually a long long time ago and I first discovered her work in 2015. |
| 1:42.0 | And I remember back then it almost feels like now |
| 1:44.4 | looking back how simple everything was for me like I think the biggest thing I was |
| 1:48.6 | concerned about was the fact that the person I was going out with didn't actually |
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