For Immediate Release
January 2023
David Bradford
Cities
January 31 – February 25, 2023
Reception: Thursday Feb 2, 2023, 5-8 pm
Gallery Talk: Saturday, Feb 25, 4 pm
The Bowery Gallery is pleased to present recent paintings by David Bradford. His recent works are executed in acrylic and burlap on panel. They use a language of color/light, compressed space, scale changes, and frontality. Building from these abstract elements, they reference cities, gardens, landscapes, and objects. The paintings seek, to quote Cezanne, “A harmony that is parallel to nature”.
"The use of burlap as a pictorial element helps me to work in an improvisational way—sometimes by merging objects and space, or by redefining the boundaries of objects, or by breaking up objects entirely. There is a tension between things observed in nature and the need to improvise, to transform, to invent."
– David Bradford
David Bradford has taught painting at Skidmore College, Springfield College, and Western CT State University. He has shown his work regularly at Bowery Gallery and also at the Flynn Gallery in Greenwich CT, the Washington Art Association Gallery in Washington, CT, and the White Plains Public Library Gallery. He lives in upstate NY.
Bradford’s work can also be seen at www.bradfordpaintings.com
View of works in the exhibition here.
About Bowery Gallery:
Founded in 1969, Bowery Gallery has been showing contemporary art of the highest quality for more than six decades. Bowery Gallery is a cooperative, founded by artists and directed by the collective decision making of its member artists. From its beginnings, Bowery Gallery has been a force for the expansion of art's traditions in a venue unconstrained by commercial pressures. Named after its original location, Bowery Gallery is now located in the heart of the Chelsea art district.
Gallery hours are 11am to 6pm Tuesday through Saturday. For more information,
please contact the gallery at 646-230-6655 or info@bowerygallery.org
Mask wearing in the gallery is optional, but encouraged.
Gallery hours are 11am to 6pm Tuesday through Saturday. For more information, please contact the gallery at 646-230-6655 or info@bowerygallery.org
