Water, sky, atmosphere, an ethereal dining table. Katherine Bradford’s figures can be found in them all, in vibrant, eye-popping colors! Join Bradford as she walks us through these worlds and more along with Amanda Donnan, Interim Director & Chief Curator at the Frye Art Museum, in conjunction with the opening celebration of Bradford’s retrospective Flying Woman: The Paintings of Katherine Bradford. Participants are encouraged to ask questions along the way in this incredible opportunity to connect with the artist and hear about the work in her own words. 

Masks are strongly encouraged as social distancing will not be possible given the nature of the program.  

ABOUT THE ARTIST 

Katherine Bradford (born 1942, New York City) has received a Guggenheim Award and a Joan Mitchell Foundation grant, as well as two awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her work was presented in a solo exhibition at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas, and has been featured in group shows at the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas; the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, Kansas; the fourth Prospect New Orleans Triennial; MoMA P.S.1, New York; and the Brooklyn Museum. In 2017–2018 she was Senior Critic on the faculty of the Yale School of Art. Her work is included in collections such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Brooklyn Museum; the Dallas Museum of Art; the Frye Art Museum; the Menil Collection, Houston; the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art; and the Portland Art Museum, Oregon.