KATHERINE BRADFORD AND SARAH GAMBLE
ADAMS AND OLLMAN
NOVEMBER 7–DECEMBER 20, 2014
OPENING RECEPTION: FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7 FROM 6–8PM |
October 1, 2014, Portland, Oregon: Adams and Ollman is pleased to announce a two person exhibition with Katherine Bradford and Sarah Gamble on view November 7 through December 20, 2014. Bradford and Gamble make emotive and exuberant paintings that feature direct, immediate mark-making and brilliant color. Sharing an overlapping visual lexicon, both artists embrace an animistic and raw dream world.
On view will be a selection of intimate paintings by Katherine Bradford, whose cast of characters–ships, swimmers, superheroes–are caught mid-motion, floating, flying and drifting against bold brush strokes and luminous fields of color. Bradford conjures her symbolic imagery including red skies and archetypal figures from an economy of intuitive and primitive marks. Her lush, painterly surfaces merge abstraction with figuration in a highly personal way to describe, not form, but feeling. The paintings, all nightscapes, flicker and glow with a strange phosphorescent light that suggests deep, dark dreams and a hazy space between reality and imagination.
In Red Reflection, a red rectangle becomes a bulky ocean liner adrift and alone in the blackness. In another work, a soaring superman is seen against a starry sky with loopy brush marks trailing behind that suggest that our hero is not on a mission, but on a joy ride. Consistent throughout the work is the suggestion of new frontiers and failed journeys. Humanistic and intense, Bradford's paintings explore the infinite through color, shape, and symbol and are, in turns, humorous, epic, emotional and vulnerable.
Much like Bradford’s works, Sarah Gamble’s paintings are dark, mysterious and personal. But while Bradford explores an interiority, Gamble investigates other worlds and unknown dimensions. In Gamble's works, body parts, fences, ancient vessels, towers, nets, ghosts and webs are conjured from bits, pieces, globs, smears, dashes and sprays of paint and pastel. The resulting images are recognizable, but displaced and odd. Revealing an idiosyncratic vision of strange beings and liminal spaces, the paintings radiate with energy, spirits and rituals Select works on view at Adams and Ollman were completed by the artist while at the Roswell Artist in Residence Program in Roswell, New Mexico.
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ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Katherine Bradford lives and works in New York and Maine. Her works have been exhibited at MoMA PS 1, New York; the Brooklyn Museum, New York; the Portland Museum of Art, Maine; the Addison Gallery of American Art, Massachusetts; the Weatherspoon Gallery, North Carolina; and the University of the Arts, Philadelphia. Concurrent with her exhibition at Adams and Ollman, Bradford is the subject of a solo exhibition that opens in November at Arts & Leisure in East Harlem. She has been honored with an award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Her work is in the permanent collections of New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, and the New York Public Library; the Wooster Art Museum, Ohio; the Portland Museum of Art, Maine; Farnsworth Museum, Maine; Smith College Museum, Massachusetts; Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania; the University of Delaware; and a number of major corporations.
Sarah Gamble lives and works in Philadelphia, PA. She received a BFA from the Corcoran School of Art and an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania. She was a 2009 Pew Fellowship Recipient and 2006 Bemis Center for Contemporary Art Fellow and has exhibited her work widely. Residencies include Millay Colony for the Arts, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Vermont Studio Center and Roswell Artist in Residence Program. |
LISTING INFORMATION
Adams and Ollman: 811 East Burnside #213, Portland, OR 97214
Gallery Hours: Wednesday-Saturday, 11AM–5PM and by appointment
Public Information: www.adamsandollman.com
Opening reception: Friday, November 7, 2014, from 6–8PM
CONTACT
Amy Adams | amy@adamsandollman.com
IMAGE
Katherine Bradford, Open Ocean at Night, 2014, oil on canvas, 20 x 36 inches.
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