The PMA’s summer exhibition Flying Woman: The Paintings of Katherine Bradford made Hyperallergic’s list of the top 50 exhibitions around the world in 2022. Read what they had to say here!
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Thirty years of canvases—likable, honest, and lively to a one—justify themselves on the museum walls of the PMA’s “Flying Woman: The Paintings of Katherine Bradford.”
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In Bradford’s color-infused world of superheroes and swimmers, viewers and her figures bathe together outside of time and space.
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Check out visitors Julie Torres and Ellen Letcher’s review of Flying Woman: The Paintings of Katherine Bradford on the art blog Two Coats of Paint.
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How does a superhero become superhuman? Friedrich Nietzsche can offer some guidance: “He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.”
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“Full circle” is the phrase that comes to mind apropos Katherine Bradford’s exhibition Flying Women at the Portland Museum of Art. Organized by Jaime DeSimone, these forty or so paintings span twenty-two years of her life as an artist, an existence that began much earlier in Maine when she was a wife and mother of young twins.
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Her survey show at the Portland Museum of Art begins with a 1999 painting of a flying women, which was first shown at the museum in 2001, and continues through to swimmers in communal groupings and faceless people helping other people.
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Katherine Bradford’s journey was as unfathomable as the opaque purpled seas and dark skies in many of her paintings, but at 80, the artist, who as a young mother fled rural New England with her young children to live in New York City, has her first major museum survey this summer.
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Across more than 40 paintings, the show traces her technical evolution — from single subjects to ensembles, from oils to acrylics — as she returns to what she calls her “bag of tricks”: swimmers, caped superheroes, floating horizontal bodies.
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“Woman Flying,” the 1999 painting that inspired the show’s title, is now in the PMA collection. It depicts a nude, red-caped woman trying to fly. That’s what Bradford has been doing for more than 40 years and she has succeeded. At 80, she is going like 60.
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