David Bradford - “Cities”

City, Acrylic and Burlap on Panel, 12" x 16", 2022

January 31 – February 25, 2023

Opening Reception:  Thursday Feb 2, 2023 5-8 PM

Gallery Talk:  Saturday, Feb 25 4PM

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.