Galerie Magazine: The 10 Best Art Exhibitions to See Around the World This Summer
In addition to rounding up the best gallery shows across America to add to your viewing calendar each month, Galerie has decided to highlight exhibitions where you can combine vacation with the viewing of art and design during the month of August—and beyond. From Jeff Koons’s newest works on the Greek island of Hydra and Daniel Arsham’s colorful intervention in the former rooftop gymnasium of a Le Corbusier–designed apartment building in Marseille to the Italian design duo Formafantasma’s takeover of Russel Wright’s former home and studio in Upstate New York, we’ve assembled a group of shows to provide cultural stimulation in adventurous realms.
Katherine Bradford (United States, born 1942), Prom Swim, Green, 2016, acrylic on canvas, 60 x 48 inches. Dallas Museum of Art. Dallas Air Fair Foundation Acquisition Fund, 2017.27 © Katherine Bradford. Image courtesy Dallas Museum of Art
9. “Flying Woman: The Paintings of Katherine Bradford” at the Portland Museum of Art in Portland, Maine
An American artist with studios in Brooklyn and Maine, Katherine Bradford began her career as an abstract painter but over time her work became more figurative when she started depicting athletic women in motion—women who were flying, floating, swimming and diving. Blurring the boundary between abstraction and figuration, she never renders her characters in a realistic manner, preferring instead to see them as universal characters related to stories from her own life. Loosely painted, her figures are part memories of people whose paths have crossed and part projections of whom we could be.
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. No one is actually identifiable, because in the end her subjects are color and form, and how they interact.
Through September 11.