Bowery Gallery is pleased to present David Bradford: recent paintings, a solo exhibition of new oil paintings. Bradford’s subjects—beaches, landscapes, and still lifes—serve as points of departure for a painterly language marked by compressed space, improvisational color, and deliberate frontality. These works manifest a tension between the impulse to abstraction and the desire to represent things seen in nature.

Bradford writes: I take what I need from nature, and no more than that. What I need is a motif that serves as a springboard for my imagination, with a structure that I can improvise around. I often consider what Raoul Dufy said – “Painting means creating an image which is not the image of the appearance of things, but which has the power of their reality.”

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 Flinn Gallery in Greenwich CT, the Washington Art Association Gallery in Washington, CT, and the White Plains Public Library Gallery. He lives in upstate NY.

Founded in 1969, Bowery Gallery has been showing contemporary art of the highest quality for more than six decades. Bowery Gallery is a cooperative, founded by artists and directed by the collective decision making of its member artists. From its beginnings, Bowery Gallery has been a force for the expansion of art's traditions in a venue unconstrained by commercial pressures. Named after its original location, Bowery Gallery is now located in the heart of the Chelsea art district.