EventsThe New Social Environment#635

Katherine Bradford: Flying Woman

Featuring Bradford, Chris Martin, and Phong H. Bui

Monday, August 29, 2022 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific

These free events are produced by The Brooklyn Rail.

Artist Katherine Bradford joins Rail Contributor Chris Martin and Rail Publishes and Artistic Director Phong H. Bui for a conversation. We conclude with a poetry reading by Sasha McEvoy.

In this Talk

Visit Flying Woman: The Paintings of Katherine Bradford, on view at Portland Museum of Art through September 11, 2022 →

Katherine Bradford

Katherine Bradford is a painter with studios in Brooklyn and in Maine. This season she had solo shows in Tokyo (Tomio Koyama Gallery), Milan (Kaufman Repetto Gallery) and forthcoming at her New York gallery, Canada, opening October 23^rd. She also participated in group shows at David Zwirner, Vito Schnabel Gallery and Karma among others. Awards include a Guggenheim and a Joan Mitchell Fellowship. She has taught in the Yale MFA program and at Skowhegan. Her murals can be found in the Manhattan subway at the First Ave stop on the L line. Her work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Baltimore Museum, the Musee d’Art Moderne Paris, and the Rubell Family Collection. Katy Hessel interviewed her on her Great Woman Artists Podcast April 8, 2025.

Chris Martin

Portrait by Phong H. Bui

Working from a heterogeneous array of cultural traditions, Chris Martin (b. 1954, Washington, D.C.) makes paintings that serve as living documents of the eternal present. Chris Martin has been the subject of solo exhibitions at institutions worldwide, and his paintings are included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; High Museum of Art, Atlanta; Museum of Contemporary Art Denver; Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, the Netherlands; and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among other museums. Paintings, a career-spanning monograph, was published by Skira in 2017. Martin lives and works in Brooklyn and the Catskills, New York.

Phong H. Bui

Photo by Nicola Delorme

Phong H. Bui is an artist, writer, independent curator, and Co-Founder and Publisher/Artistic Director of the Brooklyn Rail, Rail Editions, River Rail and Rail Curatorial Projects.

The Rail has a tradition of ending our conversations with a poetry reading, and we're fortunate to have Dao Strom reading.

Dao Strom

Artist Dao Strom works with three “voices”—written, sung, visual—to explore hybridity and the intersection of personal and collective histories. She is the author of Instrument (Fonograf Editions, 2020) and its musical companion Traveler’s Ode (Antiquated Future Records, 2020); a bilingual poetry-art book, You Will Always Be Someone From Somewhere Else (AJAR Press); a memoir, We Were Meant To Be a Gentle People, and song cycle, East/West; and two books of fiction, The Gentle Order of Girls and Boys and Grass Roof, Tin Roof. Born in Vietnam, Strom grew up in the Sierra Nevada foothills of California and lives in Portland, Oregon. She is co-founder of two collective art projects, She Who Has No Master(s), and De-Canon.

https://www.daostrom.com/

We’d like to thank The Marion Boulton Kippy Stroud Foundation and Teiger Foundation for making these conversations possible, and for their support of our growing archive 🌈✨