jen bradford studio*blog

Studio Pics

2011-07-20T12:40:00.005-04:00

New Work

2011-07-20T12:34:00.014-04:00

On view at: Concrete Gallery
137 Main St. Cold Spring, NY
info.concrete.gallery@gmail.com

Mari Andrews

2011-06-16T00:43:00.002-04:00

website

Website Update

2011-05-28T08:50:00.003-04:00

I rearranged my website and have added several new images. Better!

Pen & Ink

2011-05-19T22:29:00.002-04:00

Foundling Fragments

2011-04-01T17:18:00.003-04:00

via Aria Nadii, images of fabric scraps and identifying markers left with foundling babies. I posted others once before - they are achingly moving to me.

The Jar Project

2011-03-05T21:51:00.005-05:00

Curated by Alexandra Sax, The Jar Project is an installation consisting of sixty art-filled jars made by sixty artists with connections to Maine.

It will be displayed as part of Product: A Temporal Artist Marketplace at
Whitney Art Works
492 Congress Street, Portland, Maine 04101
First Friday and Saturday
February, March and April 2011

Here is my jar. More pics in the post below.

The Jar Project: process pics

2011-03-05T21:38:00.004-05:00

Louise Despont

2010-10-09T12:29:00.002-04:00

Nicelle Beauchene Gallery

Cross-Writing

2010-09-30T20:23:00.004-04:00

via Le Divan Fumoir Bohemien

Paintings

2010-09-22T13:22:00.005-04:00

Karen Green

2010-09-17T21:34:00.006-04:00

SPACE
"Executed over the past year, the work concentrates on language, cracking its codes and its deceptive beauty. Paintings on wood and small mixed media collages on vellum, overlaid with meticulously rendered text - graceful, undulating calligraphy, white-on-white cross-writing, and uniform battalions of endless words marching across a serene landscape - speak of the ability of language to reveal and deceive all at once."

Because they're lovely.

2010-09-17T19:37:00.004-04:00

"Why are hipsters so in love with cool charts and antique tools?"

Pulling Through

2010-09-13T18:06:00.004-04:00

(detail)

New Paintings @ Van Brunt Gallery

2010-09-10T19:10:00.005-04:00

This was sort of a last minute show, but it looks great. I did have to put in a few older paintings, but most are new.
Van Brunt Gallery

Slime Molds

2010-08-28T20:06:00.003-04:00

LINK

Meryl Pataky

2010-08-22T17:48:00.005-04:00

Civilian Medals; Artistry and Disease
silver, enamel, found objects 2009

website

Olivia Jeffries

2010-08-22T12:42:00.006-04:00

website
blog
etsy shop

Unhappy Hipsters

2010-08-21T23:20:00.004-04:00

"Each night they sat closer to the windows, to better luxuriate in the knowledge that theirs was the most wonderful converted underpass in all the land."
LINK

Dalton J. Paul Getty

2010-08-20T13:21:00.002-04:00

via beautiful life

The Museum of Forgotten Art Supplies

2010-08-18T20:01:00.004-04:00

Drawger

Britain's Mid-Century Female Designers

2010-08-18T19:37:00.003-04:00

Slideshow @ Dwell

paperedtogether letterpress

2010-08-02T23:03:00.002-04:00

website

The heat has me all confused.

2010-07-31T00:27:00.003-04:00

New Work

2010-03-29T14:27:00.025-04:00

Aberson Exhibits
36th and Peoria Tulsa Ok 74105
918.740.1054

(paintings photographed by William Lamson)

Brenda Goodman

2010-02-23T20:16:00.006-05:00

I love the physicality and emotional richness of Brenda Goodman's work.

Check out her new blog for more new paintings.
Brenda's website also contains a wonderful interview.

More work in progress

2010-02-01T12:33:00.006-05:00

One Year in 120 Seconds

2010-01-10T12:53:00.001-05:00

Pictorial Webster's

2009-12-21T17:17:00.004-05:00

This gives new meaning to the expression "labor of love" - incredible process.

Pictorial Webster's: Inspiration to Completion from John Carrera on Vimeo.

Details

2009-12-13T11:57:00.005-05:00

works in progress...

Hopefully

2009-10-30T00:27:00.001-04:00

...I will be back soon. My laptop was stolen, and this old clunker can't handle much. But I'm working on it!

Some Studio Pics

2009-10-07T19:27:00.001-04:00

More Work in Progress

2009-09-30T22:07:00.004-04:00

Detail shots of paintings I'm working on at the moment. Check out my flickr page for more images!

In Flagrante Collecto

2009-09-21T08:42:00.002-04:00

Check out the book.

Hubbel Images

2009-09-09T20:01:00.003-04:00

More here.

Paddy Hamilton

2009-09-01T00:04:00.002-04:00

Moneygami

2009-09-01T00:02:00.001-04:00

Works in progress

2009-08-23T08:29:00.003-04:00

Sorry for the lack of posts!
Facebook has stolen me away from blogging recently.
I've been working on some new paintings - here are some detail shots.

Michael Schultheis

2009-07-25T23:23:00.003-04:00

Website

Micro Sculpture

2009-07-23T02:27:00.002-04:00

I'm not able to embed this video, but I promise
you will be glad you clicked the link!

The PEN Story

2009-07-18T21:14:00.001-04:00

Wow: "This is the PEN Story in stop motion. We shot 60.000 pictures, developed 9.600 prints and shot over 1.800 pictures again. No post production!"

Katherine Sherwood

2009-07-17T18:43:00.003-04:00

I'm adding more images of her amazing work - can't get enough! More here and here.

Toshiyuki Fukuda

2009-07-17T12:47:00.002-04:00

Wonderful illustrations.

Jacqueline Rush Lee

2009-07-10T00:45:00.002-04:00

website

In Other News

2009-06-27T16:22:00.004-04:00

The rain has been relentless, and the news has been bad.
Here's a photograph by Paddy Hamilton to cheer us up.

Iran

2009-06-20T01:04:00.000-04:00

Helen Carnac

2009-06-05T20:12:00.003-04:00

Vessels

La Petite Maison

2009-06-03T23:58:00.007-04:00

La Petite Maison
Originally uploaded by Boccacino

New Direction

2009-06-03T21:44:00.007-04:00

I've been drawing a lot recently, and am beginning to translate some of these ideas into paintings. It's been slow, but I'm excited about it.

Click the images for a bigger view.

Hiatus

2009-05-29T14:06:00.002-04:00

Hi everyone - I will return to more regular blogging at some point soon, but will probably continue to post less frequently for awhile. Many thanks for your kind words and enthusiasm - I have loved knowing when you enjoy images & links. I'm not signing off, but wanted to at least acknowledge the slow trickle of posts recently.

Béatrice Babarit

2009-05-17T10:58:00.006-04:00

Artelier

Dalibor Levíček

2009-05-12T22:29:00.002-04:00

@ Flickr

Slick

2009-05-11T00:48:00.004-04:00

Best Made Co.

Lisa Kokin

2009-05-09T01:01:00.003-04:00

website

Alejandro Marco

2009-04-25T23:46:00.003-04:00

I found this amazing painter on flickr about a year ago, where he goes by El Joven. At that point he wanted to be anonymous, but has since changed his mind, which is good!

Unfortunately he deleted a bunch of paintings but you can see them in the old post.

Russell DeYoung

2009-04-25T11:26:00.008-04:00

DeYoung's Website
More images and interview here.

Abigail Brown

2009-04-19T18:10:00.007-04:00

I'm in love with her sewn creatures.

Terunobu Fujimori

2009-04-18T13:07:00.007-04:00

I'm fascinated by the charred cedar boards - incredibly beautiful.
Slide show and more info at Dwell.

Dozier Bell

2009-04-07T21:30:00.012-04:00

New Drawings
DFN Gallery
210 11th Ave. (at W. 25th st), 6th floor NYC
Opening: Thursday, April 9th 6-8pm

Dozier Bell

Shelter

2009-04-07T00:34:00.004-04:00

Would I want to live here? Probably not. But it's still kind of compelling.
ecofriend

BLU

2009-04-06T20:45:00.000-04:00

Animation painted on public walls. Made in Buenos Aires and in Baden.
BLU
This is so clever, it gets me past the creepy aspect.

Judith Jannings

2009-04-03T00:30:00.007-04:00

Sampler made by Judith Jannings in 1806
Walsham Le Willows, Suffolk, England.
via Florizelle @ Le Divan Fumoir Bohemien
more @ Ex Antiques

Tim McFarlane

2009-04-01T19:47:00.006-04:00

Right Now
new paintings and works on paper
Bridgette Mayer Gallery
709 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106

Opening Reception: Friday, April 3, 2009. 6-8:30pm

Helen Levitt

2009-03-31T01:19:00.003-04:00

1913 - 2009

Anne Seidman

2009-03-28T20:33:00.003-04:00

website

Jen11

2009-03-27T19:39:00.002-04:00

Jen11 from UPPERCASE gallery on Vimeo.

Janine Vangool made this fun promo for the Jen11 exhibition and book.

A touring exhibition organized by Jennifer Khoshbin
Jen 11 book published by UPPERCASE
On exhibit in Artstream Gallery, April 2009
Read more about this exhibit,
& see all the participating Jens here.

(See previous post here)

Penny Hes Yassour

2009-03-27T10:14:00.005-04:00

The interaction of oil and graphite drawings with 3D forms is amazing.
Stux
3/26 - 5/2/09

Martin Papcún

2009-03-26T22:47:00.004-04:00

Website

nume

2009-03-24T22:42:00.005-04:00

Cardboard playhouse by nume design
via reuben miller.

End of the Flu

2009-03-20T23:42:00.003-04:00

Vintage photograph from Andre Fromont on Flickr.

Burkhas

2009-03-19T17:07:00.009-04:00

Sometimes I need reminding that I have nothing
to complain about.

Jo Pond

2009-03-18T00:19:00.004-04:00

Website

Recipes of the Gods

2009-03-17T01:05:00.006-04:00

Beautiful images from an exhibition of African fetish artifacts, Recettes Des Dieux.

Via Le Divan Fumoir Bohemien.

Gerry Keon

2009-03-15T15:33:00.008-04:00

Images via OK Harris & Granger Gallery.

Catherine Welshman

2009-03-14T18:44:00.003-04:00

tonight @ bau!
click on image for a better view.

The Nest

2009-03-14T12:09:00.004-04:00

A bird was making its nest.
In the dream, I watched it closely:
in my life, I was trying to be
a witness not a theorist.

The place you begin doesn't determine
the place you end: the bird

took what it found in the yard,
its base materials, nervously
scanning the bare yard in early spring;
in debris by the south wall pushing
a few twigs with its beak.

Image
of loneliness: the small creature
coming up with nothing. Then
dry twigs. Carrying, one by one,
the twigs to the hideout.
Which is all it was then.

It took what there was:
the available material. Spirit
wasn't enough.

And then it wove like the first Penelope
but toward a different end.
How did it weave? It weaved,
carefully but hopelessly, the few twigs
with any suppleness, any flexibility,
choosing these over the brittle, the recalcitrant.

Early spring, late desolation.
The bird circled the bare yard making
efforts to survive
on what remained to it.

It had its task:
to imagine the future. Steadily flying around,
patiently bearing small twigs to the solitude
of the exposed tree in the steady coldness
of the outside world.

I had nothing to build with.
It was winter: I couldn't imagine
anything but the past. I couldn't even
imagine the past, if it came to that.

And I didn't know how I came here.
Everyone else much further along.
I was back at the beginning
at a time in life we can't remember beginnings.

The bird
collected twigs in the apple tree, relating
each addition to existing mass.
But when was there suddenly mass?

It took what it found after the others
were finished.
The same materials - why should it matter
to be finished last? The same materials, the same
limited good. Brown twigs,
broken and fallen. And in one,
a length of yellow wool.

Then it was spring and I was inexplicably happy:
I knew where I was: on Broadway with my bag of groceries.
Spring fruit in the stores: first
cherries at Formaggio. Forsythia
beginning.

First I was at peace.
Then I was contented, satisfied.
And then flashes of joy.
And the season changed - for all of us,
of course.

And as I peered out my mind grew sharper.
And I remembered accurately
the sequence of my responses,
my eyes fixed on each thing
from the shelter of the hidden self:

first, I love it.
Then, I can use it.

Louise Glück

George Steinmetz

2009-03-14T11:21:00.003-04:00

via Ingrid's blog,
an amazing photograph of salt works in Niger by George Steinmetz.

Neko Case

2009-03-14T10:08:00.002-04:00

I love this little film about her recording Middle Cylone.

Untitled

2009-03-13T12:29:00.008-04:00

Be with me, words, a little longer; you
have given me my quitclaim in the sun,
sealed shut my adolescent wounds, made light
of grownup troubles, turned to my advantage
what in most lives would be pure deficit,
and formed, of those I loved, more solid ghosts.

John Updike, from "Spirit of '76"

Photograph from Joseph Robertson

Ingrid Ellison

2009-03-11T10:13:00.005-04:00

Blogs introduce me to so many wonderful artists who would otherwise fly gracefully under my radar.

Ingrid left a comment on my previous post, which led me to her wonderful blog, Painting in the Barn. The painting above is now showing at Aarhus Gallery in Belfast, ME.

Doug Navarra

2009-03-10T19:01:00.004-04:00

Palimpsest - 2004
gouache and pencil on found paper

@ OK Harris
via Joanne Mattera

Helen Carnac

2009-03-09T22:37:00.011-04:00

Velvet da Vinci

UPDATE: Carnac's blog. Thanks for the link, Helen! Best wishes for a successful show in Munich.

Fiona Robinson

2009-03-08T21:55:00.005-04:00

A lot of the artwork I'm enjoying lately is crying out to be seen in person versus shrunken reproductions, but here we are.
Robinson's Website

Rebecca Crowell

2009-03-08T10:04:00.008-04:00

Continuing my "less is more" theme. Sorry to say so little on this blog, but I really prefer to share images without mediating much.
Crowell's Website

Erin McSavaney

2009-03-06T21:28:00.006-05:00

McSavaney has a solo show beginning in May
@ Atelier Gallery in Vancouver.

Allison Schulnik

2009-03-05T13:24:00.005-05:00

Bomb Magazine is writing about the NY art fairs on Facebook, and is excited about Schulnik's work, so I had to have a look-see.

Love that sculptural Auerbach thickness. Beautiful, disturbing images.

11 artists named Jennifer

2009-03-03T20:30:00.010-05:00

Website

Book pre-order available via Uppercase Gallery.

woefoep

2009-02-27T00:41:00.008-05:00

via deviant art, there's virtually no info. His name is Mark and he's from the Netherlands. I love these colors.

Michael Kenna

2009-02-23T13:18:00.003-05:00

Kenna's website

Ed Angell

2009-02-22T21:49:00.005-05:00

Wood, lead, beeswax and cadmium yellow pigment.
Angell's website

via P Farrell Artblog

Homemade Ginger Ale

2009-02-20T18:42:00.005-05:00

Stephanie's recipe for Homemade Ginger Ale @
3191 Miles Apart
More beautiful photographs from Stephanie and Mav!

(this makes quite a bit of ginger syrup, it could easily be halved or quartered)
2 cups water
2 cups sugar (I used organic pure cane sugar)
Big knob of ginger (mine was about the size of a baking potato)
Sparkling water

Peel (I find the side of a spoon makes this job really easy) and slice the ginger. Combine water, sugar and ginger in a saucepan and bring to a boil on the stovetop. Simmer until reduced, about 15 minutes. Cover and allow the syrup to cool for 20-30 minutes. Pass through a sieve. Syrup will keep in the refrigerator for a few weeks.

To make ginger ale, mix with sparkling water to taste. Lemon and fresh mint are great additions if you have them available.

Homebody

2009-02-19T18:04:00.004-05:00

Images by Charlotte Franklin, via sfgirlbybay.

Jo Deeley

2009-02-16T11:17:00.002-05:00

Beautiful textile designs. Thanks to dear ada for the introduction!

Speechless

2009-02-11T06:40:00.002-05:00

Sorry for a silent spell.
See you soon!
Rivane Neuenschwander

Amish Diaries

2009-02-06T22:28:00.003-05:00

“I’ve never come across a single emotion expressed in the many, many that I’ve read,” he said. “And there is very limited contact revealed with the outside world. You do see mentions of local happenings that would send ripples through a whole county: barn fires, wagons being struck by trains, the floodwaters along a creek that rose so high a doctor couldn’t get his buggy through to treat a sick baby and the family had to muddle along without him. You can sometimes read emotional content into the dramas. But nowhere does it explicitly say ‘I was terrified,’ or ‘I was crying.’ ”

New York Times link

Doris Salcedo

2009-02-01T22:50:00.006-05:00

I'm just starting to learn about this fascinating Colombian artist.
More here and here.

Doris Salcedo carries out extensive research into the lives of those affected by Colombia's civil war, a conflict that has lasted intermittently since 1948. She interviews the relatives of the dead and the 'disappeared', or comes to know them through the records of humanitarian workers. In the case of the Unland sculptures she travelled to a chaotic and violent region in northern Colombia. There she met children from the area who were living in orphanages or on their own, and observed the way their lives developed over a period of time. More than the stories she was told by the children, or the words they used, Salcedo states that it is the condition of their lives which have been distorted by their experiences of loss that surfaces in the Unland sculptures.

Skylight

2009-02-01T10:34:00.005-05:00

via apartment therapy - unfortunately, whoever purchased this beautiful Stockholm apartment turned it into whatever Sienfeld was picturing when he said he couldn't be an orgy guy.

Meditation

2009-01-31T09:46:00.002-05:00

I've made several of these photo mosaics from flickr images recently. It's strangely calming.

Fire

2009-01-29T22:19:00.007-05:00

Everyone I know has had enough of this cold weather, and we're not even into February yet. I keep wishing I had a fireplace or wood stove. Seeing this picture today, I decided a fireplace in the kitchen (with comfier chairs) would be the best.

via sfgirlbybay

Eileen

2009-01-27T21:56:00.006-05:00

My friend Eileen got a cello for Christmas. Her Mom tells me she is able to play songs already, which I can't wait to hear in person.

eileen
Originally uploaded by naminukas