John Bradford

Why this artist matters now

I moved to New York in 1967 to attend the Cooper Union, where I studied with Hans Haake, Wolf Kahn, Adja Yunkers, Robert Beauchamp, Leland Bell, Paul Georges, Paul Resika, and others. In the Seventies, I became a founding member of the Bowery Gallery and was a program director for the Figurative Artist’s Alliance. These were spirited meetings of artists held every Friday night for more than twenty years over the issues of subject matter and figuration that were similar to the abstract expressionist’s Eighth Street club meetings in the Fifties. In the mid Seventies I attained a Master’s Degree in painting from Yale, where I studied with Lester Johnson, Andrew Forge and others. I then returned to New York and continued my investigations into narrative painting, especially the Biblical narrative, as part of a group of artists and political theorists, including Tony Siani, Tom Milstein, and Avi Berkowitz who had focused on the crucial role that monotheism has played in the development of o

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