Common Birds

"Flicker Over the Valley" - acrylic on canvas - 40" x 40"

"Common Birds" is a series of acrylic paintings on canvas and wood panels with textured paper collage elements.

"Egret's View Far and Near" - 18" circle and 24" x 40" x 1" - acrylic on canvas

Studio 211

88 Hatch Street

New Bedford, MA 02740

loribradley@comcast.net

hatchstreetstudios.com

"Flicker's Eye View", Lori Bradley 2017, 48" x 48"

Statement

My artwork is inspired by the great mid-century feminist artists who recognized and honored traditional women's decorative work and elevated it through their art - embracing all the pattern, the complexity, the bright colors, the swirling lines and shapes. Art trends tend towards simplification, but why simplify? The world is bright, intense and complex. Why not embrace it? I choose to do just that with my art.

News and Events

Lately, I've been enjoying painting in the Berkshires and get inspiration every day from driving to the top of Mnt. Greylock. Climbing higher, the various lookouts offer ever-changing view of the clouds and distant mountains of Massachusetts, New York State and Vermont. I'm always struck by how fragile the landscape looks; as if it is pockets of air covered with a thin veneer of glass that catches the most subtle changes in light and reflects back endless color combinations.

These views inspired my new acrylic painting series, Earth Stretched Thin. Of course, underneath the mountain surface is the hardest of rocks, granite, but after a summer with news of fires, floods and other ravages of climate change, the surface earth seems increasingly delicate. And, of course, the surface of the earth that contains all of life is only 3 to 46 miles deep!

Earth Stretched Thin are 24" x 36" acrylic paintings on canvas with 2.75" deep stretchers. This gives the canvas a sense of solidity with the colors and textures of the paintings are very soft and seemingly delicate - stretched and painting right around the wide edges. This way, they appear to float our from the walls.
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Now offering FREE painting classes at the Urban Nature Studio #211@ Hatch Street Studios and at the Fall River Public Library in Spring 2018 and 2019. Thank you to the Massachusetts Cultural Council for making these classes possible!

Email loribradley@comcast.net for more information and to register.

Exhibiting work from the Flight Memory series at the New England BioLabs Gallery in Ipswich, MA in March & April 2019!

Hatch Street Holiday Open Studios 2018 are on November 16, 17 and 18. Art, food, music, workshops and more. Check back soon for more information!

Common Birds will fill the Amazing Things Arts Center in Framingham, MA for the entire month of January 2018! then travel to the gallery at Cadbury Commons in Cambridge, MA for April 2018 and then to the Wingate Residences at Melborne Place in Pittsfield, MA!

My large-scale ceramic mirrors are now available year-round at Gotta Have It! in Fairhaven, MA!

The Hatch Street Studios Annual Holiday Open Studios this November 2018 was bigger and better than ever, with many new visitors!