history of me, kay bradner & my art-making
Born:
1947 Walpole, Massachusetts
Education:
1972 BA Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
1975 MFA California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
Residency:
1998 Moulin de Pilande Basse, Plaissance, France
Solo Exhibits:
2017 Seager Gray Gallery, Mill Valley, CA "Haven"
2012 WHRC Gallery, San Francisco, CA “Ducks and Dogs”
2011 Sue Greenwood Fine Art, Laguna Beach, CA “fluid mechanics”
2011 Donna Seager Gallery, San Rafael, CA “On Water”
2009 Donna Seager Gallery, San Rafael, CA “Tender Observation”
2008 Donna Seager Gallery, San Rafael, CA “Unfurled”
2006 Donna Seager Gallery, San Rafael, CA “Aloft”
2006 Institute of Health & Healing, San Francisco, CA “one painter, one poet”
with Kathy Evans, poet
2005 CFA Gallery, San Anselmo, CA “Afloat”
2005 Women's Health Resource Center, San Francisco, CA
“boats as metaphors for healing”
2004 Atrium Gallery, Marin General Hospital, Corte Madera, CA
“Water & Boats, Memories & Metaphors”
2001 Institute of Health & Healing, San Francisco, CA “visualizing”
1999 bradford-smock gallery, San Francisco, CA “What kind of Fractal is a Duck?”
1997 emmie smock gallery, San Francisco, CA “Paintings”
1995 Le Petit Cafe, San Francisco, CA
1991 Syd Entel Gallery, Safety Harbor, FL
1990 Harvard Coop, Cambridge, MA
1988 Nancy Teague Gallery, Seattle, WA
1975 Isabelle Percy West Gallery, Oakland, CA
1973 Burnet Gallery, Amherst, MA “color studies”
Group Exhibits:
2017 Sue Greenwood Fine Art, Laguna Beach, CA "Dog Days of Summer"
2016 Seager Gray Gallery, Mill Valley, CA "Gallery Figures"
2016 Sue Greenwood Fine Art, Laguna Beach, CA "Chill"
2015 Seager Gray Gallery, Mill Valley, CA “Terra Cognita, Nature in Art”
2014 Sue Greenwood Fine Art, Laguna Beach, CA “Liquid”
2014 San Francisco Center for the Book, San Francisco, CA “Water Paper Stone”
2014 Seager Gray Gallery, Mill Valley, CA “The Art of the Book”
2005 Charles Campbell Gallery, San Francisco, CA “Introductions”
2005 Charles Campbell Gallery, San Francisco, CA “looking back, stepping forward”
2004 Marin Civic Center, San Rafael, CA “Marin Quilt & Needle Arts Show”
1st prize for quilt (at least that's what someone told me)
2003 Women's Cancer Resource Center, Oakland, CA “animal art”
2000 Maxwell Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1999 Gallery Concord, Concord, CA “Print Variations on a Musical Theme”
1998 Atrium Gallery, San Francisco, CA “Home Front” 2 person with Christine Hanlon
1994 Le Petit Cafe, San Francisco, CA “Impromptu” featuring collaborative book
with Headlands group: Charles Hobson, Kathy Evans & Tom Centolella
1993 Edith Caldwell Gallery, San Francisco, CA “Artists' Self Portraits in Black & White”
1992 West Side Gallery, Berkeley, CA
1985 Euphrat Gallery, Cupertino, CA “Face to Face”
1985 Pratt, New York City, NY “Pratt Annual Printmaking Competition”
1984 The Print Club, Philadelphia, PA “60th Annual Print Show” honorable mention
1983 Euphrat Gallry, Cupertino, CA “Printers as Artists”
1974 SFMOMA, (group show)”six printmakers”, San Francisco, CA
1974 Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR “Oregon Artists Under 35”
1974 Silvermine Artists Guild, New Caanan, CT “10th National Print Exhibition”
Collections:
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, OR
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
Achenbach Foundation for the Graphic Arts, San Francisco, CA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Teaching:
1991-1997 San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA -etching
1995 Urban School, San Francisco, CA high school - etching & drawing
1976-1979 California College of Arts & Crafts, Oakland, CA - etching & photo etching
1979 University of California at Davis, Davis, CA - graphic arts photography
I am over 70 now and so there is a long way to look back. The short version: I had an idyllic childhood with 5 brothers in a house my father built next to a waterfall in the woods south of Boston. I came west to San Francisco after a few years in New York City and Oregon. After getting my masters in printmaking, I had a fine arts press working with lots of artists with lots of printers for about 10 years. I had a baby and changed my job from helping others to make art, to making art of my own. I have had the very good luck to have kind and skillful galleries to help me. Now I play with my grandchildren and paint. I have always liked puttering on projects. Painting and playing with children have been interesting and fun projects.
Kay and Claire with Maryanne Boers,working on her etching in the 1980's
photo by Diana Crane Citret
Kay with Claire's baby in 2015
photo by Claire Kessler-Bradner
Kay in the 1950's
photo by Mead Bradner
Chronology