Alizarin Goldflake (Martha Jane Bradford)
Awards:
1989, Massachusetts Artist Fellowship, Finalist, Painting
1985, Massachusetts Artist Fellowship, Fellow, Drawing
One Person Exhibitions:
2008 Clark Gallery, Lincoln MA, “Clouds&Coal” 2008, “Looking Inward Looking Out” 2005; “New Drawings: Digital Charcoals” 2001; “Surroundings” 1996; “Paintings of Lincoln County”1993; “New Work “ 1991; “Cultivated Spaces/Charcoal Drawings” 1989; “Realism: Four Points of View” 1986; “Large Drawings” 1982
2008 Atelier Alizarin, Second Life (www.secondlife.com), “Clouds&Coal” in conjunction with the 2008 Clark Show. “Immersive Art” also on view.
2006 Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown OH, “Digital Drawings”
2002 Uptown Gallery, New York NY, “Digital Charcoal Drawings”
1998 Maine Coast Artists, Rockport ME, “The Inhabited Landscape”
1996 Round Top Center for the Arts, Damariscotta ME, “Paintings and Prints”
1989 Artists Foundation, Boston MA, “Small Landscapes”
Group Exhibitions (partial list):
2008 Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown OH, “72nd National Midyear,”2008 First Prize, juror:
-1987 Don Eddy; “71st National Midyear,”2007 juror: Larry Salander; Beecher Center for Technology,
“Digital Artists: Recent Works”2003; “Mainstream America: The Collection of Phil Desind”1987
2008 The Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham MA, “A Community of Artists 2008, 2006;” “The
-2006 New Landscape: Alternative Approaches”
2008 Boston Printmakers Members Traveling Show, Gordon College, Gloucester MA, March 2008
2007 Boston Cyberarts Festival, “TechArt III,” South Shore Art Center, Cohasset MA, juror: Carl Fudge
2007 The Art Complex Museum, Duxbury MA, “The Boston Printmakers’ Sixty Years of North American
- 1996 Prints: Creating Public Collections, curator: David Acton, The Worcester Art Museum; “THREE:
EES Arts,” 2006; “Time Remembered, Time Past,” 2004; “The Light Beyond,” 1996
2006 The Boston Center for the Arts, Boston MA, “Studios@35”
2008 Clark Gallery, Lincoln MA, “On Paper;” 1981 – 2008 Seasonal Group Shows; “Thru a Window,” 1997
2006 Nan Mulford Gallery, Rockland ME, 1999 - 2006 Seasonal Group Shows
2005 Boston Printmakers National Shows. 2005, 2003, 2001, 1999: Boston University, Boston,
- 1980 MA; 1995: 45th, Duxbury Art Complex Museum, Duxbury MA; 1993: 44th, Boston University;
1990: 42nd, Fitchburg Museum, Fitchburg MA; 1980: 32nd, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln MA,
Purchase Award, jurors: Gabor Peterdi and Frederick P. Walkey
2004 Uptown Gallery, New York NY, “New Season New Works”
2003 University of New Hampshire, The Art Gallery, “Small Prints,” a Boston Printmakers show
2003 Uptown Gallery, New York NY, Summer Group Show
2003 Boston Public Library, Boston MA, “Works by Women from the Collection”
2001 DeCordova Museum, Lincoln MA: 2001 “Landscapes Seen and Imagined: Sense of
Place,” 2000 “Recent Acquisitions,” 1978 “Director’s Choice,” 1976 “Patrons’ Choice: New England
Artists Under Thiry-six”
2001 Three Columns Gallery, Mather House, Harvard University, Cambridge MA, “The
Sorcerer’s Apprentice: a mouse in the studio” (Boston Cyberarts Festival event)
1999 Cambridge Art Association National Prize Show, Federal Reserve, Boston MA, curators: Peter
Rathbone, Sotheby’s, Eliza Rathbone, The Phillips Collection, and Belinda Rathbone, Historian
1998 Maine Coast Artists, Rockport ME, “When Pixels Replace Paint”
1994-5 The Boston Printmakers, Traveling Show: “Architecture in Contemporary Printmaking”
1989 Fitchburg Museum, Fitchburg MA, “Monocular Vision: An Exhibit of New England
Realist Artists,” curator: Frederick P. Walkey
1987 Brockton Art Museum, Brockton MA, “Triennial Exhibition”
1982 Nelson Gallery/Atkins Museum, Kansas City MO, “Repeated Exposures,” George L.
McKenna, curator
1981 Suzanne Brown Gallery, Scottsdale AZ, “New West ‘82”
Reviews:
The Boston Globe (Boston MA), Cate McQuaid, April 1, 2005, page D19
The Patriot Ledger (Boston MA), Jon Lehman, July 31, 2004, pages 48 - 49
The Brookline Tab (Brookline MA), June 26, 2003, page 19; May 24, 2001, p. 31
The Camden Herald (Camden ME), June 29, 2000
The Lincoln County Weekly (Damariscotta ME), November 12, 1998
The Lincoln County News (Damariscotta ME), November 19, 1998; June 27, 1996;
October 14, 1993, front page photo; October 7, 1993, page 9a
Lincoln Journal (Lincoln MA), Calendar, “Pick of the Week,” February 15, 1996, page 13
Washington Citizen (Washington DC), September 24, 1994, page 13
The Brookline Citizen, Calendar, October 8, 1993
Art New England, Robert Craven, April/May 1993, page 62
The Boston Globe, Nancy Stapen, April 18, 1991, page 69
The Boston Globe: "Calendar" section, "Critic's Tip," Christine Temin, March 28, 1991, page 22
The Boston Herald, Joanne Silver, May 5, 1989, page S21
The Lincoln Journal, Marty Carlock, December 22, 1998; December 14, 1989
The Boston Globe: "Calendar" section: "Critic's Tip," Christine Temin, March 27, 1986, page 30
Art New England, Jody Zellen, May 1983, Vol.4, No. 6, page 8
The Boston Globe, Christine Temin, December 2, 1982, page 61
Museum Collections:
Art Complex Museum, Duxbury MA [Charles Weyerhaeuser]
Boston Public Library, Boston MA [Sinclair Hitchings]
The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown OH [Louis Zona]
DeCordova Museum, Lincoln MA [Rachel Lafo, Frederick P. Walkey]
Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland ME [Suzette Lane McAvoy]
Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge MA [Marjorie B. Cohn, Konrad Oberhuber]
Nelson Gallery/Atkins Museum, Kansas City MO [George L. McKenna]
Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City UT [E.F.Sanguinetti]
Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick NJ [Ms. Trudy V. Hansen]
Corporate Collections (Partial list):
Aetna Casualty and Surety, Hartford CT
Ashland Oil, Inc., Atlanta/Minneapolis/New York
Bank of Boston, Boston MA
The Boston Company, Boston MA
The Boston Globe, Boston MA
Choate, Hall, and Stewart, Boston MA
Digital Equipment Corporation, Maynard MA
Fidelity Management and Research Company, Boston MA
General Electric, Fairfield CT and Waltham MA
Graphic Chemical Co., Villa Park IL
Harvard Business School, Cambridge MA
Insurance Company of North America, New York NY
John Hancock, Boston MA
Johnson & Johnson, Inc., Charleston SC
Marsh and McLennan, Inc., Boston MA
Marriott Suites, Waltham MA
Palmer and Dodge, Boston MA
Pepsico, Somers CT
Prudential Insurance Company, Chicago Il
Rembrandt Graphic Arts Co., Rosemont NJ
Scudder, Stevens, and Clark, Boston MA
Security Pacific National Bank, Los Angeles CA
Standard Oil of Ohio, Petroleum Headquarters, Houston TX
Thorndike, Doran, Paine, and Lewis, Boston MA
Valley National Bank, Phoenix AZ
Publications:
Oyster Bay, Morris Vig, Blurb.com, 2008
When Walls Become Doorways, Tobi Zausner, Harmony Books, 2006, pp. 191, 195 - 7
Mount Holyoke Alumnae Quarterly, Spring 2006, “Bragging Rights,” Emily Harrison Weir, p. 25
The Archaeologists Toolkit, Barbara Kipfer, Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, UK, 2006, “How To
Do a Digital Drawing”
The Painter IX Wow! Book, Cher Threinen-Pendarvis, Peachpit Press, 2005, pp. 216 - 217
Mastering Digital Printing, Harald Johnson, Muska & Kipman, 2003, pp. 98, 341, and 353
Digital Fine Art Magazine, Fall 2001, “Digital Charcoal,” Linda DeNicola, pp. 41 - 43
Repeated Exposure: Photographic Imagery in the Print Media, George L. McKenna, Nelson Gallery/Atkins
Museum, Kansas City MO, 1982, page 86
Professional Affiliations:
The Boston Printmakers, executive board member 1995 - 2005
2003 – 2005: newsletter editor. 1996 – 2003: sales.
1993 – 1996: traveling exhibitions. “Architecture in Contemporary Printmaking,” Boston Architectural Center, January 1994; the American Institute of Architects, September 1994; the University of New Hampshire, January 1995.
EES Arts, Hyde Park MA, 2005 – 2007
National Association of Photoshop Professionals
Society of American Graphic Artists, New York
Southern Graphics Council, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga TN
Public Lectures:
October 15, 2006: “Digital Drawing,” Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown OH
March 19, 2006: “Digital Drawing,” Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham MA
April 26, 2001: “Digital Drawing,” Mather House, Harvard University, Cambridge MA
Gallery Representation:
Clark Gallery, Lincoln MA
Uptown Gallery, New York NY
Corporate Art Representative: Susan Fulmer, Lincoln MA
On-line Galleries:
http://www.marthavista.com
http://www.worldprintmakers.com
Travel:
American West and Southwest, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, England, France, Nova Scotia, Peru, Quebec
Education:
Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley MA, B.A. with Distinction 1968, English Composition; Minor in
French; Sarah Williston Scholar; Bernice McLean Award in Biology
Museum of Fine Arts, Evening School, Boston MA, Lithography 1972-74
