statement
Over the period of the past five or six years, my work has been focused on the effects of agriculture on the environment, and often has been entwined with community based projects. The intention of these works has been to serve as an invitation for dialogue on this topic and its many tangents. I have functioned as both the principle artist producing works for exhibition and as the initiator of open-ended,interdisciplinary projects. These projects start out as personal painting inquiry and often evolve into collaborations with other artists, students, or community members as creative responses to key environmental concerns.
The painting "Animal or Vegetable l" is one such of example of these inquiries. It represents a beginning series of personal work that has grown out of an earlier collaborative project entitled "Crop Circle." The "Crop Circle" project was a community based art endeavor that involved promoting awareness of local farmers utilizing organic processes. Formally I am interested in the destabilization of the perceptual space contained within the still life. This specific variety of gourds, which have been hybridized throughout history for their vibrant color and diverse forms, are of particular interest as a subject to me. My choice in observing their condition in a state of decay, is a subtle insinuation to the to the current manipulation of food crops by genetic modification. The figurative quality of the vegetable metaphorically destabilizes one's perception of what is plant and what is animal. As with all of these initial visual inquiries it remains to be seen what narratives the painting chooses to bring to surface and where they will evolve from there.
bio
born: 1962, Waterbury, Connecticut
education
Western CT. State University,M.F.A.,2004
B.S. Charter Oak Steate College,1986
selected awards/honors
Artists for Conservation Monthly Conservation Artist Award, 2012
State of Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. "Landscapes" and " Heminway Pond Series" by Invitation of the DEEP Commissioner Daniel Esty, 2012
National Resource Defense Council, Environmental Art Prize, Finalist, Exhibition, The Nabi Gallery, New York City, 2010
Nanyang Technological University Award for Excellence in Teaching 2010
selected publications
Dr.Adolfo Rodriguez Canto, "The Pitahayas in the Visual Arts, the History and the Literature", The Universidad Autonoma Chapingo, Institution of Public Education of Mexico, March 2013
INDA 7,"International Drawing Annual 7, Volume 7", Manifest Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Center-Manifest Press, Cincinnati, Ohio, 2012
Tracey O'Shaugnessey, "Naturally Suited to Nature", Cover article, Today Feature Section, Waterbury Republican American, December, 2011
Bridget Grady, "The Painting Room; A Painterly Approach to Research", International Journal of the Arts in Society, Common Ground Publications, 2010
selected solo or two-person exhibits
New Works: Bridget Eileen Grady, Founders Gallery, Solo Exhibition, Northwestern Community College
Wetlands, Solo Exhibition, The Artrium Gallery of the Warner Theatre, 2012
Prima Matera, Solo Exhibition, Block 43 Gallery, Singapore, 2007
Musicians' Life, Solo Exhibition, The Red Barn Studio, Bethlehem, Connecticut
selected group shows
Animals in Art, Invitational Group Exhibition, The Slater Museum, Norwich, Conneticut, 2014
Invitational Group Exhibition ,The Slater Museum, Norwich, Connecticut, 2014
Lisa Brody, Bridget Grady, and Caroline Harman, WAA Gallery ,Washington Depot, Connecticut, 2014
EAST MEETS WEST, LQM Gallery, New London, Connecticut
High(Realism's Realism), Manifest Creative Research and Drawing Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, 2013
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