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Dove Bradshaw — Biography



1949 Born in New York, NY
1949 Born September 24th, Katherine Loveday Bradshaw in New York City at 436 East 88th Street. 1954   At age five Bradshaw knows she wants to be an artist motivated by a book her father makes to teach her to read.
1965   Sees Duchamp's work and DADA at MOMA. Particularly struck by the Bicycle Wheel and the absurdism of the Dadaist Manifesto.
1967   Graduates Nightingale-Bamford School, New York and in the fall enters Boston University, studying Liberal Arts.
1970   Takes spring term in NYC to study with Jolyon Hoffstead, ceramist, at the Brooklyn Museum School, New York.
1975   Begins anti-resume. Has her first solo exhibition at Razor Gallery in Soho, New York. Presents porcelain sculptures and Reliquaries of Duchamp, Cornel, Chaplin, Deitrich, Jean Cocteau, Bob Dylan along with a self-portrait.
1981 Begins making first serious two-dimensional work.
2001   The first is an extensive solo exhibition at Stalke Gallery, a five room gallery presenting seven new series.

 

Born September 24th, Katherine Loveday Bradshaw in New York City at 436 East 88th Street. She goes by the name of Dove. Mother, Jean Kathryn Cormack, of Portland, Oregon and London and David Nelson Bradshaw of New York City. Mother studied Egyptology at London University and Queens’s College, Cambridge University for three years. Assisted on the Maiden Castle dig in Dorset and Vercingeterix’ Refuge in Brittany under Sir R.E.M. Wheeler, Keeper of the London Museum. Returned to the US during WWII, met in New York and married her father at Fort Benning, Georgia in1942, abandoning plans as an archeologist. After her last child was in middle school, she began a full time job (from 1964 to until 1984) as secretary to Mrs. Webb, founder of the World Crafts Museum in New York. Worked as a volunteer and assitant organizer of World Crafts Council international Conferences. Administrator for the World Dance Aliance from 1985-1990. From 1992 to the present, volunteers as the Administrator for DiCapo Opera Company, New York.