Résumé

Biography

Jo Bradney was born in London, UK and grew up on the idyllic Isle of Wight in the South of England. She spent a fun filled three years at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne studying ancient history and literature and received a BA in Classical Studies in 1994.
She moved to the US in 1996, seeking adventure.
And discovered she could draw.

Awards & Honors

Best in Show: Mixed Media "Vigilance II"  Metro 25 City without Walls, Newark, NJ December 2007
Best in Show: "Drip-Dry"West Orange Arts Festival Juried Art Show West Orange, NJ April 2006
Best in Show: "BeetBoots" From Garden to Kitchen to Table Park Avenue Club, Florham Park, NJ September 2003
Best Drawing: "Eggbox" 11th Annual Gaelen Juried Art Show The Gaelen Gallery West Lautenburg Family JCC Whippany, NJ May 2010
Best Drawing: "Cascade" 10th Annual Gaelen Juried Art Show The Gaelen Gallery West Lautenburg Family JCC Whippany, NJ May 2009
Award of Merit: Red Onion , Center Stage 30th Annual Mountain Art Show Bernardsville, NJ October 2010
Award of Merit: "Last Light" 24th Annual Juried Exhibition of Miniature Art, Chambersburg Council for the Arts, Chambersburg, PA November 2008
Award of Merit: Run Wild 4th Annual Juried Miniature Art Show Heartland Art Guild, Swan River Museum, Paola, KS July 2008
Award of Merit: "Cascade" NJCVA Members Show Summit, NJ June 2004
Award of Excellence: Perfect Fit The Art School at Old Church, Demarest, NJ June 2011
Honorable Mention: "Homewards" 25th Annual North American Juried Miniature Art Exhibition Art Gallery of Fells Point, Baltimore, MD October 2008
Honorable Mention: As Autumn Ripens 12th International Juried Miniature Art Show Art League of Willcox, Willcox AZ February 2008
Honorable Mention: "Nevergreen" Primarily Green Park Avenue Club, Florham Park, NJ September 2006
 

Solo and Two Person Shows

Everyday Illuminations 73 See Gallery, Montclair, NJ August 2011
Carbon Footprints Whippany JCC, Whippany, NJ January 2011
Points of Departure : Rosa Katzenelson & Jo Bradney West Orange JCC, West Orange, NJ January 2010
The Life of a Still Life Park Avenue Club, Florham Park, NJ January 2004

Travelling Shows

Metro 25 City without Walls, Newark, NJ November 2007- November 2008

Juried and Group Shows

BANG!6 1978 Maplewood Arts Center, 1978 Springfield Avenue, Maplewood, NJ December 2011
Metro 28 City Without Walls, Newark, NJ 07102 November 2011
The Art of Relaxation Summit Medical Center, Berkeley Heights, NJ October 2011
31st Juried Mountain Art Show St John on the Mountain, Bernardsville, NJ October 2011
Everyday Illuminations 73 See Gallery, Montclair, NJ August 2011
Members Show 2011 Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ June 2011
Pieced Together New Jersey Arts Incubator, West Orange, NJ July 2011
Perfect Fit The Art School at Old Church, Demarest, NJ Award of Excellence June 2011
Affordable Art Fair Montclair Museum, Montclair, NJ June 2011
19th Invitational Miniature Show The Snow Goose Gallery, Bethlehem, PA May 2011
YEA : IIa Noyes Museum Hammonton, NJ March 2011
YEA : IIb Perkins Art Center Collingswood, NJ February 2011
MASF Annual International Miniature Art Show Dundedin,FL January 2011
Carbon Footprints The Gaelen Gallery West Lautenburg Family JCC, Whippany, NJ January 2011

BANG!5 1978 Gallery, Maplewood, NJ December 2010
Small Wonders Annapolis, MD December 2010
77th Annual International Exhibition of Fine Art in Miniature Bethesda, MD December 2010
30th Annual Mountain Art Show St John on the Mountain, Bernardsville, NJ Award of Merit October 2010
Yo - Emerging Artists Project : New Voices, New Vision Gloucester County College, Deptford, NJ October 2010
Still Life Park Avenue Club, Florham Park, NJ September 2010
Audubon Artists 68th Annual Juried Exhibition Salmagundi Club, 47 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY September 2010
79th Annual Exhibition Hudson Valley Art Association The National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park South, New York, NY July 2010
11th Annual Gaelen Juried Art Show The Gaelen Gallery West Lautenburg Family JCC Whippany, NJ Best Drawing May 2010
The Art of the Miniature XVIII The Snow Goose Gallery Bethlehem, Pennsylvania May 2010
2nd Stock the Food Pantry L&M Gallery, Elizabeth, NJ March 2010
The Cube and I West Orange JCC, West Orange, NJ March 2010
TLC Arts Festival Morris Plains, NJ February 2010
A Celebration of Heart Summit Medical Group, Berkeley Heights, NJ January 2010
Points of Departure : Rosa Katzenelson & Jo Bradney West Orange JCC, West Orange, NJ January 2010

BANG!4 Small Works 1978 Gallery, Maplewood, NJ December 2009
Artscapes : A Celebration of Summer Summit Medical Group, Berkeley Heights, NJ June 2009
10th Annual Gaelen Juried Art Show The Gaelen Gallery West Lautenburg Family JCC Whippany, NJ Best Drawing May 2009
The Art of the Miniature XVII The Snow Goose Gallery Bethlehem, Pennsylvania May 2009
Adult Student Juried Exhibition NJCVA, Summit, NJ April 2009
Stock the Food Pantry L&M Gallery, Elizabeth, NJ March March 2009
34th Annual International Juried Art Show Miniature Art Society of Florida, Dunedin, FL January 2009

5 x 5 x (5) Torpedo Factory Art Center: Target Gallery Alexandria, VA December 2008
26th Annual Exhibit of Miniature Art Cider Painters of America, Vgogh Gallery, Kingston, PA December 2008
BANG!3 Small Works 1978 Gallery, Maplewood, NJ December 2008
24th Annual Juried Exhibition of Miniature Art Chambersburg Council for the Arts, Chambersburg, PA Award of Merit November 2008
8th Annual National Miniature Exhibition Renaissance Gallery Huntington, WV November 2008
18th Annual Miniature Art Show Mondak Heritage Center Sidney, MT December 2008
National Small Works: Painting Main Street Gallery Groton, NY December 2008
4th Annual World of Small Miniature Art Carriage Factory Gallery Newton, KS December 2008
Smallish Island Ford Art Statesville, NC December 2008
25th Annual North American Juried Miniature Art Exhibition Art Gallery of Fells Point, Baltimore, MD Honorable Mention October 2008
A Small Glimpse International Juried Small Works Exhibition Redtree Gallery, Cincinnati, OH September 2008
Mountainside Miniatures Mountainside Art Guild Juried Exhibit Foothills Art Center, Golden, CO September 2008
4th Annual Juried Miniature Art Show Heartland Art Guild, Swan River Museum, Paola, KS Award of Merit: July 2008
The Art of the Miniature Invitational XVI Snow Goose Gallery, Bethlehem PA May 2008
12th International Juried Miniature Art Show Art League of Willcox, Willcox AZ Honorable Mention: February 2008
one, two, three from a series Montclair Library, Montclair NJ January 2008

Metro 25 City without Walls, Newark, NJ Best in Show: Mixed Media December 2007
BANG!2 Small Works 1978 Gallery, Maplewood, NJ December 2007
Small Wonders National Juried Exhibit Maryland Federation of Art, Annapolis MD December 2007
74th Annual International Juried Exhibition of Fine Art in Miniature
Miniature Painters, Sculptors and Gravers Society, Washington DC December 2007
24th Annual Juried Mountain Art Show St John on the Mountain, Bernardsville, NJ September 2007
Inside/Out Park Avenue Club, Florham Park, NJ September 2007
West Orange Arts Festival Juried Art Show West Orange, NJ April 2007
The Cube and I 1978 Gallery, Maplewood, NJ January 2007

BANG! Small Works 1978 Gallery, Maplewood, NJ December 2006
23rd Annual Juried Mountain Art Show Bernardsville, NJ September 2006
NECA Whippany, NJ June 2006
West Orange Arts Festival Juried Art Show West Orange, NJ Best in Show: April 2006

Primarily Green Park Avenue Club, Florham Park, NJ Honorable Mention September 2006
West Orange Arts Festival West Orange, NJ April 2005
Overlook Hospital Summit, NJ March 2005

The Life of a Still Life Park Avenue Club, Florham Park, NJ January 2004
21st Annual Juried Mountain Art Show Bernardsville, NJ September 2004
Millburn Library Millburn NJ 2004
39th Annual Juried Art Exhibition RMAA Ringwood, NJ September 2004
ADP New York, NY June 2004
NJCVA Members Show Summit, NJ Award of Merit June 2004
Overlook Hospital Summit NJ January 2004

Millburn Library Millburn NJ 2003
Springfield Library Springfield NJ 2003
1978 Gallery Maplewood NJ 2003
From Garden to Kitchen to Table Park Avenue Club, Florham Park, NJ Best in Show: September 2003
Overlook Hospital Summit NJ January 2003

Essex Exposed 3 juried exhibition of artists in Essex County, Pierro Gallery, South Orange NJ September 2002
The Priory Newark NJ November 2002
Millburn Library Millburn NJ 2002

Education

Raul Villarreal “Oil Painting for Beginners” NJCVA July 2008
Gerry Heydt “Oil Painting 101” NJCVA January 2008
Barbara Minch “How to Draw” South Orange and Maplewood Adult School January 2002
Member of The Exhibitors’ Co-op, art salon and critique group 2003 - present

Quotes

“Jo Bradney’s masterful and precise use of the colored pencil…harkens back to an earlier period in technique and iconography. We are reminded of the strictly defined compositions so prevalent in Dutch art from centuries ago, images where minute details reveal architectural spaces that manage to maintain an air of mystery in spite of their meticulous rendition.”

Marilyn Kushner, Dept Head, Curator of Prints and Drawings,
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
Exhibition Catalogue Essex Exposed 3: September 2002

"Jo Bradney channels a Hallows Eve magic in “On Harvest Eve”, a buzzing colored-pencil drawing of field grasses flicking a purple fence under a salmon-in-the-sea sky. Despite its delicacy – or because of its delicacy – the image stands out among a host of plastered Currier and Ives postcards.”

Geoff Gehman, Review of Snow Goose Gallery’s 16th Invitational Miniature Show
Go Art, Morning Call, Allentown PA
p6 May 15th 2008

“Jo Bradney also had a simple but comforting oil painting of bottle caps.”

Kevin Mellema, Review of 5 x5 x (5): Torpedo Factory
Northern Virginia Art Beat
Falls Church News: January 2009