ROME, ITALY.- Senzatitolo presents Dove Bradshaw’s first exhibition in Italy. She will exhibit installations, paintings and sculptures that incorporate the element of time. Her silver Contingency Pour (1996), from a series begun in the early eighties, has been chemically-activated to react to changing atmospheric conditions. Weather serves as a catalyst in her Indeterminacy and Material/ Immaterial works which slowly capture transient metamorphoses in marble, pyrite and copper. In other works Bradshaw sets into motion the gradual erosion of stone and salt, using water as the transformative agent. In Waterstone from 1996 water slowly erodes a limestone block. The centerpiece of this exhibition, Negative Ions II, a salt work also from 1996, has been exhibited widely. Unique in this installation, its water-filled funnel hung eyelevel releases drop by drop through a square opening in the floor down to a salt mound a story below. During the exhibition the salt will continuously re-crystallize.

Dove Bradshaw was born in New York City where she continues to live and work. Beginning in 1969, she pioneered the use of Indeterminacy in sculpture, painting, performance and film. By persistently relinquishing control, she took Conceptual Art in a sensuous direction. Her early fusion of scientific exploration with art practice has anticipated activities of later generations by several decades. Some of her gestures toward Indeterminacy have embraced the chance positioning of work, the use of materials particularly susceptible to weather and indoor atmosphere, the unpredictability of birds, the gradual erosion of water, or the use of inherently unstable substances such as acetone, mercury and sulfur. Bradshaw’s work has been exhibited in US, Europe and Asia. Her work is included in many private collections and in quite a few permanent collections at public museums and galleries.