About the Artist
Elaine Bradford received her BFA from The University of Texas at Austin in May 2000, and her MFA from California Institute of the Arts in May 2003. She is now living and working in Houston, TX. Through crocheting sweaters for inanimate objects, she references connotations associated with the handmade, and personal ideas of comfort and warmth. These ideas about the process of crocheting are juxtaposed with the absurdity of its application. She has covered a variety of items in handmade sweaters, including trees, vacuum cleaners, and groceries. Her most recent work involves crocheting sweaters for taxidermied animals. She has shown extensively across the United States. Her work has recently been exhibited in group shows at Greenlease Gallery in Kansas City. MO, MassArt in Boston, MA, Bedford Gallery in Walnut Creek, CA and in the Galveston Art Center in Galveston, TX. In 2007 she had solo shows at Women and their Work in Austin, TX, Hunt Gallery in St. Louis, MO, and Cactus Bra in San Antonio, TX. Bradford is the recipient of a 2008 Individual Artist Fellowship Grant from the Houston Arts Alliance.