JURIED ART SHOWS:
New Mexico Watercolor Society Fall ’98 Show, Albuquerque, NM 1998, received the Paine Webber & Company Award Primavera Paintings, Albuquerque, NM 1996
Western Colorado W.C.S. 5th Annual National Exhibition, Grand Junction, CO 1995
New Mexico Arts and Crafts Fair, Keynote Artists Exhibit, Albuquerque, NM 1993
Celebration of Watercolor, Albuquerque, NM 1993, received the Langell’s art supply merchandise award.
Route 66 Revisited, Gallup, MN 1992
Autumn (Water)colors, Albuquerque, NM 1991
Watercolor: Wet and Wild, Albuquerque, NM 1991

OTHER SHOWS AND NOTABLES:
Evolutions & Transitions: 4 Women, Framing Concepts, 2007
Emigration, Immigration, Migration, Harwood Art Center, Albuquerque, NM 2001
Wet and Wild Show, Framing Concepts, Albuquerque, NM 2001
Featured Artist Exhibition, Cessna Aircraft Corporation, Wichita, KS 1996
A Solo Show, Emporia Arts Council Gallery, Emporia, KS 1995
Water and Earth, a two-artist show, Framing Concepts, Albuquerque, NM 1995
Four Women Eclectic Show, KiMo Theatre Gallery, Albuquerque, NM 1992
Received First Place in the category of Literary Magazines Artwork for the Rocky Mountain Collegiate Media Association fourteen state competition, March 1999
Published children’s book illustrator: Blind Tom: The Horse Who Helped Build the Great Railroad, author Shirley Raye Redmond, illustrator Lois Bradley. Mountain Press Publishing Company, Missoula, MT. 2009. ISBN 978-0-87842-558-7

The Artists Statement:: 
                                                                           “Influences”
When an artist creates images, it is through the prism of personal experiences and influences. Lois Bradley’s prism includes memories of a childhood watching solid farm women working the land alongside the men by day and gathering at night to create quilts from cast-off garments and scraps of fabric. The sense of feminine community working towards a common goal; the intimacy of shared work load and the contrast of soft fabric to calloused hands plays a descant to the role she performs.

The images in the Quilted Landscapes series are an extension of those memories. The layered mixed media on cotton and wood emulate the physical layers of a quilt. The loosely gridded blocks dip and weave through the landscape, echoing a quilt's squares and rectangles. Landscape and the feminine influence on it are as inextricable as the layers of a well-worn quilt.

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