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The first environmentally reactive works were the two-dimensional Contingency Series begun in the early eighties. They prompted a search for a way to make sculptures that would also be reactive, but additionally would change shape. These sculptures began ten years later in 1993 with Copper Works, Indeterminacy Stones in 1994, Waterstones in 1999, and the Notation Series and Material/Immaterial Stones in 2000.

The Indeterminacy Stones consisted of a pyrite set atop a piece of marble and left outdoors to weather. The pyrite, transformed into limonite when exposed to the elements, leaves a permanent iron rust stain. It may take less than ten years or over a century to dissolve depending on com-position and environment. For the first exhibition of these works three boulders were gathered—one flat, one vertical, one wedge shaped. Ann Barclay Morgan wrote, "... the action of “bleeding”...could be seen as the female life-force in the process of being released. The transformation into the deep colored limonite lends a sensuous quality to the marble.”		  

                   

 



 

 

 

Indeterminacy I, 1994
Activated November 1994; photographed January 1996 
Carrara marble, pyrite; 9 x 17 x 11 inches                                     
Collection of Kristen and Stefan Mordhost, Copenhagen

 

  

Indeterminacy Cube, 1995
Activated September 1995; photographed September 2012
Vermont marble, pyrite
8 ¼ x 6 x 6 inches

  

Indeterminacy II, 1995     
Activated June 1995; photographed October 1995 
Vermont marble, pyrite; 31 x 39 x 25 inches                                    
Collection of Dr. and Mrs. David Rabinovitz, Kings Point, New York

  

Indeterminacy IV                                                           
Activated June 1995; photographed October 1995 
Vermont marble, pyrite; 24 x 37 x 30 inches                            
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

  

Indeterminacy II, III, IV
Installation: Sandra Gering Gallery, New York, 1995 

  

Indeterminacy III , 1995        
Activated June 1995; photographed December 1996                                                                                  
Vermont marble, pyrite; 24 x 37 x 30 inches                            
Buckhorn Sculpture Park, Westchester, New York

 

  

Indeterminacy III , 1995        
Activated June 1995; photographed September 1998 		  

Indeterminacy III , 1995        
Activated June 1995; photographed January 2000

  

Indeterminacy III, 1995        
Activated June 1995; photographed March 2002

  

Indeterminacy XV, 1997
Activated July 1997; photographed August 1998
Vermont marble, pyrite; 24 x 96 x 40 inches
Fields Sculpture Park, Art Omi, Ghent, New York

  

Indeterminacy XIV, 1997
Activated May 1997; photographed August 1998
Cararra marble, pyrite; 7 x 11 x 10 inches
Home Gallery, Bisticci, Italy, 1998

  

Indeterminacy XIII, 1997
Activated May 1997; photographed August 1998
Cararra marble, pyrite; 24 x 38 x 23 inches  
Home Gallery, Bisticci, Italy, 1998

  

Indeterminacy XVIII, 1997
Activated June 1997; photographed: July 1999 
Vermont marble, pyrite; 28 x 26 x 30 inches
Fields Sculpture Park, Art OMI, International Art Center, Ghent, New York		  

Indeterminacy IV, XV, XVIII
with S, Contingency paintings and Passion [collection: The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles]
Dove Bradshaw, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 1998

  

Indeterminacy IX, 1996
Activated February 1996; photographed August 1997 
Vermont marble, pyrite; 7 x 5 x 5 3/4 inches                                  
Estate of Merce Cunningham, New York		  

Indeterminacy XVI, 1997
Activated July 1997; photographed August 1998
Quartz, pyrite, 34 x 38 x 35 inches
Collection of the artist, Laporte, Pennsylvania

  

Indeterminacy XI, 1996
Acitvated March 1996; photographed September 1999
Carrara marble, pyrite; 15 x 21 x 22 inches 
Collection Norman James and Janette Bower James, New York

 

Indeterminacy XIII, 1996
Acitvated March 1996; photographed September 1999
Vermont marble, pyrite; 8 x 12 x 9 inches 
Collection of the artist		  
Indeterminacy V, 1995
Vermont marble, pyrite
30 x 68 x 48 inches
Donated by Sue Strober
Fields Art OMI, Ghent, NY, 2016		  

Material/Immaterial I, 2000
Activated October; Photographed January 2001    
Spring and aged calcareous tuffa stone, 10 x 16 x 16 inches
Collection of the artist     


  

Material/Immaterial I, 2000
Another view     

  

Material/Immaterial II, 2000
Activated September 2000; photographed 2001
Spring and aged calcareous tuffa stone; 20 x 42 x 25 inches
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde, Denmark, 2001

  

Material/Immaterial III, IV, 2000
Activated September 2000; photographed 2001
Spring and aged calcareous tuffa stone, front stone: 22 x 18 x 16 inches
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde, Denmark, 2001		  

Material/Immaterial II, III, IV, 2000
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde, Denmark, 2001

  

Notation VII, 2000, Limestone, copper, 16 x 12 x 12 inches
Collection Mary Ehni and Stephen Frailey, New York
Elizabeth Street Garden Project, 2014
Curator: Serra Sabuncuoglu



The artist's vestibule, Material/Immaterial with Contingency [Snow Melt], 2015, New York City


   

Material/Immaterial next to a Japanese White Pine

Noguchi designed the garden for his museum selecting Weeping Beech, Bamboo, Birch and White Pine, among others, interested in seeing how his work interacted with nature. Museum of Stones, curated by Dakin Hart in 2015 was the first time that other artists had been shown in the forty years of the museum's existence. Five of Bradshaw's outdoor sculptures were placed in the garden where they could weather; they were the only work besides Noguchi's in that setting.

 

Material/Immaterial, 2015
Activated October 2015; photographed January 2016
Museum of Stones, Noguchi Museum, New York, 2015-2016
Calcareous tuffa stone, granite, 22 x 12 x 12 3/4 inches
Collection of the artist, New York

 

Indeterminacy V, 1996 Left
Activated June 1996; photographed October 2015
Vermont.marble, pyrite
6 x 15 x 11 inches
Collection: Mary Ehni and Stephen Frailey, New York

Indeterminacy XI, 1996 Right
Activated October 1996; photographed January 2016
Carrara marble, pyrite; 15 x 21 x 22 inches
Collection Norman James and Janette Bower James, New York

Museum of Stones, Noguchi Museum, New York, 2015-2016

  

Indeterminacy XI, 1996
Activated October 1996; photographed January 2016
Carrara marble, pyrite; 15 x 21 x 22 inches  
Collection Norman James and Janette Bower James, New York
Museum of Stones, Noguchi Museum, New York, 2015-2016

  

Notation VII, 2000
Limestone, copper; 16 x 12 x 12 inches
Collection Mary Ehni and Stephen Frailey, New York

Isamu Noguchi, Illusion of the Fifth Stone, 1970
Aji granite, 47 5/8 x 66½ x 57 inches

 

Waterstone, 1996-present
Limestone, 12 x 12 x 12 inches, 1000 ML separatory funnel, water in fair weather,
vodka during the winter months hanging from a Weeping Cherry
Museum of Stones, The Noguchi Museum, Queens, New York, 2015-2016

  

Waterstone, 1996-present
Limestone, 12 x 12 x 12 inches, 1000 ml separatory funnel, vodka
Collection of the artist

Isamu Noguchi, Illusion of the Fifth Stone, 1970
Aji granite, 47 5/8 x 66 1/2 x 57 inches
Museum of Stones, The Noguchi Museum, Queens, New York, 2015-2016		  

Waterstone, 1996-present
Limestone, 1000 ML separatory funnel, water in fair weather,
vodka during the winter months hanging from a Red Wood
Limestone cube: 12 x 12 x 12 inches
Nexus, Sculpture Now, The Mount
Edith Wharton Estate
Becket, Massachusetts, 2017

  

Notation XI, 2000-present
Limestone, copper; 16 x 12 x 12 inches
Collection of the artist
WORDXWORD through Sculpture Now,
The Mount, Edith Wharton Estate
Becket, Massachusetts, 2018

  

Notation Imploded I, 2018
Bluestone, copper; 15 x 12 x 12 inches
Collection of the artist
Sculpture Now, The Mount, Edith Wharton Estate
Becket, Massachusetts, 2019

  

Notation Imploded II, 2019
Pennsylvania Bluestone, copper, ammonium chloride copper sulfate
15 x 10 x 10 inches
Collection of the artist

  

Spent Bullet [Mercedes Chartreuse 2018], 2015/2018
ABS resin, car paint; 8½ x 18½ x 16½ inches
The cottage was built beginning in 1932 by the artist's father
and uncle when they were children. Neither became architects.
Laporte, Pennsylvania, 2018

  

Indeterminacy XX, 2018
Activated June 2018; photographed October 2019
Vermont marble, pyrite
8½ x 6 x 6 inches
Collection of the artist, Endless Mountains, Pennsylvania, 2019

 

Notation With Prism, 2019
Pennsylvania Bluestone, copper; 16 x 12 x 12 inches
Collection of the artist, Endless Mountains, Pennsylvania