If Claude Monet had grown up in an Alaskan fishing village — or even Gloucester — his paintings would have looked a little like those of Katherine Bradford. Her gauzy, slightly hallucinatory nautical scenes evoke everything from Moby Dick to Inuit art to epic renditions of British Navy battleships in action on the stormy seas. The images will inspire you to ditch the popped-collar polos and find someone to teach you how to raise the mast sails and ward off pirates. The New York–based painter’s work docks at Samson Gallery (450 Harrison Avenue, Storefront 63, Boston, 617.357.7177).
