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(1974-)
Born in Carmel, California Paige Bradley knew she would be an artist by the age of nine. Immersed in nature and art, Bradley's fascination with the human figure began early. She believed that through the figure an artist could speak a universal language that is timeless and essential.
Paige Bradley started drawing from the nude model by the age of ten and by fifteen was studying intensely at university campuses during the summer months. Knowing that she was naturally a sculptor, at seventeen she cast her first bronze sculpture.
Educated at Pepperdine University, Paige spent a year in Florence, Italy with the university’s study program. There she took classes at the Florence Academy of Art, which included art history. Upon returning to the U.S. in 1994, Bradley left Pepperdine and entered into what would be a ten year apprenticeship with renowned sculptor Richard MacDonald. She went on to continue her education at the prestigious Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, where she studied sculpture and learned to paint and print in several different mediums. Her work remains in the Pennsylvania Museum of Fine Arts.
In 1995 she was assistant sculptor on a monument for the Atlanta Olympic Games. In 2001 she was voted into the National Sculpture Society, the Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club and The Salmagundi Club as a professional sculptor. In 2006 one of her sculptures was selected to become a prestigious international award for young dancers. A replica of the sculpture is now awarded to a talented dancer selected by a panel of judges annually from Ballet International.
Annually, Paige Bradley has several solo exhibitions, and her work can be seen in selected galleries throughout the world. In 2004 she moved her studio from California to New York City. In the spring of 2007, she moved to London, where she worked until 2016. Paige now resides and works full time again in the United States. Her work is housed in prominent public and private collections across the globe, among them, actress Nicole Kidman, radio personality Robin Quivers, architect and designer Campion Platt and music producer Harvey Goldsmith.
Paige’s work is full of dichotomies: both the beautiful and the ugly, the liberated and the contained, the falling and the floating. She is always in control of form but not imprisoned by its literality. The subject matter becomes the most important -- not narrowly feminist, but rather humanistic betrayals of modern emotion. Paige’s work is becoming a valuable keystone for the missing figure in contemporary art. Entering the middle of her career, Paige Bradley’s talent and artistic achievements have already gained her much notoriety.
Artist's Statement.
Focusing on tensions and liberations in my work, I feel most of our emotions are locked into a existential cocoon. My sculptures show the human race as a singular individual searching for connection but finding only alienation.
My recent work has become a symbol of struggle -- both being contained and liberating ourselves from self-inflicted boundaries. Fears of ostracism, avoiding distinction and hiding from greatness are all thoughts that come to mind. These fears create sculptures wrapped in extraordinary tension. The figures struggle to unveil themselves in order to become understood and known. These bound figures give me a sense of unrest as if too much life is jammed into too restrictive of space. I feel as if I am trying to live my truth free and unveiled in a society that would rather keep us contained.
From the moment we are born, the world tends to have a container already built for us to fit inside: a social security number, a gender, a race, a profession, an I.Q. I ponder if we are more defined by the container we are in than what we are inside. Would we recognize ourselves if we could expand beyond our bodies?
Would we still be able to exist if we are authentically “un-contained”?
I attempt to expand my sculptures beyond the human flesh of the figure and create the brilliance within us. Simultaneously, I cannot help but to see a dangerous dichotomy between falling apart and expanding beyond our limitations. When devastation becomes deliverance, ashes from the past can become the foundations of the future.
"Those who do not move do not notice their chains." - Rosa Luxemburg
(1974-)
Born in Carmel, California Paige Bradley knew she would be an artist by the age of nine. Immersed in nature and art, Bradley's fascination with the human figure began early. She believed that through the figure an artist could speak a universal language that is timeless and essential.
Paige Bradley started drawing from the nude model by the age of ten and by fifteen was studying intensely at university campuses during the summer months. Knowing that she was naturally a sculptor, at seventeen she cast her first bronze sculpture.
Educated at Pepperdine University, Paige spent a year in Florence, Italy with the university’s study program. There she took classes at the Florence Academy of Art, which included art history. Upon returning to the U.S. in 1994, Bradley left Pepperdine and entered into what would be a ten year apprenticeship with renowned sculptor Richard MacDonald. She went on to continue her education at the prestigious Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, where she studied sculpture and learned to paint and print in several different mediums. Her work remains in the Pennsylvania Museum of Fine Arts.
In 1995 she was assistant sculptor on a monument for the Atlanta Olympic Games. In 2001 she was voted into the National Sculpture Society, the Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club and The Salmagundi Club as a professional sculptor. In 2006 one of her sculptures was selected to become a prestigious international award for young dancers. A replica of the sculpture is now awarded to a talented dancer selected by a panel of judges annually from Ballet International.
Annually, Paige Bradley has several solo exhibitions, and her work can be seen in selected galleries throughout the world. In 2004 she moved her studio from California to New York City. In the spring of 2007, she moved to London, where she worked until 2016. Paige now resides and works full time again in the United States. Her work is housed in prominent public and private collections across the globe, among them, actress Nicole Kidman, radio personality Robin Quivers, architect and designer Campion Platt and music producer Harvey Goldsmith.
Paige’s work is full of dichotomies: both the beautiful and the ugly, the liberated and the contained, the falling and the floating. She is always in control of form but not imprisoned by its literality. The subject matter becomes the most important -- not narrowly feminist, but rather humanistic betrayals of modern emotion. Paige’s work is becoming a valuable keystone for the missing figure in contemporary art. Entering the middle of her career, Paige Bradley’s talent and artistic achievements have already gained her much notoriety.
Artist's Statement.
Focusing on tensions and liberations in my work, I feel most of our emotions are locked into a existential cocoon. My sculptures show the human race as a singular individual searching for connection but finding only alienation.
My recent work has become a symbol of struggle -- both being contained and liberating ourselves from self-inflicted boundaries. Fears of ostracism, avoiding distinction and hiding from greatness are all thoughts that come to mind. These fears create sculptures wrapped in extraordinary tension. The figures struggle to unveil themselves in order to become understood and known. These bound figures give me a sense of unrest as if too much life is jammed into too restrictive of space. I feel as if I am trying to live my truth free and unveiled in a society that would rather keep us contained.
From the moment we are born, the world tends to have a container already built for us to fit inside: a social security number, a gender, a race, a profession, an I.Q. I ponder if we are more defined by the container we are in than what we are inside. Would we recognize ourselves if we could expand beyond our bodies?
Would we still be able to exist if we are authentically “un-contained”?
I attempt to expand my sculptures beyond the human flesh of the figure and create the brilliance within us. Simultaneously, I cannot help but to see a dangerous dichotomy between falling apart and expanding beyond our limitations. When devastation becomes deliverance, ashes from the past can become the foundations of the future.
"Those who do not move do not notice their chains." - Rosa Luxemburg
Soaring.
Bronze. Edition of 25. 35 x 12 x 34".
Believe.
Bronze. Edition of 25. 26 x 5 x 4".
Believe Column.
Bronze. Edition of 12. 74 x 12 x 12".
Conception Column.
Bronze. 80 x 12 x 12". Edition of 12.
Conception Column.
Bronze. Edition of 12. 80 x 12 x 12".
Soar.
Bronze. Edition of 25. 21 x 9 x 9".
Soar Column.
Bronze. Edition of 12. 74 x 12 x 12".
Bow.
Bronze. Edition of 25. 39 x 21 x 12".
Madelyn in Red.
Bronze. Edition of 25. 15 x 8 x 8".
Birth.
Bronze. Edition of 50. 20 x 5 x 8".
Birth.
Column. Bronze. Edition of 12. 67.25 x 14 x 13".
Evolution.
Bronze. Edition of 12. 30 x 36 x 10".
Vertigo Studies.
Bronze. 8" variable.
Balance.
Lifesize. Bronze. 84 x 41 x 63". Also available in half life and maquette scale.
Academia.
Bronze. 30 x 7 x 5". Also available on column.
Academia Column.
Bronze. Edition of 12. 74 x 15 x 31".
Academia II.
Bronze. Edition of 25. 30 x 27 x 5".
Erato.
Bronze. Edition of 25. 35.5 x 10.5 x 14".
Erato Column.
Bronze. Edition of 12. 74 x 12 x 12".
Release.
Half Life. Bronze. Edition of 12. 43 x 20 x 20".
Wrapped.
Bronze and silk. 20 x 5 x 8".
Harmony Column.
Bronze. Edition of 12. 67.5 x 24 x 17".
Couture.
Bronze. Edition of 12. 21 x 14 x 28".
Dreamer.
Bronze. L x 12 x 20". Edition of 8.
Balance.
Column. Bronze. Edition of 12. 72" tall.
Balance.
Bronze. Third life. Edition of 50. 32 x 24 x 16".
Aspire.
Bronze. Edition of 25. 35.5 x 10.5 x 14".
Ballet Femme.
Bronze. Edition of 18. 30.5 x 27" x 13".
Liberty.
Bronze. 30 x 14 x 12".
Momentum.
Bronze. Edition of 25. 18.5 x 26.5 x 13.25".
Visionary Column.
Bronze 75 x 12 x 12". Edition of 8.
Visionary Column.
In the New York home of Campion Platt as seen in Architectural Digest.
Freedom Bound.
Bronze and Silk. 21 x 28 x 15". Edition of 8.
Source.
Bronze. Edition of 50. 14 x 10 x 9".
Summer.
Column. Bronze. Edition of 12. 72" H.
In the Studio with Principal Dancer, Alexsandra Meijer.
Paige Bradley working in her London studio with ABT and San Jose Ballet Principal, Alexsandra Meijer.