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Paige Bradley is an American born artist and sculptor.

Early life and education

Born in [[1]], California, Bradley knew from an early age that she wanted to become an artist. A high school teacher noticed her talent and encouraged her to enter a local competition, for which she cast her first bronze – the winning entry – at the age of 17.

Bradley received a full scholarship to study art at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California. She enrolled in 1992. But the school’s conservative Christian ethos did not allow students to draw from live nude models, which Bradley had been doing since she was ten years old. Rather, she and her fellow art students had to “learn” anatomy by drawing their teachers fully clothed. This was an obstacle for someone whose passion for figurative art required a thorough grounding in human anatomy.

As part of the Pepperdine curriculum, Bradley spent her sophomore year studying abroad in Florence, Italy. But the program offered no studio art classes, so she took night drawing classes at the Florence Academy to keep her skills sharp. She also traveled throughout Europe in committed pursuit of all things relating to and created by [[2]]. “I wanted to stand where he stood and see what he saw,” she says.3

Upon returning to the U.S. in 1994, Bradley left Pepperdine and entered into what would be a ten-year apprenticeship with sculptor [MacDonald]. She began by performing the most menial tasks and eventually worked with him on large projects, such as The Flair, which was commissioned for the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games. During that time, she also enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. Her talent earned an invitation to participate in the National Sculpture Society’s “Young Sculptors Competition.” Her work remains in the Pennsylvania Museum of Fine Arts. But even there, at he nation’s oldest classical art school, she encountered bias against the figure. One professor, she recalls, told her, “You’ll tire of the figure when you’ve matured.”

Artistic Analysis

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 – focusing on humanistic betrayals of modern emotion. Her work shows the human race as a singular individual searching for connection but finding only alienation. Recently, it has become a symbol of struggle, both being contained and liberating ourselves from self-inflicted boundaries.[1] She feels as though she is trying to live her truth free and unveiled in a society that would rather keep us contained. Paige's work is becoming a valuable keystone for the missing figure in contemporary art.

Public Art

Awards and Recognition

  • 2009 - Gold Medal of Honor, The Allied Artists of American, Annual Juried Exhibition
  • 2006 - Third Place Award, 4th Annual A.R.C. Salon, Online International Exhibition
  • 2005 - Lindsey Morris Memorial Award, Allied Artists of America Show
  • 2004 - Leonard Meiselman Memorial Award, Pen and Brush
  • 2004 - Third Place Award, Women Artists of the West
  • 2003 - Young Sculptor Award, Viselaya Sculpture Competition
  • 1997 - Ramborger Prize, Outstanding Achievement at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
  • 1996 - Stewardson Award, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
  • 1989-1992 - California Arts Scholars Medal, California State (award to high school talent)

References

  1. ^ http://paigebradley.com/about/bio.html


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