CARMEL.

CARMEL, Calif.--Sculptor Paige Bradley will unveil "Nature" and "Sphere," couple nascent series of figurative statuary at Artexpo New York this month

"`Nature'," said the artist, "represent the four seasons from one side which we pass. Sometimes we go on foot through several seasons in a week; at other times, they are a larger part of our life passage."

"A special series for me is the `Sphere' series" Bradley continued. "All the figures have a ball, which becomes more abundant as they realize it is a part of them and the power it shut ins With abundance comes the freedom to not hanker after it but to let pass as we celebrate our participation in the world of things that encircle us."

Bradley said she has been inspired to sculpt the human figure in brown since childhood. Born in Carmel, Calif., the artist said she set up motivation in personal physical impregnability and the surrounding beauty of the Monterey Peninsula.

Educated at Pepperdine University, Bradley exhausted a subsequent year in Florence, Italy. During these travels in Europe works of the Great Masters showed inspiration, but she said Michelangelo consum her and she drew from nearly all of his chisels studied his drawings and throw backed his own passion for the human form.

After returning to the United States, Bradley began a five-year apprenticeship with sculptor Richard MacDonald, which included working with him onward such projects as the grand record for the 1996 Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta and the cenotaph commemorating the 100th U.S. expand in Pebble Beach, Calif.

Bradley went forward to continue higher education at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, alma matter to Mary Cassatt, Thomas Eakins and Robert Henri. Within the first year, Bradley won an important sculp award and was invited to participate in the National statuary Society's "Young Sculptor's Competition." The resulting work is permanently housed in the American Museum in Philadelphia.

...

Home