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Paige Bradley :: Biography
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. She went on to continue her education at the prestigous Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, where she studied sculpture and learned to paint and print in several different mediums.

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 CLWAC and The Salmagundi Club as a professional sculptor. In 2006 one of her sculptures was selected and made into 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.

Paige Bradley has several national solo shows, and her work can be seen in galleries across the US. In 2004 she moved her studio from California to New York City. In the spring of 2007 she moved to London, where she currently works full time.

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. Only in her early thirties, Paige Bradley's talent and artistic achievements have already gained her much notoriety.