William Bradley I Was Woken By a Bang 2023 Acrylic and board on canvas 79 x 144 x 5 in 200.7 x 365.8 x 12.7 cm (WB038). Images courtesy of the artist, William Bradley, and Lowell Ryan Projects, Los Angeles, CA. Photographs by Charles White at JWPictures.com

‘Giant Country’ by William Bradley @ Lowell Ryan Projects

October 6, 2023

Lowell Ryan Projects presents us with a wonderful introduction to geometric form with their ‘Giant Country’ open by William Bradley. We are immersed with otherwise perfunctory emblems to construction exactness; even though the coarse approximations bring out more of the concept of order than the decision to be proud of man’s capable of exacting completeness in Nature (see civilized man, such as Egypt, Ur, Aztec, Maya).

William Bradley
Just Through There
2022
Construction paper and
archival tape
5 x 4.7 in
12.5 x 12 cm
Frame:
16.5h x 15.5w x 1.8d in
41.9h x 39.4w x 4.6d cm
(WB014).
Images courtesy of the artist, William Bradley, and Lowell Ryan
Projects, Los Angeles, CA. Photographs by Charles White at
JWPictures.com

Grand Mosque, Djenne

Kheops-Pyramid

 

Chichen Itza

Ziggurat of Ur

William Bradley
Riot of the Day
2023
Acrylic and board on canvas
78 x 144 x 3 in
198.1 x 365.8 x 7.6 cm
(WB040). Images courtesy of the artist, William Bradley, and Lowell Ryan
Projects, Los Angeles, CA. Photographs by Charles White at
JWPictures.com

And it is this introductory perspective which would be enticing to reveal to young impressionable minds. The menagerie of ideas, seen with Just Through There and Dream, Dream, Dream bring out an excitation of novelty to order, rather than disorder. This movement towards harmony is the demonstration of order in the world. And with order, there is the invitation to understanding balance. And with this understanding, there is the ability to relate to justice as beautiful because it is harmonious, not hostile.

 

William Bradley
Dream, Dream, Dream
2022
Construction paper and
archival tape
4.8 x 3.6 in
12 x 9 cm
Frame:
16.5h x 15.5w x 1.8d in
41.9h x 39.4w x 4.6d cm
(WB013). Courtesy

Yet how can we be so certain that the validation of harmony it clearly visible? Is not the sense of that order more sensual than in an orderly invisible appreciation of what is extended out into completeness? Do we not have a more acoustic understanding of harmony than, Somewhere Only We Know with its blue gradients and extension from the canvas? And yet it is precisely this expansion of the idea of the root-note to peace which can be so inviting to young children to resonate with in a classroom or play area (dimensions of 6.3”x5”).

 

William Bradley
Somewhere Only We Know
2021
Construction paper and
archival tape
6.3 x 5 in
16 x 13 cm
Frame:
16.5h x 15.5w x 1.8d in
41.9h x 39.4w x 4.6d cm
(WB012). Images courtesy of the artist, William Bradley, and Lowell Ryan
Projects, Los Angeles, CA. Photographs by Charles White at
JWPictures.com

In relating to bringing fine art to young minds, let us also further appreciate the introduction to preciousness with the choice of media used in the craft. The construction paper helps with an innocent approachability to each of the works. That approach can tempt to touch (particularly of the larger, child-scaled, forms). And it is here where self-control can truly originate, in helping increase successful instances of denial of willpower in the young children’s memories, thus giving them greater discipline as they age into adulthood.

 

This artwork can be seen as beautiful pedagogical devices, to relax the mind in knowing that there can be peace constructed.

 

For more information please contact the gallery:

Lowell Ryan Projects

4619 W. Washington Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90016

Tuesday – Saturday: 11am – 6pm
and by appointment

+1 323 413 2584

Contact: info@lowellryanprojects.com

Instagram: @lowellryanprojects

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