The Hyperboreans have infiltrated the database, black paintings line the Avenue of the Americas disguised as logos and window displays, a concise and timely expression of negation in an age of information affirmation. Pod People fill the sidewalks with revisionist histories of Modernism and its myriad heresies both pro- and contra-Self, the line being vague and the Pods having no room in their shopping bags for ambiguity or frivolity above and beyond the immediately frivolous. Galleries paint their walls black in gestures of fear, last-ditch endeavors to stave off a debilitating illness the absence of which impossibly hovers just beyond the periphery of what gallerists deem pleasing to the (anti-)eye. Negation takes many forms and flees various foes. Guilt paints the past black, repressed memories fill the cinemas and fuel the firestorm linking Iran's fanciful nuclear program, the inevitability of World War III, and the "age of irony." One hundred years ago, Kazimir Malevich foresaw the implosion, the Self-fueled Self-destruction of "the American way of life," and manifested it as an angelic apparition of Lenin as a black square, crushing the bourgeois decadents under the weight of an infinite density, a chain reaction of matter which has begun to question whether anything matters.
BIOGRAPHY
James Bradley
jamesdanielbradley@gmail.com
Education
California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Master of Fine Arts Degree awarded May 2009
California State University, San Bernardino, CA
Bachelor of Arts Degree awarded June 2003
Selected Exhibitions
2013
"Annual Small Works Juried Competition," Greenpoint Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2012
"Streetopia," The Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"How We Leave and Return: Intersections of Art and History," Angel Island Visitor Center, Angel Island, CA
2011
"Enter Batgirl, Exit Illuminazi," Maniac Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2010
"Out of the Flat Files," Triple Base Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"The Something," Sight School, Oakland, CA
"The S.S.S.S.S.S. Presents: Obama Trauma," Artists' Television Access, San Francisco, CA
2009
"How to Survive Y2K: MIAMI 00-09," Maniac Gallery at Verge Art Fair, Miami, FL
"The Something," Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"Wrong!" 21 Grand, Oakland, CA
"Novus Taedium Seclorum," Maniac Gallery, Oakland and Los Angeles, CA
"Children of the Revolution," Federal Art Project, Los Angeles, CA
"2009 MFA Show," California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
"Media Arts End-Of-Semester Juried Show," Timkin Hall, California College of the Arts, San Francisco CA
"The Sketchbook Show," Orange Alley Project, San Francisco, CA
"Out of the Flat Files II," Triple Base Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"Post-Bling," PLAySPACE Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"The Paradox of the Sets," Onsix Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"Rock Paper Scissor," Robert Berman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
"For Lovers and Fighters," Spare Room Project, San Francisco, CA
"Sweet and Matchless," PLAySPACE Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"Illusion Helps," Orange Alley Project, San Francisco, CA
2008
“As Above So Below,” Photo Epicenter, San Francisco, CA
“There is Nothing Funny About a Clown in the Moonlight,” Artists’ Television Access, San Francisco, CA
“Mission School Resume Writing Workshop,” PLAySPACE Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“I’m Scared Because There’s Only One Of You,” SoCha, San Francisco, CA
“Ready to Pop,” Blankspace Gallery, Oakland, CA
“FTW AKA PMA,” The Tricycle Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“The Rainbow Show,” Café Royale, San Francisco, CA
2007
“All Artists Circle,” North/South Gallery, Oakland, CA
“The Notebook Show,” PLAySPACE Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2006
“Ender’s Game,” The Pixel Palace, Riverside, CA
2005
"Swans And Automatons," Castle of Sleep, Riverside, CA
“Coming Home: Art Alumni Exhibition,” Robert V. Fullerton Museum, San Bernardino, CA
2004
Group Exhibition, Qtopia, Los Angeles, CA
“Neon Hates You,” The Smell, Los Angeles, CA
2003
Group Exhibition, The Generator, Los Angeles, CA
"Say It Ain't So, Kobe," Casa Del Pueblo, Los Angeles CA
“We Rule The School,” Robert V. Fullerton Museum, San Bernardino, CA
"All Looks and No Content," Robert V. Fullerton Museum, San Bernardino, CA
2002
Group Exhibition, Arts on 5th, San Bernardino, CA
“Digress Benefit Show,” Riverside Community Arts Association, Riverside, CA
2001
"Saturation," Back to the Grind, Riverside, CA
Group Exhibition, The People's Gallery, Riverside, CA
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