The torture of a turning phrase, which I, in turn, have turned withal. Danger in the solitary cell tucked away in a corner of a nearly forgotten wing of the dungeon city of Saint Francis! What torments await the one who presumes to while away the days of boredom and the nights of horrific visions and condemnatory apparitions of abstract transgression with the soothing balm of pen and scraps of aloe leaf smuggled into my traitor's cell by the hand of a sympathetic sentry, moved by the eloquence of a terrorist's forbidden locutions? Thrice-crowned, candy-striped antenna transmitting invisible beams of sound and sight, panopticon of an encyclopedic yet elusive mind, hurling globs of homogenizing circus manna onto the wilderness of hills and trollies below, a reign of terror broadcast nightly from the blade edge of the guillotine, slicing succinctly this age of consent into equal halves of fervor and farce, your will is closely guarded, like this contrabandist's prison, but your intentions are as opaque as the steel tripod bracing your colossal insolence. From the archer's slit in an otherwise hermetic chamber the torture of a turning phrase rides my line of sight directly to your triple coronet, your tripartite aspiration of the subjugation of past, present and future which I, in turn, have aspired to turn without, and which has left me nameless in a land of compulsory cross-references.
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
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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