Bradley Williams – Walking Home From the Grief Mine

This exhibition round includes works provided by Bradley Williams which will be on view in the First Floor West Gallery from November 27, 2024 – February 8, 2025.  Lowe Mill A&E invites patrons and art lovers to join us for Open Studio Night, a building-wide experience when our over 150 studios will be open to the public.  The evening also includes receptions for all seven of our gallery spaces. This series gives the public a chance to meet and interact with visiting artists and discuss their work as it is on display and available for purchase. Come out, enjoy a pleasant evening, and maybe you’ll find that special piece of art that speaks to you!  The Open Studio Night reception is Saturday, February 8 from 5-7 pm.

 

About the exhibit:

In 2015 standing in an open field from my youth, consumed with grief and confusion, I burned all my journals and notebooks. Then the next morning I began writing, searching for all I lost. Years stack on until the lockdowns of 2020. In the process of another round of loss I began a conversation with myself to help me reconnect to the world—specifically what was before me—my small patch of dirt and the Southern California areas known as the San Gabriel Mountains and the edges of the Western Mojave Desert. These pieces started as a notebook full of small drawings set forth as a single circle drawn through and with a breath, followed by sketching a simple rendition of the landscape before me, or what was seen through memory, then allowing for a lose/free thought to arrive as words in an attempt to stitch up the moment. With encouragement from friends it then began to evolve to these points.

About the artist:

Bradley grew up in a memory he calls Lizard Lope, Alabama, more commonly referred to as St. Clair County. He is a member of two labor unions and a graduate of Auburn University. Currently he lives and works in Los Angeles, California. He walks a lot, writes poems, longer stories, as well as a song two. He quit drinking over a year ago.

 

Instagram: @goatswamp

 

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