A few videos and links
About The Artist
From "Feel Herd" a solo exhibition in 2014
at Hillsborough Community College- Ybor City
Best known for his public art pieces, Tampa-born sculptor Bradley Arthur presents a sampling of his four decades of object making.This exhibition includes a diverse range of mediums including cast bronze, traditional metal, found object assemblage and text based sculpture. Often controversial, his 3-D language integrates and re-frames the common object into a transformed entity which stimulates deeper investigation.
3 minute video
"FeelHerd" video from Feel Herd exhibition 2014
Interactive Texted Based Sculpture
A 1 minute video from the opening of the exhibition which includes a diverse range of mediums including cast bronze, traditional metal, found object assemblage and text based sculpture.
"WMD - WORDS/weapons"
2004
An original metal "Shadow Thoughts" texted based sculpture video from 2014 exhibition
Now in the permanent collection at the Museum of Fine Arts
Florida State University, Tallahassee
see wordsweapons.com a video from the exhibition "Waging Peace" at FSU
1 minute video
"IdolWarship"
Interactive Texted Based Sculpture
1 minute Video of Arthur discussing his artwork ahile being interviewed for
"Art in Your Ear" WMNF.org - 88.5fm
2014
Bradley Arthur sculptor -1981
"Mixed Media" Channel 3 PBS- Tampa Bay
From the television series produced by Wendy Wax
Original song by Jeff Arthur
9 minutes 33 seconds
"WMD- Words Weapons"
(1:23)taken at the opening reception of the
“Waging Peace” exhibiton Museum of Fine Arts
Fla State University, Tallahassee, FL
May 14 - July 8, 2018The sculpture was acquired for their permanent collection
WordsWeapons.comArthur’s text-based sculptures from the collection of Richard Brown Baker:
which are now at Yale University Art Gallery
Five of the works are at Yale University Art Gallery
A few examples of Arthur’s early metal “Shadow Thoughts”: “Shadow Thoughts”
A few examples of “Shadow Thoughts” on canvas “Black&White&Gray Matter”
Link to some earlier text-based metal sculptures : “WordzWorkx”
Link to a more extensive view of the diverse range of sculptures at Artwork Archive
Public Art installation of the 1982 found object assemblages at Kiley Gardens, Tampa : PublicWorkX.com
