Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery is extremely pleased to announce that Lawrence Bridges has been named as the Gallery’s new featured artist and he will now be promoted by the gallery for the next 14 days in the gallery’s Artist Showcase.
Lawrence is an internationally acclaimed, award-winning photographer and poet based in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was selected as 1 of the top twelve finalists in the gallery’s 31st Solo Art Exhibition Series. The placement in this competition qualified his artwork to be showcased in this feature.
His Artist Showcase feature will be promoted to hundreds of major news outlets. In addition, the gallery will also be featuring and promoting his artwork in the gallery’s various social media networks for further exposure.
Below are Lawrence’s Artist Biography, Artist Statement and 5 of his artworks submitted to this competition.
Lawrence Bridges is best known for work in the film and literary world. His photographs have recently appeared in the Las Laguna Art Gallery 2023, Humana Obscura, Wanderlust a Travel Journal, the London Photo Festival, Light Space & Time Art Gallery, and the ENSO Art Gallery in Malibu, California.
His poetry has appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, The Tampa Review, and Ambit. He has published three volumes of poetry: Horses on Drums (Red Hen Press, 2006), Flip Days (Red Hen Press, 2009) and Brownwood (Tupelo Press, 2016).
Lawrence created a series of literary documentaries for the National Endowment for the Arts “Big Read” initiative, which includes profiles of Ray Bradbury, Amy Tan, Tobias Wolff, and Cynthia Ozick.
I am a forager—of poetic observations, let’s say. Forager of change. I seek Ovid, that greatest unmasker of form and spirit. My search is mischievous, restless, and constant.
In my work, I deliberately employ shock, but only as a way to reveal truth in human behavior. Photographic truth is poetic, and poetic truth is justice. There is no “fake truth” at the end of a pencil or lens. We suffer, therefore we love, and therefore we protect one another. This is the burden of self-consciousness.
My photographs attempt to unmask thoughts and images as they shift before me at high speed. I despair only when I cannot capture them before they disappear—but even that failure often leads to another photograph, one as strange and rich as the mind’s movement through time.
To learn more about Lawrence and to see more of his photographs, please visit his website.
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