1.0L.A. Louver - Journalhttps://www.lalouver.com/journalL.A. Louverhttps://www.lalouver.com/journal/author/50percentopacityrich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="eaue7K53xE"><a href="https://www.lalouver.com/journal/in-focus-william-brice">In Focus: William Brice</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://www.lalouver.com/journal/in-focus-william-brice/embed#?secret=eaue7K53xE" width="600" height="338" title="“In Focus: William Brice” — L.A. Louver - Journal" data-secret="eaue7K53xE" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script type="text/javascript"> /* <![CDATA[ */ /*! This file is auto-generated */ !function(d,l){"use strict";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&"undefined"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),c=new RegExp("^https?:$","i"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display="none";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute("style"),"height"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):"link"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute("src")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener("message",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll("iframe.wp-embedded-content"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute("data-secret"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+="#?secret="+t,e.setAttribute("data-secret",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:"ready",secret:t},"*")},!1)))}(window,document); //# sourceURL=https://www.lalouver.com/journal/wp-includes/js/wp-embed.min.js /* ]]> */ </script> https://www.lalouver.com/journal/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/william-brice.jpg1375982William Brice’s cryptic dreamscape Untitled (1969)—on view now in L.A. Louver Celebrates 50 Years—represents a significant inflection point for the artist, produced just as he was settling into his iconic mature style. Presaging Brice’s transformative first visit to Greece in 1970, the work combines the untouched rock formations, coastal iconography, and dimensional space of his early works with the classical Greek architectural fragments and stylized human form for which he is known. Here, in the foreground, a fleshy, abstracted partial figure stands by a shoreline landscape scattered with offshore boulders, columns, sculptural remnants, stone furniture and a decorated stele. For Brice, these elements—human bodies, natural stone structures, ancient carved fragments—served as connection points between classical civilization, individual perceptual life, broader universal humanity, and the even grander scope of geological time. In Untitled, Brice articulates these disparate pieces in a representational mode that reveals the origins of his later more abstract, pictographic works.