I guess I have no motivation to make an abstract painting, even if they sometimes read as abstract. I think, with abstraction, it's easy to fall into a sort of pastiche.
Painting has this ability to send the viewer [backward], but it's also this physical object in the room with you. It's always knocking you back into … - Joe Bradley
Painting has this ability to send the viewer [backward], but it's also this physical object in the room with you. It's always knocking you back into …
- Joe Bradley
I always like being surprised and sort of caught off guard by other people's work. So it doesn't cause me any anxiety to explore different avenues. - Joe Bradley
I always like being surprised and sort of caught off guard by other people's work. So it doesn't cause me any anxiety to explore different avenues.
Paintings exist in the present tense, yet somehow, because of how it's structured, it can move backwards through time as well. - Joe Bradley
Paintings exist in the present tense, yet somehow, because of how it's structured, it can move backwards through time as well.
I think painting has that unique potential to project opposing viewpoints. - Joe Bradley
I think painting has that unique potential to project opposing viewpoints.
A good painting has to do about 12 things at once. - Joe Bradley
A good painting has to do about 12 things at once.
Maybe I don't have the same sense of humor. Maybe people aren't comfortable gauging a painting that way. They think that if it's a painting then it m… - Joe Bradley
Maybe I don't have the same sense of humor. Maybe people aren't comfortable gauging a painting that way. They think that if it's a painting then it m…
It's a funny semantic turn - when someone paints a landscape, no one says they "borrowed" it, only that they painted it. - Joe Bradley
It's a funny semantic turn - when someone paints a landscape, no one says they "borrowed" it, only that they painted it.
The thing is that the money issue looms so large in art now. And it has absolutely nothing to do with art. If you're painting goes for ten grand or a… - Joe Bradley
The thing is that the money issue looms so large in art now. And it has absolutely nothing to do with art. If you're painting goes for ten grand or a…
I can only think of a handful of artists that can make a funny painting or a funny sculpture without it feeling coined in someway. - Joe Bradley
I can only think of a handful of artists that can make a funny painting or a funny sculpture without it feeling coined in someway.
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