Joe Bradley
"Untitled"
Signed edition of 100 on newsprint
28" x 21.5"
$200
If there's one thing for which Joe Bradley seems to be known, it's making work that evades any singular categorization. Over the course of his multifarious artistic career, Bradley has garnered much attention over his modular canvases arranged biomorphically and "Schmagoo" paintings that reference primal visual symbols. Despite his moving through a number of methods and constantly changing styles, Bradley compares his oeuvre to skin, and despite it looking completely different, says "the work all shares the same sort of DNA." Once referred to as the "eternal line-maker", Bradley often shows his sense of humor and playfulness, a tendency that makes even the most spare works especially accessible. His recent series have ranged from large black silhouettes of dancing figures on pure white backgrounds to messy, impastoed abstractions full of colliding shapes and colors. Untitled was shown alongside forty other drawings in Bradley's Lotus Beaters show at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise last summer. We think that the smudges and negative space present here embody the energy and charge of his hand.
More