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“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.”

Quote by Joe Bradley

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Joe Bradley, born in 1975, is an accomplished artist from the United States. His works are renowned for their unique style and profound insights into contemporary social issues. more

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“A picture can be funny and also weep inducing. One cries for many reasons. The state of weeping, for me, is induced by recognition of a rarified level of integration - thinking about what must it have taken to reach that integration.”

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“I think painting has that unique potential to project opposing viewpoints.”

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“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 the present moment, which I find very pleasurable.”

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“I'm not interested in popular culture, particularly. I'm not against it, I'm not avoiding it, but I'm not interested in it as a force in life.”

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“It's a funny semantic turn - when someone paints a landscape, no one says they "borrowed" it, only that they painted it.”

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