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A good painting has to do about 12 things at once.
Joe Bradley / Artist
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I don't really get excited about good things happening to me.
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Excited
Good Things
Happenings
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I think, with abstraction, it's easy to fall into a sort of pastiche.
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Easy
Fall
Thinking
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I've always liked the fact that galleries are free to visit in New York.
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New York
Facts
Gallery
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I think painting has that unique potential to project opposing viewpoints.
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Thinking
Unique
Viewpoints
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I love looking at sculpture, but there's some sort of spell that's broken with it.
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Broken
Sculpture
Spells
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Money issue looms so large in art now. And it has absolutely nothing to do with art.
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Art
Absolutely Nothing
Issues
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I think you do kind of slip into a trance when you look at a painting. At least I do.
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Looks
Painting
Thinking
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There's art that I think is pretty silly, but it doesn't get under my skin like it used to.
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Art
Silly
Thinking
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People weep at music all the time, because music gives form to some abstract level of integration.
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Giving
Levels
People
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There are different kinds of concentration required to make a painting, different kinds of being present.
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Different
Kind
Painting
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Technology's always changing. There was a time where oil painting was a new technology. That changed painting.
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Technology
Oil
Painting
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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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Landscape
Paint
Turns
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Paintings exist in the present tense, yet somehow, because of how it's structured, it can move backwards through time as well.
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Moving
Painting
Rough Times
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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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Artist
Feelings
Thinking
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I'm not a planner. I should be more articulate about what the imagery means, but I don't have a good reason for it; it's just there.
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Mean
Reason
Should
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I think that time moves slower in painting. And maybe that accounts for a lot of the anxiety around painting in the last 40 or 50 years.
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Moving
Thinking
Years
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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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Culture
Force
Not Interested
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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.
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Anxiety
Different
People
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There's something retro about the pop culture references in the paintings, so I'd imagine it's not as much a pop culture reference as a pop art reference.
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Art
Culture
Painting
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I'm also interested in something that can happen later in life. In midstream, you can suddenly take what looks like a detour; I'm sure I've taken many detours.
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Later In Life
Looks
Taken
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I remember looking at books when I was in high school, but I don't think I really stood in front of a genuine painting or sculpture until I was out of high school.
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Book
School
Thinking
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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.
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Fall
Motivation
Thinking
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You have the 20th century wrapping up and everything is moving at this breakneck speed? And then, painting is still walking. It's just a very human activity that takes time.
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Moving
Painting
Wrapping Up
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I suppose some people find their voice later than others, but it's interesting to look back at really early work to see that there's some kernel or a Rosetta Stone, in a way.
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Interesting
People
Voice
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The era of television in which I grew up was much simpler than now. Its conventions were quite transparent and fun to think about. Who could ever remember the plot of those shows?
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Fun
Plot
Thinking
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I think that painting relates very neatly to inner travel and the exploration of inner worlds. With painting, I always get the impression that you're sort of entering into a shared space.
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Space
Entering
Thinking
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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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Moments
Painting
Rooms
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The internet might be a convenience, but it hasn't yet, for me, been a fundamental reordering. These things are supposed to be time-savers, so you have more time standing at your easel if you so choose.
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Fundamentals
Internet
Might
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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 must be serious. I think Picasso can be hilarious, to name one example.
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Names
People
Thinking
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When there's a painting in the room, my eye goes right to it. It's like if you go into a bar and there's a television on, you can't take your eyes off the television. Paintings have that effect on me. It's where my eye settles.
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Bars
Eye
Television
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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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Levels
Taken
Thinking
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I give myself different roles. I think in different ways on different days. Sometimes I think of it as cooking - different flavors and different ingredients. Sometimes I think of it like orchestrating a piece of music with all the different instruments.
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Cooking
Giving
Thinking
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I think what's happened in art criticism, or art thinking, in last 30 or 40 years is a confusion between the "what" - the subject - and the "how." Most attention goes to the "what," but it's the "how" that's the important part - how something is brought into being.
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Art
Thinking
Years
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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 hundred grand, it doesn't make painting any easier. And it doesn't make the painting any better if it goes for a hundred grand.
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Art
Issues
Painting
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I've had phases where the compass point seems lost. It can happen for various reasons, among them, that you're trying to do something outside your skill set; your skills have to catch up with the things you see in your head. But it's important to make all of those paintings, even the failed ones.
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Important
Skills
Trying
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When I was younger I was very opinionated about art. And then, I realized that I kind of recognized this pattern where the things that I was vehemently of pissed off about, I would end up loving them two years later. So I just tried to mellow out. Like there's art that I think is pretty silly, but it doesn't get under my skin like it used to.
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Art
Silly
Thinking
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Painting can also be too earnest at times and that's a drag. You don't want to go in that direction either. It should be holistic. It should represent the whole of your personality, I guess, so if somebody is a sincere painter or an ironic painter, then they're just bullshitting the audience and presenting only an idealized version of themselves.
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Ironic
Personality
Want
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