Joe Bradley
Personally, as a collector I enjoy looking at really simple things hanging on my wall that don’t distract and don’t have any immediate meaning or concept. This way, since I see it everyday, I can either totally ignore it (look past it) or stare at it intently.
I also like small. Now, small can be a framed scrap of paper, but when that hangs on your wall alone, it becomes really BIG, because it’s attracting all the attention away from the rest of the blank wall. But if you hang a huge canvas with only two lines on it (see image above) you basically get to keep your blank wall and still have something interesting to look at.
Big pieces on big walls are much easier to ignore. It’s like furniture: we generally look past our couches, or tables in a restaurant, to see the room itself.
I’ve never really been into the “draw like a kid” style but when I saw Joe Bradley’s “Schmagoo Paintings” the concept really clicked for me: do it on huge canvases so I can appreciate the abstractedness of the linework. The minimalism of a “stickman” turns into an abstract concept of three long pencil strokes and then a blast of scribble. Cool.
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