Mouth and Foot (Cock and Balls)
A raw and irreverent composition, Joe Bradley's *Mouth and Foot (Cock and Balls)* deploys oil, oilstick, and mixed media on canvas with a gestural looseness that recalls both outsider art and primitive mark-making. Bradley's reductive figuration strips the human form to its most blunt and elemental symbols, balancing crude humor with a genuine painterly intelligence. The work reflects his ongoing interrogation of art historical conventions, pushing against the boundaries of taste and abstraction with disarming directness.
- Medium
- oil, oilstick and mixed media on canvas
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Phillips
🔨 Auction Lot
20th Century & Contemporary Art Evening Sale
May 8, 2016
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“I like to see what someone who doesn’t draw does draw when they draw. It’s always the same stuff...I’ve been paying attention to graffiti too, tags and that sort of thing. It’s funny. It’s just visual background noise until you start to engage with it, and then you just realize that it’s everywhere.” - Joe Bradley
2010
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