Joe Bradley's *Pig* is a raw and reductive work executed in oil and soot on canvas, reflecting the artist's signature embrace of primitive mark-making and gestural simplicity. The use of soot lends the piece a gritty, almost prehistoric quality, evoking cave paintings or outsider art while remaining firmly rooted in contemporary painting discourse. Bradley distills his subject to its most elemental form, balancing humor and formal rigor in a way that challenges the boundaries of figuration and abstraction.