
"That's what I liked about the figures...they seemed to evoke the glory of Egypt while remaining completely ridiculous" -Joe Bradley
2010
Two large-scale panels form a diptych of bold, primitive figures rendered in flat, graphic silkscreen ink, their simplified forms hovering between ancient hieroglyphic imagery and cartoonish abstraction. Bradley channels the monumental weight of Egyptian iconography while maintaining a deliberately crude, almost comedic awkwardness in the figures' postures and outlines. The tension between the sacred and the absurd is at the heart of this work, where ceremonial grandeur collapses into irreverent humor.
- Medium
- silkscreen on canvas, diptych
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Phillips
🔨 Auction Lot
20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale
November 17, 2016
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