{"id":17101,"date":"2013-06-19T07:09:02","date_gmt":"2013-06-19T12:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/?p=17101"},"modified":"2013-06-21T08:50:40","modified_gmt":"2013-06-21T13:50:40","slug":"joe-bradley-muggle-mudpies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2013\/06\/19\/joe-bradley-muggle-mudpies\/","title":{"rendered":"~JOE BRADLEY . . MUGGLE MUDPIES"},"content":{"rendered":"

DEDICATED TO: JAMES GANDOLFINI – JERSEY BOY.
\nwho died today, Wed June 19 age 51, in Rome – a huge heartbeat, lost.<\/p>\n

BIG QUESTION: so . . . is a Lotus ‘beater’, as opposed to a Lotus EATER .. just . . a muggle ?
\nas in, you know . . Harry Potter.
\nthat is: a common no-inspiration, no magic . . . ordinary lowlife human-type sub-species.
\nis lotus ‘beating’, something you want to achieve, or eschew ?<\/p>\n

JOE BRADLEY – ‘LOTUS BEATERS’
\nthe show opened May 16, 2013
\nMAY 17 – JUNE 29, 2013
\nGavin Brown’s enterprise – 620 GREENWICH ST – WEST VILLAGE, NYC<\/p>\n

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\nthe ‘first’ gallery was home to just one series of 4 big paintings, hung in a tight row, and titled, from right to left:
\n“Muggles #5, Muggles #4, Muggles #3, and Muggles #2.<\/p>\n

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\nthey didn’t seem to make sense . . individually. at least on first impression.
\nthey didn’t seem to make sense, at all. actually.<\/p>\n

I’ll be the first to admit. coming after my huge rush . . on the hyper real, totally graphic, so graphic it’s abstract .. work of JACK GOLDSTEIN, it was hard to make the . . leap.
\nhard to transition.<\/p>\n

in fact, coming off of Joe Bradley’s own early work, which seemed ‘abstract’ – but always referenced the human form, or the human ‘feature’, as in grin, or Superman logo, scroll down to the intro post below – it was hard to catch the drift, though the work did have roots in Joe’s early no-name, no-form ugly brown rug wall piece ?<\/p>\n

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\nmaybe that was<\/strong> the deal.
\nthese were MUGGLE paintings. these were portraits of a mind-set. so yep, they still referenced: HUMAN.<\/p>\n

these were anti-art trophy paintings. these were anti-Jeff Koons paintings.<\/p>\n

these were . . heartbeats.<\/p>\n

these were pumping mysterious heartbeats . . not euphoric exactly, but background bass beats. you know, you have your Jean Michel on one wall, your Andy Warhol centered on the next, your Jack Goldstein, sharp as a knife on the third, and a couple of Bradley heartbeats, pumping away, below the surface – on the last. you sit in the room, and your pulse rises. <\/p>\n

Lotus Beater, ha.
\nstill Lotus – eater !! if you ask . . me.<\/p>\n

PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DEDICATED TO: JAMES GANDOLFINI – JERSEY BOY. who died today, Wed June 19 age 51, in Rome – a huge heartbeat, lost. BIG QUESTION: so . . . is a Lotus ‘beater’, as opposed to a Lotus EATER .. just . . a muggle ? as in, you know . . Harry Potter. that is: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17101"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17101"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17103,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17101\/revisions\/17103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}