{"product_id":"joe-bradley-vom-abend-animal-family-hardcover","title":"Joe Bradley: Vom Abend\/Animal Family - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJoe Bradley\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eCaoimhín Mac Giolla Léith\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoe Bradley's colorful and dynamic paintings invite viewers to consider the interplay between the deliberate and spontaneous, and the abstract and figurative\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAmerican artist Joe Bradley is widely recognized for his expansive visual practice that encompasses painting as well as sculpture and drawing. Over the past twenty years, Bradley has continually reinvented his approach to art, creating a distinctive body of work that has ranged from modular, minimalist-style paintings and sculptures to rough-hewn, heavily worked surfaces featuring pictographic and abstract elements, to refined and layered compositions that, as critic Roberta Smith notes, \"balance gracefully between representation and abstraction.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eJoe Bradley: Vom Abend\/Animal Family\u003c\/i\u003e presents work from two celebrated exhibitions at David Zwirner, in New York and London in 2024 and 2025. Bradley worked on the paintings in these two groups simultaneously, and their mutual influence is perceptible in the presence of shared or repeated colors, forms, and shapes. These paintings suggest a new turn in the artist's practice, as figurative elements emerge as central compositional structures. Accompanying works on paper further illuminate Bradley's multidimensional practice. An essay by art critic Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith situates this series within the artist's larger oeuvre, discussing Bradley's evolution in art-historical and formal terms. In a conversation, Bradley and fellow artist Amy Sillman explore the role of humor in art--and the influence of comics in Bradley's work--and discuss their relationships to art history, the embodied act of painting, and the catalysts that spur their production.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoe Bradley was born in Kittery, Maine, and received his BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1999. He presently lives and works in New York. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCaoimhín Mac Giolla Léith is an art critic and associate professor at University College Dublin. He is a contributor to \u003ci\u003eAfterall\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eArtforum\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eArt Monthly\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eFrieze\u003c\/i\u003e, and to many exhibition catalogues for galleries and museums, including Modern Art Oxford, Tate, Kunsthalle Zürich, and the Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt. His publications, on Irish literature as well as contemporary art, include essays on Nairy Baghramian, Cecily Brown, Marlene Dumas, Steve McQueen, and James Welling. He is the author of the monograph \u003ci\u003eEllen Gallagher \u003c\/i\u003e(2021). He has been a juror for the Turner Prize and Hamlyn Awards.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 144\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 12.5 x 8.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 22, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52203974590759,"sku":"9781644231784","price":80.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1002\/2079\/7223\/files\/pyzXj4utx_9781644231784.webp?v=1790801844","url":"https:\/\/theluminousbookshop.com\/products\/joe-bradley-vom-abend-animal-family-hardcover","provider":"The Luminous Book Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}