Bradford Johnson

I devised a technique of drawing with pencil through a literal screen on paper in order accentuate a hazy sense of distance to the subject. It was an attempt to achieve a similar feel of mark-making on graphite as in some of the painting images I did in the early 2000's. The result was an image that seemed to be composed of small, all most asian-looking characters.

Billy Sunday was an early pioneer of mass Evangelical rallies. These drawings are based on photographs of his dramatic poses and supplied with the original captions I found in an old biography on the Preacher.

I set myself the task (stemming as much from an environmental impulse, as an aesthetic one) to make art solely from newprint. These stock market pages from the Wall Street Journal, with the fish and other trophies, were created by rubbing darker portions of the same newspaper over stencils cut in the shape of the creatures.

These drawings are based on the photographs of Nil's Strindberg and follow the painted work done surrounding the ill fated "Andree Polar Exhibition" of 1897.