The simple things are the great things in art. The subtlety and interplay of everything involved in the piece, from the act of creating itself, to the subject, to the venue in which it is viewed all lend to the total work. Scott Wade of Texas gets it, it being that central American ideal of art that well, just isn't that European classic/pretty or metropolitan avant garde, it's folksy maybe but a little pop too, in fact the lack of ability to describe it lends further point to it's purity as an oddball and unique American idea.
Wade's work may make wonderful morning news fodder but there is something bigger there when Wade speaks to his ambition in a recent MAKE article,
"I have this grandiose idea of parking cars all the way up the ramp of the Guggenheim Museum and painting in dirt reproductions of the pieces that are on the wall next to it."
grandiose yes, but ambition beyond expectation is an all to American mantra.
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