Abstract Artist Mark Bradford

The breakthrough works he made between about 2004 and 2008 which helped him on his path to becoming one of the most acclaimed artists alive he has featured. Bradfords materials were often seen on the street. Working in both paint and collage bradford incorporates elements from daily life into his canvases such as remnants of found posters and billboards and hairdressers permanent endpapers.

Bradford is known for grid like abstract paintings combining collage with paint.

Abstract artist mark bradford. Mark bradford was born in los angeles california in 1961. He is also a performance artist. Working in a wide ranging conceptual practice he best known for his multimedia abstract paintings whose laborious surfaces hint at the artists excavation of emotional and political terrain. John vincler is a writer visual artist and has worked for a decade as a rare book librarian.

Mark bradford is widely considered one of the most important and influential artists in america today. Mark bradfords diptych duck walk 2016 is currently on view as part of the met at fifth avenues exhibition epic abstraction. Bradford transforms materials scavenged from the street into wall size collages and installations that respond to the impromptu networksunderground economies migrant communities or popular appropriation of abandoned public spacethat emerge within a city. Bradford 58 grew up in los angeles.

His abstract canvases which often deal with complex social and political issues hang in. He received a bfa 1995 and mfa 1997 from the california institute of the arts in valencia. He is well known for his modern abstract works that combine paint and collage. 554 posts see instagram photos and videos from markbradfordartist hashtag.

The artists story growing up in los angeles helping out in his mothers hair salon in south central the textual debris of the street the maps of his neighborhoods his time in new orleans. In white painting bradford uses paper exclusively to replicate the effect of paint. Mark bradford is an african american artist that is currently working and living in los angeles california. For this bradford applied dense layers of vibrantly coloured paper paint and rope.

In 2015 mark bradford created pull painting 1 a site specific wall drawing inspired by sol lewitt along a 60 foot wall in the wadsworth atheneum as part of the museums matrix 172 program. Mark bradford is a contemporary african american artist. Mark bradfords abstractions unite high art and popular culture as unorthodox tableaux of unequivocal beauty.