Mark Bradford

Mark Bradford

Black Venus 2005 400X200Cm

Bradford's work is based on his everyday life and his past memories; he uses everyday materials and rubbish that he finds everyday to use in his work, there isn't actually a lot of paint used in the process.  Most of the work is about the neighbourhood that he grew up in and lives today in the Latino area of LA, he still lives in his childhood's house and has changed his mum's hair dressers into a studio. He is a very personal artist who is trying to get people to understand his life; this is the point of his works.

Bradford particularly likes to use billboard poster paper in his work and is known as the paper chaser, but also what the billboard means the quality of the paper is important to him as his mum had her own small business this became personal to him, the more simple and lower quality of the billboard the smaller the business and the closer to his heart it is. This is one of the obvious reasons his work is so abstract because of the materials used. The work is described as a patchwork, and the materials that he uses are the aftermath of everyday life and they each bring that little bit of history to the work. Bradford is trying to show the story of his life through the work and maybe the pain, the colours seem to be predominantly dark, those you would associate with pain.

http://whitecube.com/artists/mark_bradford/

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