I am of two minds about the early work of Mark Bradford. The elegance of his typically large-scale paintings is undeniable. The surfaces are beautiful — sometimes extraordinarily beautiful — yet at ...
Mark Bradford folded his lanky frame into a Modernist chair in the mezzanine space at the downtown Los Angeles outpost of the global mega gallery Hauser & Wirth. After more than a year of ...
Mark Bradford can’t stand still. His energy – itchy, electric, fidgety – easily fills a gigantic, concrete-lined studio in south LA. His tall, beanpole stature carries with it a sense of urgency that ...
After a celebrated career of making oblique work that refused autobiography, he is making his most personal work yet. Mark Bradford working on “Death Drop, 2023” at his Los Angeles studio in ...
From the beauty shop to ballroom culture, the Los Angeles artist takes over Hauser & Wirth in Manhattan with a contemplative mood. By John Vincler Mark Bradford found his way to becoming an artist ...
Long before homelessness became the issue it is today, the critic Clement Greenberg coined the term “homeless representation” to put down paintings that were not abstract enough. The champion of ...
MARK BRADFORD’S studio is housed in a 50,000-square-foot former metal-manufacturing facility on an industrial street in South Los Angeles. It neighbors a recycling plant, a big-rig trucking school and ...
Mark Bradford is arguably the hottest contemporary artist in the country right now and today the Rose Art Museum announced he will represent the United States at the Venice Biennale, the expansive and ...
The University of Chicago’s Smart Museum of Art has just unveiled plans for an ambitious multi-site show with work by MacArthur fellow artists including Ndijeka Akunyili Crosby, Mark Bradford, Rick ...