I met Mark Bradford in my first semester in undergrad at UCLA in 2001. Malerie Marder, my photography teacher brought our class to his studio to see his work. Not only did the man have an amazing presence, towering above us with a booming voice, but his work was incredible. He left such an impression on me for many years I kept the flier from his show and a sheet of the perm paper that he gets from African American barber salons to make his collages. I have a feeling that these now-collectibles have probably disappeared by now, but I just found him in a google search for another artist who's name I forgot. The keywords were "famous collage artist, los angeles".
The piece below is in the Saatchi Gallery collection. And I caught a glimpse of this piece in the google images preview and I knew it was his work.
I saw him at the ICA in Boston back in 2008. I was really excited to see his work in the top floor gallery alongside the Anish Kapoor show. Now I realize what I really love about it: it's relevance and aesthetic resemblance to the urban grid, urbanism and architecture. It is a landscape of its own, a montage of signs and squares in a huge blended field that is the city. The city as an infrastructural palimpsest.
Below are shots of Mark Bradford's work I took at the ICA in Boston from my iPhone camera back in 2008:
The following is another image from the Saatchi collection:
Mark Bradford had an impact on me, when I was an 18 year old kid in art school. His work will forever be imprinted in my mind.
The piece below is in the Saatchi Gallery collection. And I caught a glimpse of this piece in the google images preview and I knew it was his work.
Kryptonite
Mixed Media Collage on Paper
2006
I saw him at the ICA in Boston back in 2008. I was really excited to see his work in the top floor gallery alongside the Anish Kapoor show. Now I realize what I really love about it: it's relevance and aesthetic resemblance to the urban grid, urbanism and architecture. It is a landscape of its own, a montage of signs and squares in a huge blended field that is the city. The city as an infrastructural palimpsest.
Below are shots of Mark Bradford's work I took at the ICA in Boston from my iPhone camera back in 2008:
The following is another image from the Saatchi collection:
The Devil is Beating His Wife
Billboard paper, photomechanical reproductions, permanent-wave end papers, stencils, and additional mixed media on plywood
2003
Mark Bradford had an impact on me, when I was an 18 year old kid in art school. His work will forever be imprinted in my mind.
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