Mark Bradford

 

If you can find it on the street, you can be sure it will be in one of Mark Bradford's pieces.

Through collage, Bradford uses materials such as advertisements, twine, billboard paper, end papers, maps, and music fragments to bring his works together.

 

 

The materials Bradford employs come from the area he lives in and from his personal life as well. It is because of this specific choice of media that Bradford is able to inject his own life and the life of the city in his pieces.

Bradford's works have a distinct urban feel to them, due to that many of his works are made up of things found in the city and are sometimes reflective of a map of Los Angeles. His pieces also exude a kind of personal-ness and vulnerability. Since Bradford uses objects related to his life, he leaves not only his work but his life open to judgment.

Bradford's pieces are a great example that the media used can transcend its function as something to make art with and become the work of art itself.

 

 

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"Mark Bradford." Art21. PBS, n.d. Web. 8 Feb. 2014.