Title: Mark Bradford Exhibition Poster, 2010
Artist: Mark Bradford
Year: 2010
Medium Type: Poster | paper
Frame: Unframed

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Mark Bradford
American, b. 1961

Mark Bradford makes monumental abstract paintings from layered and excavated masses of paper. His materials range from billboards and flyers to graffitied stencils, and his style embraces both tenets of modernist composition and elements of urban streets and architecture. Kryptonite (2006), for example, features a dense grid of collaged materials that evokes both an aerial view of a city and iconic artworks such as Piet Mondrian’s Broadway Boogie Woogie (1942–43). Bradford’s ambitious, visually arresting works often conjure both maps and the body itself. Some paintings feature text. The artist has also made public artworks, installations, sculptures, and videos that often explore the relationship between high art and popular culture, and among materiality, surface, and image. Bradford is a recipient of the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Bucksbaum Award and was a 2009 MacArthur Fellow. In 2018, his painting Helter Skelter I sold for nearly $12 million—then the highest price ever paid at auction for a work by a living African American artist.

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