Mark Bradford
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Born in 1961 in Los Angeles, California, Mark Bradford is an abstract painter and performance artist. A graduate of the California Institute of the Arts, the LA-based artist is particularly known for his collaged paintings, which have been exhibited in many cities across the globe. He represented the United States in the Venice Biennale in 2016.
Bradford produces large-scaled abstract painting works from masses of excavated and layered paper. His materials vary, ranging from graffiti-based stencils and flyers to billboards. His painting style adopts both the elements of architecture & urban streets and canons of modernist composition. Bradford was a 2009 MacArthur Fellow.
Collage is the art of using discarded or waste paper to create artworks, often using recycling waste paper. One just cannot believe what impressive pieces can be made using these. Two of these masterpieces are Helter Skelter I and Helter Skelter II that have challenged the way waste paper can be used. Mark Bradford, the […]
Mark Bradford’s chaotic Helter Skelter collages Read More
Asked to describe himself, Mark Bradford uses the words demolisher and builder in the same breadth and it is easy to see why. Using posters created for promoting merchant goods and services, flyers and general advertising materials, he takes pride in transforming anything he can lay his hands on into large-scale art pieces. His specialty
Mark Bradford’s giant sculpture Mithra resembles Noah’s ark Read More
