Episode #001: Mark Bradford at his home in Los Angeles, with excerpts from his childhood Super 8 home movies.
Mark Bradford transforms materials scavenged from the street into wall-sized collages and installations that respond to the impromptu networks—underground economies, migrant communities, or popular appropriation of abandoned public space—that emerge within a city. Bradford's work is as informed by his personal background as a third-generation merchant in Los Angeles as it is by the tradition of abstract painting developed worldwide in the twentieth century.
LEARN: Mark Bradford is featured in the Season 4 (2007) episode Paradox of the Art:21—Art in the Twenty-First Century television series on PBS.
DISCUSS: What do you think about this video? Leave a comment!
Learn more about Mark Bradford: http://www.art21.org/artists/mark-bradford
VIDEO | Producer: Susan Sollins & Nick Ravich. Camera: Bob Elfstrom. Sound: Ray Day. Editor: Monte Matteotti. Artwork courtesy: Mark Bradford. © 2008 Art21, Inc.
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its called " TIGER by LUCKYTHIEF "
laddauppladdaupp 2 years ago
The way he told that story warmed my heart, and got me into his artwork...he just won a fan...
BohoHobo 2 years ago
thank you!!!!
BigZe 2 years ago
Very interesting take on art, a child's imagination, there's nothing like a child's innocents and imagination that makes art so wonderful and so inspiring, for example Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds was written when John saw his son draw a picture of a girl with diamonds.
detroit83stang 3 years ago
Great inside look at Mark's process. I would love to work with you on something in the future.
chicagoarts 3 years ago