马克-布拉德福德 混合媒体艺术家

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Mark Bradford
Mixed Media Artist | Class of 2009
Incorporating ephemera from urban environments into richly textured, abstract compositions that evoke a multitude of metaphors.


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Title
Mixed Media Artist
Location
Los Angeles, California
Age
47 at time of award
Area of Focus
2-D Visual Art
Website
Hauser & Wirth Gallery: Mark Bradford
Published January 26, 2009
ABOUT MARK'S WORK
Mark Bradford is an artist who incorporates ephemera from urban environments into mixed-media works on canvas that are rich in texture and visual complexity. Though he has experimented throughout his career with many different artistic media, including public art, installations, and video, his signature and best-known work takes the form of massively scaled, abstract collages that he assembles out of signage and other materials collected, most frequently, from his own neighborhood in South Central Los Angeles. Bradford’s aesthetic language makes use of such elements as bits of billboards, handmade advertisements, foil, string, and permanent wave end-papers from beauty shops, which he arranges, layers, singes, sands, and bleaches into brilliantly hued, painterly structures that appear to sprawl and swirl. Loosely gridded and often cartographic in character, these pieces both reflect his interest in the formal traditions of modernist abstraction and reference the communities from which he culls his materials. Glimpses of partially legible text and imagery within his map-like works evoke a multitude of metaphors and suggest intricate systems in a constant state of flux. In the multilayered tableau Los Moscos (2004), bursts of bright yellows and reds radiate through a predominance of darker fragments, calling to mind clusters of pulsing city lights viewed from a collapsed and distanced perspective. With this piece and numerous others in his increasingly ambitious body of work, Bradford is developing a visually arresting means of representing in two dimensions the dynamism and depth of the sites and streets he excavates.

BIOGRAPHY
Mark Bradford received a B.F.A. (1995) and an M.F.A. (1997) from the California Institute of the Arts. His work has appeared in numerous solo and group exhibitions at such venues as the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Museum of Modern Art, among many others.



马克-布拉德福德
混合媒体艺术家|2009级
将城市环境中的偶发物融入丰富的纹理、抽象的构图中，唤起众多的隐喻。


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标题
混合媒体艺术家
地点
洛杉矶，加利福尼亚
年龄
获奖时47岁
重点领域
二维视觉艺术
网站
Hauser & Wirth画廊。马克-布拉德福德
2009年1月26日出版
关于马克的作品
马克-布拉德福德是一位艺术家，他将城市环境中的偶发事件融入到混合媒体的画布作品中，具有丰富的纹理和视觉复杂性。虽然他在整个职业生涯中尝试了许多不同的艺术媒介，包括公共艺术、装置和视频，但他的标志性和最知名的作品是大规模的抽象拼贴画，他用标牌和其他材料组装而成，最常见的是在他自己位于洛杉矶中南部的社区。布拉德福德的美学语言利用了广告牌、手工广告、铝箔、绳子和美容店的永久波浪纸等元素，他将这些元素排列、分层、歌唱、沙子和漂白，形成色彩绚丽的、绘画般的结构，似乎在蔓延和漩涡。松散的网格和经常的地图特征，这些作品既反映了他对现代主义抽象的形式传统的兴趣，也参考了他所收集材料的社区。在他类似地图的作品中，部分可读的文字和图像的瞥见唤起了众多的隐喻，并暗示了处于不断变化状态的复杂的系统。在多层次的《Los Moscos》（2004年）中，明亮的黄色和红色在黑暗的碎片中放射出来，让人联想到从坍塌的、遥远的角度看去的一簇簇跳动的城市灯光。通过这件作品以及他越来越有野心的作品中的许多其他作品，布拉德福德正在开发一种视觉上引人注目的手段，以二维方式表现他所挖掘的场地和街道的活力和深度。

个人简历
马克-布拉德福德在加利福尼亚艺术学院获得了艺术学士学位（1995年）和艺术硕士学位（1997年）。他的作品曾在惠特尼美国艺术博物馆、哈莱姆工作室博物馆、洛杉矶县艺术博物馆和现代艺术博物馆等场所的众多个展和联展中出现。