Neither New nor Correct: New Work by Mark Bradford
Sept 14–Nov 25, 2007
Mark Bradford, Bread and Circuses, 2007. Mixed-media collage on canvas, 133 x 253 in. (337.8 x 642.6 cm). Collection of the artist; courtesy Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York
Mark Bradford is the recipient of the 2006 Bucksbaum Award. His work appeared in the 2006 Whitney Biennial, and in a one-person exhibition, Very Powerful Lords, at the Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria in 2003. Bradford's large scale pieces express ideas about the processes of urban excavation and archaeology. Tearing down the advertising posters that build up in layers on walls, windows, and light posts in South Central Los Angeles, he references the informal economic patterns of this community. From his found urban material, he creates "collages"--works made of paper but with the visual impact of painting. Water, which can hide by covering up, reveal by erosion, or act as a medium for mixing disparate elements, has become a powerful metaphor in his present series, which suggests the interpenetration between urban social exchange and physical structures.
Major support for Neither New nor Correct: New Work by Mark Bradford is provided by an endowment from the Martin Bucksbaum Family Foundation.
This exhibition is made possible, in part, by Altria Group, Inc.