About the artist

Mark Bradford was born in 1961 in Los Angeles, where he still lives and works. He is best known for his large-scale abstract paintings created out of paper. Characterized by its layered formal, material and conceptual complexity, Bradford’s work explores social and political structures that objectify marginalized communities and the bodies of vulnerable populations. Just as essential to Bradford’s work is a social engagement practice through which he reframes objectifying societal structures by bringing contemporary art and ideas into communities with limited access to museums and cultural institutions.

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