Mark Bradford

San Francisco

Crafting abstract paintings from fragments of the urban environment – permanent-wave end papers, billboard paper, posters, newsprint – Mark Bradford has built a body of work that is richly layered in both material and meaning.

The MacArthur Award-winning artist’s seductive works reinvigorate abstraction with social awareness: often resembling aerial views, they subtly map the patterns of class, race, gender, and sexuality that structure American life, especially life in Bradford’s own South Central Los Angeles neighborhood.

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

February 18th – June 17th, 2012
151 Third Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
USA

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