Mark Bradford

The Artist
The New Museum, New York, Benefit Auction, May 2004
Acquired by the present owner from the above sale

This work is in very good condition overall. There are areas of faint creasing scattered throughout the paper elements, which is inherent to the medium and the working method of the artist. There is evidence of stray media along the edges of the canvas, which is most likely a result of the artist's studio environment, medium and the artist's working method. Under ultraviolet light inspection there is no evidence of restoration. Unframed.
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"Once I looked out of the hair salon and became interested in the environment around me—and the language of that environment—everything that I had been trying to talk about was already there, speaking and having dialogues. I wanted to engage that material more directly. The conversations I was interested in were about community, fluidity, about a merchant dynamic, and the details that point to a genus of change. The species I use sometimes are racial, sexual, cultural, stereotypical. But the genus I’m always interested in is change." Mark Bradford