Mark Bradford
Mark Bradford
Mark Bradfordis an American artist living and working in Los Angeles...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionArtist
CountryUnited States of America
art ask
I look at art as a container. You can't get inside it, so you have to ask all of these questions.
art important stores
The most important imperative to be questioned is the one that tells you to go the the art supply store to be a painter.
art thinking practice
My art practice is very detail-, labor- intensive and I think that that's a way of slowing myself down so that I can hear myself think. That quieter voice has sometimes the more interesting idea, if I can get to it.
art artist stuff
I always made stuff but never thought, I'm going to be an artist.
anybody artist mom
My mom was an orphan, and there was never anybody to tell her what she could or couldn't do. At the core, she's probably an artist - an artist and a feminist.
almost artists education problems safe step talk terrified
I don't know why so many artists talk about the mainstream's problems from the fringe. I think, unfortunately, it's almost like our education makes us too safe and terrified to step into the world.
art cannot funny history hybrid mixing music notions parts problem sort
I don't know why we, in the art world, cannot unpack things and sort of make hybrid notions of a practice. We're very rigid. It's funny, though; in music, we have no problem sampling, mixing and remixing. But in the art world, why can't we take little parts of history and mix it together?
brought free mom
My mom was a free spirit, and she brought me up to be a free spirit.
ended example guy
I ended up being an example. That let me know that this guy was serious.
intrigued outside street watching
I have always been very intrigued by the outside of buildings. I can just walk down the street and be content with watching facades. I don't have to go inside.
relationship
I go through the arc of a relationship with every single painting that I do.
guard
I can go to my own opening, and the security guard will tell me that I have to go to the security entrance.
bother community fully interested present wherever
I am fully present wherever I am. Why bother being in a community or neighborhood and not being fully present? I think that's colonization. I'm not interested in that.
became believe opened picked reason stand
When I was thirteen, I was in a supermarket with my mother, and for no reason at all, I picked up a science-fiction book at the checkout stand and started reading it. I couldn't believe I was doing that, actually reading a book. And, man, it opened up a whole new thing. Reading became the sparkplug of my imagination.