Mark Bradford
Mark Bradford
Mark Bradfordis an American artist living and working in Los Angeles...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionArtist
CountryUnited States of America
coming constantly engage people public tall ways
When you're as tall as I am, you have no public privacy. People are constantly coming up and talking to you. Constantly. You have one of two ways to go: you engage with people, or you become really bitter. I choose to engage.
figure life organic whatever work
Life, work - it's all very organic and fluid, a laboratory. I always tell people: whatever your thing is, you just have to be in it. Jump in; you'll figure it out.
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.
guard
I can go to my own opening, and the security guard will tell me that I have to go to the security entrance.
borders economic los north south west
The freeways create economic and racial borders in Los Angeles. South of Interstate 10 is one group of people, west of the 10 another, and south of the 405 North yet another.
buildings buying mentor whatever
I just like artist-driven projects, but for artists themselves: artist spaces, artist mentor programs, and artists buying buildings and making lofts. Doing whatever we can do. Because at the end of the day, I really think that we as a community only have each other.
time wonder
About the time I was 7, I got really into black-exploitation films, so I made my own Wonder Woman, but I made her black.
underlying
Everything I do has an underlying political question.
fatigue fire major obviously trained
This is what we are trained for. We are trained to go into fire combat. When it comes to back-to-back major incidents, obviously there is a fatigue factor.