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“I think that people who lived on the margins, and people who don’t feel like they should take up space are the main ones who should take up space. ‘Excuse me, would you mind if history moved forward?’ No! Force… aggressive… you demand.” —Mark Bradford
If Ed Ruscha (b. 1937) is the King of California Cool and an icon of his generation of Los Angeles artists, surely the new icon of this generation of Los Angeles artists (and perhaps American artists) is superstar Mark Bradford (b. 1961). Born and raised in Los Angeles, in 2009 Bradford was a recipient of a Macarthur “Genius” award, and on the occasion of his 2017 Venice Biennale exhibition Tomorrow is Another Day, representing the United States, Andrew Goldstein of Artnet News referred to Bradford as no less than “our Jackson Pollock.”
So while you are in Los Angeles for Frieze Los Angeles, the attendant activities, and visiting LACMA, don’t miss his installation there, 150 Portrait Tone, in the Resnick Pavilion.
In this April 2018 video from Bloomberg’s Brilliant Ideas series, Bradford discusses the impact of his upbringing on his art, his social activism, and what drives his studio practice, while reflecting on his Biennale appearance, and working in his studio on his then forthcoming Hirshhorn commission, Pickett’s Charge. With appearances from Zoe Whitley (Tate Modern), Connie Butler (Hammer Museum), and Michael Govan (LACMA).
