For me, the '80s were like the drawing by Botticelli of the nine rings of hell.
That's how I am and how I've always looked at the world. I understood what the pavilions were before I came to Venice, and I knew that wasn't going t… - Mark Bradford
That's how I am and how I've always looked at the world. I understood what the pavilions were before I came to Venice, and I knew that wasn't going t…
- Mark Bradford
A Scorpio, it's just about peeling back the layers. And I'm always surprised at myself-there's a lot under there. - Mark Bradford
A Scorpio, it's just about peeling back the layers. And I'm always surprised at myself-there's a lot under there.
I never have a problem with being black. I have a problem with the easy association of what that means to some people. - Mark Bradford
I never have a problem with being black. I have a problem with the easy association of what that means to some people.
Often culture gets stuck in static, traditional narratives. Contemporary ideas give culture elasticity, flexibility, which is always a breath of fres… - Mark Bradford
Often culture gets stuck in static, traditional narratives. Contemporary ideas give culture elasticity, flexibility, which is always a breath of fres…
If power is abstraction, which many black men, black women, and people of color have very little voice in, well, then I want to sit at the table. - Mark Bradford
If power is abstraction, which many black men, black women, and people of color have very little voice in, well, then I want to sit at the table.
When I was 18 years old, there was no internet and no gay teen nights. Instead, you went to the clubs and talked to grown men and did grown-up things. - Mark Bradford
When I was 18 years old, there was no internet and no gay teen nights. Instead, you went to the clubs and talked to grown men and did grown-up things.
I remind myself that we need to continue to do the things we believe in and be even more vocal about asking people to do more. This might be my Scorp… - Mark Bradford
I remind myself that we need to continue to do the things we believe in and be even more vocal about asking people to do more. This might be my Scorp…
I always made stuff but never thought, I'm going to be an artist. - Mark Bradford
I always made stuff but never thought, I'm going to be an artist.
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 … - Mark Bradford
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 …
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