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Artist Mark Bradford smiles in front of a textured abstract artwork at the 57th Venice Biennale art exhibition in Italy. A visitor walks along a curved gallery wall covered with Mark Bradford's large mixed media artwork "Battle" at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, DC. City of the Big Shoulders
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Artist Mark Bradford smiles in front of a textured abstract artwork at the 57th Venice Biennale art exhibition in Italy.
Mark Bradford American multimedia artist Mark Bradford at the 2017 Venice Biennale, for which he was chosen to represent the United States.

Mark Bradford

American multimedia artist
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Mark Bradford (born November 20, 1961, Los Angeles, California, U.S.) is an American multimedia artist known for his monumental, densely layered canvases constructed from shredded posters, hairstyling supplies, and other byproducts of everyday life. Although primarily abstract, his work engages obliquely with social issues and the fraught racial history of the United States. Bradford grew up in a boarding house in the West Adams neighborhood of South Los Angeles. By the mid-20th century, the former...

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