MARK BRADFORD
Art21 Mark Bradford link: https://art21.org/watch/art-in-the-twenty-first-century/s4/mark-bradford-in-paradox-segment/
The art 21 segment is very good, but I really like the 60 minute interview better below:
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MARK BRADFORD
Mark Bradford was born in Los Angeles, California, in 1961. He received a BFA (1995) and MFA (1997) from the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia. Bradford transforms materials scavenged from the street into wall-size collages and installations that respond to the impromptu networks—underground economies, migrant communities, or popular appropriation of abandoned public space—that emerge within a city.
Art21 Mark Bradford link: https://art21.org/watch/art-in-the-twenty-first-century/s4/mark-bradford-in-paradox-segment/ The art 21 segment is very good, but I really like the 60 minute interview better below: NICHOLAS HLOBO
From the art 21 site: https://art21.org/watch/art-in-the-twenty-first-century/s9/nicholas-hlobo-in-johannesburg-segment/
Nicholas Hlobo’s gorgeously handcrafted paintings, sculptures, and performances utilize leather, ribbon, and rubber to quietly and subversively examine his sexuality, masculinity, and Xhosa heritage within South African culture. Shopping for materials at a local Johannesburg leather shop and working in his studio (a former synagogue), Hlobo weaves together symbolic bodily innuendos and historical references in his work, examining and exposing the challenges of the country’s young democracy. Hlobo brings one of his performances to a renovated church in Harlem, New York City, to investigate the history of missionaries in South Africa and the more subtle ways that bodies are colonized today.
Utilize something related to your sustained investigation as part of the process or as a layer within your image. You can use this as part of the background design to create added texture, rhythm or movement.
EX: if your concentration is about freedom vs. imprisonment, you could use rope (representing imprisonment) to create movement lines in your background. Ex: if your concentration is about natural herbs used in cooking, you can use those actual herbs ground up to make a paste and include into the paint layer. (this may not be seen, but its a symbolic part of your process) Ex: if you concentration is about a tragic fire, you could take actual ash and use it as a media within your piece. (be sure to take photos of you burning to create the ash and be under the watchful eye of an adult ) Ex: if your piece is about the dangers of rumors, you could photocopy rumors of what people are saying (I'm assuming online rumors) and use them in the background of the overall piece. MARK BRADFORD--FOCUS ON THE PROCESS!!
If Mark Bradford was going to show images of his work to the AP College Board, how would they be able to see the process? How should he explain the process in his artist statement? How is his choice of materials important to what he is trying to say in his art?
Art21 Mark Bradford link: https://art21.org/watch/art-in-the-twenty-first-century/s4/mark-bradford-in-paradox-segment/ Want to find out more? Check out these other Mark Bradford interviews!! Radcliff Bailey: uses meaningful objects in his mixed media work!
This internationally famous artist from Atlanta uses meaningful objects within his mixed media work! Check out this interview with the artist about his piece "Seven Steps East." Interview taken from "Amherst Student" https://amherststudent.amherst.edu/article/2018/04/03/qa-artist-radcliffe-bailey-process-creation-and-acceptance.html
Option #2 Constraint: Addition of fibers, Fabric, yarn, string, etc. OR addition of Weaving within the composition
Create any type of composition you'd like, but somewhere within, you will need to include Fabric, Yarn, String, OR some sort of Weaving. See below for other artists who use some of these types of techniques within their work.
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