Jul 18, 2011
This week: Duncan and Claudine talk with Mark Bradford!
Deeply influenced by his experience growing up in South Central
Los Angeles, the titles of his works often allude to stereotypes
and the dynamics of class, race, and gender-based economies that
structure urban society in the United States, specifically those of
Los Angeles where he lives and works.
An anthropologist of his own environment, Bradford describes
himself as a "modern-day flaneur," saying, "I like to walk through
the city and find details and then abstract them and make them my
own. I'm not speaking for a community or trying to make a
sociopolitical point. At the end it's my mapping. My
subjectivity."