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MARK BRADFORD AND MICHAEL AUPING

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Join Mark Bradford and curator Michael Auping for a public conversation at Tate Modern.

Bradford will discuss how he uses merchant billboards, posters and other found materials to engage issues of race, queerness and social inequality. The discussion will trace the evolution of Bradford’s practice and explore his unique relationship to paper as both an ordinary material and an extraordinary conveyor of society’s intentions and rights.*

AMERICAN ARTIST LECTURE SERIES

MARK BRADFORD*

Monday, September 30, at 6:30 pm.

Starr Cinema, Tate Modern

Bankside, London.

Mark Bradford, from top: Dancing in the Street (2019), video still; Sapphire Blue, 2018, mixed media on canvas; Frostbite, 2019, mixed media on canvas. Canvas artwork photographs by Joshua White. Images courtesy and © Mark Bradford and Hauser & Wirth.

MARK BRADFORD AT OTIS

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This weekend, Mark Bradford will address the Otis College of Art and Design’s Class of 2018 at its graduation ceremony, and receive an honorary degree from the institution.

 

MARK BRADFORD COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS, Sunday, May 13, at noon.

OTIS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN, 9045 Lincoln Boulevard, Westchester, Los Angeles.

otis.edu/mark-bradford-commencement-address

See: artandpractice.org

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HENRY TAYLOR IN TOKYO AND LOS ANGELES

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An exhibition of new paintings by Henry Taylor will be up in Tokyo through mid-May. In Los Angeles, Taylor will be honored at the ICA LA benefit brunch, with a tribute by Mark Bradford.

“For Taylor, portraiture is much more than an artistic convention of a realistic painter; the variety that he produces within the genre reshapes what might be considered a conventional language into a flexible vehicle for a much larger goal, which is to produce a multivalent but also highly specific view of contemporary life as seen through the eyes of an African American artist at the beginning of the twenty-first century.” – Laura Hoptman*

 

HENRY TAYLOR, through May 19.

BLUM & POE, 1-14-34 Jingumae, Shibuya, Tokyo.

* blumandpoe.com/henry-taylor

ICA LA BENEFIT BRUNCH, Saturday, May 12, at noon.

INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES, 1717 East 7th Street, downtown Los Angeles.

theicala.org/brunch

Top: Henry Taylor, Island: Antiparos, Greece, 2017, acrylic on canvas, 40 x 36 x 7/8 inches.

Bottom: Henry Taylor, Untitled, 2017, acrylic on canvas, 18 x 24 x 3/4 inches.
Image credit: © 2018 Henry Taylor and Blum & Poe. All rights reserved.

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MARK BRADFORD — NEW WORK

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Paintings executed this year by Mark Bradford comprise the inaugural exhibition at Hauser & Wirth Hong Kong.

 

MARK BRADFORD, through May 12.

HAUSER & WIRTH HONG KONG, 15-16/F, H QUEEN’S, 80 Queen’s Road Central, Hong Kong.

hauserwirth.com/mark-bradford

Above: Mark Bradford, My Head Became a Rock. Book cover credit: Hauser & Wirth.

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Mark Bradford, I finally touched the sky, 2018.

© Mark Bradford. Photographs by Joshua White.

Images courtesy of the artist and Hauser & Wirth.

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MARK BRADFORD AND SHARON LOCKHART IN CONVERSATION

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At this year’s VENICE BIENNALE, Los Angeles-based artists Sharon Lockhart and Mark Bradford found themselves in the position of “representing” two counties whose federal governments have, to varying degrees, fallen into the hands of nationalist, reactionary forces: the United States in Bradford’s case, Poland in Lockhart’s. (See the recent fate of Pawel Machcewicz, below.*)

This week at the Orpheum Theatre, curator/critic Katy Siegel and the Broad Museum’s Un-Private Collection program welcome Bradford and Lockhart for a conversation about community engagement and their recent work for the biennale.

MARK BRADFORD, SHARON LOCKHART + KATY SIEGEL, Wednesday, August 16, at 7:30 pm.

ORPHEUM THEATRE, 842 South Broadway, downtown Los Angeles.

thebroad.org/programs/un-private-collection-mark-bradford-sharon-lockhart-katy-siegel

2017 ART + FILM GALA HONORING MARK BRADFORD AND GEORGE LUCAS, Saturday, November 4.

LACMA, 5905 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles.

lacma.org/sites/default/files/LACMA-2017-Art%2BFilm-Gala-Announcement-8.1.17-final_0.pdf

MARK BRADFORD: TOMORROW IS ANOTHER DAY, UNITED STATES PAVILION.

SHARON LOCKHART: LITTLE REVIEW, POLISH PAVILION

VENICE BIENNALE, through November 26.

labiennale.org/en

*See, Rachel Donadio, “What Poland Did in the War: Museum Becomes a Cultural and Political Battlefield,” New York Times, November 10, 2016; and Julia Marchalska, “Director of Poland’s Second World War Museum Dismissed,” The Art Newspaper, April 11, 2017:

theartnewspaper.com/news/museums/director-of-poland-s-second-world-war-museum-dismissed/

Top: Mark Bradford, Tomorrow is Another Day installation view, 2017 Venice Biennale.

Bottom: Mark Bradford, Spoiled Foot (prototype for Venice Biennale, photographed at Bradford’s studio in Los Angeles), 2017. Images courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth

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