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10/8/2012

Mark Bradford

Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC

Over the past 10 years, Mark Bradford has emerged as one of the most inventive and accomplished artists of his generation. In 2009 he received the MacArthur Foundation “genius” award and in 2010 a traveling mid-career survey of his work was organized by the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, OH. Bradford is best known for his large-scale, painterly collages and installations that demonstrate his interest in mapping communities and underground economies. His works are largely made from signage and salvaged materials, often taken from the streets of South Central Los Angeles where he lives. He tears, paints, bleaches, sands and embellishes materials to create abstract works that reimagine the city and reconfigure the urban landscape. Bradford incorporates informal business postings, which advertise everything from gun shows to credit repair, and his work speaks to the adaptive nature of merchant culture, as well as offers subtle investigations of class, race and gender in the United States. This is the first installation of Mark Bradford’s work at the Nasher Museum since the 2007 exhibition Street Level: Mark Bradford, William Cordova, and Rodin Rhode.

Special thanks to Blake Byrne, Suzanne and Howard Feldman, Hunter Gray, Bryan Lipinski and Sikkema Jenkins & Co., who helped make this installation of Mark Bradford’s work possible.

IMAGE: Mark Bradford, Potable Water, 2005. Mixed media collage with billboard paper, photomechanical reproductions, acrylic gel medium and additional mixed media, 130 x 196 inches. Collection of Hunter Gray. Courtesy of the artist and Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York. © Mark Bradford. Photo by Bruce White

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Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University
2001 Campus Drive, Durham, NC, 27705
Museum Hours
Monday - closed
Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday - 10 AM to 5 PM
Thursday - 10 AM to 9 PM (Free to all on Thursday, 5 to 9 PM)
Sunday - Noon to 5 PM
Admission
$5 Adults
$4 Seniors
FREE Nasher members
FREE Children 15 and under
FREE Duke students, faculty and staff with Duke I.D.
FREE Duke Alumni Assoc. Members with Alumni Membership Card
FREE on Thursday, 5-9 PM
Free admission does not include special ticketed exhibitions, such as the upcoming Collecting Matisse and Modern Masters: The Cone Sisters of Baltimore.

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