Mark Bradford

Be Strong Boquan

7 November - 23 December 2015

New York, 18th Street

Beginning 7 November 2015, Hauser & Wirth will present ‘Mark Bradford. Be Strong Boquan’, the gallery’s first New York exhibition devoted to the Los Angeles-based artist. Recognized for expansive multi-layered collage paintings that are built up into intricate and mysterious layers, Bradford is admired for his uncanny ability to conflate the chaos of social and political forces with a particularly rigorous physical and conceptual approach to each canvas. Bradford’s subjects – and his ideas about places and about the people and the networks that constitute and bind them together – are explored through the materiality of his works, which physically recover lived experiences of his urban environment.

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About the Artist

Mark Bradford

Mark Bradford (b. 1961 in Los Angeles; lives and works in Los Angeles) is a contemporary artist best known for his large-scale abstract paintings created out of paper. Characterized by its layered formal, material, and conceptual complexity, Bradford’s work explores social and political structures that objectify marginalized communities and the...

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