Tag Archives: Mark Bradford
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles: Berlin Wall Falls in L.A.
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles: Berlin Wall Falls in L.A.
Tuesday night, former U.S. Ambassador Richard Barkley called East Berlin a “profoundly boring place,” drab and depressing compared to other places he’d been. His callous observation loosely framed a panel …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Wrestling with the Past: A TwCA 2008-2009 Roundup
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Wrestling with the Past: A TwCA 2008-2009 Roundup
It’s been quite a year. Quite an academic year, that is. Between the country voicing a collective NO to four more years of the same Bushed policies and Bernie Madoff …
Letter from London
Letter from London: Everybody Be Cool, This Is An Art Gallery!
Letter from London
Letter from London: Everybody Be Cool, This Is An Art Gallery!
If Abstract America, the new show of contemporary American painting and sculpture at the Saatchi Gallery, were a film, it’d be one of those earnest indie dramas made for hipster …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
A Live Feed: Art21 Tweets Mark Bradford
Teaching with Contemporary Art
A Live Feed: Art21 Tweets Mark Bradford
Art21 is presenting at the National Art Education Association’s convention in Minneapolis. We are working with Mark Bradford at this year’s convention on a couple presentations as well as shooting …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
The Hope Hippos Head to NAEA
Teaching with Contemporary Art
The Hope Hippos Head to NAEA
Beginning this Friday morning, I will be joined by my equally energetic and optimistic colleagues, Jessica Hamlin and Marc Mayer, as we descend on the National Art Education Association’s Annual …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
On representations of the artist at work (Part 2)
Teaching with Contemporary Art
On representations of the artist at work (Part 2)
Following up our discussion about documentation of the creative process in the cases of Mark Bradford and Jackson Pollock, my students and I talked about what we might include in …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
On representations of the artist at work
Teaching with Contemporary Art
On representations of the artist at work
[youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aX9SVg6L5vA] In the Art:21 Season 4 episode Paradox, artist Mark Bradford cites the legacy of Abstract Expressionism as an influence on his process-oriented paintings and collages. On a formal level, …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Contemporary Art Start at MoCA, Los Angeles
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Contemporary Art Start at MoCA, Los Angeles
Two weeks ago, from August 11-15, I had the pleasure of spending a week working with a number of outstanding art teachers at the MoCA, Los Angeles summer institute, Contemporary …
Art21 Extended Play
Mark Bradford | Paper
Art21 Extended Play
Mark Bradford | Paper
EXCLUSIVE: Mark Bradford painting Ridin’ Dirty (2006) in his Los Angeles studio. Mark Bradford transforms materials scavenged from the street into wall-sized collages and installations that respond to the impromptu …