NPR | MORNING EDITION
By Susan Stamberg
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| Mark Bradford says he wanted his Spoiled Foot installation to make the viewer feel "as if the center of the room was no longer available."
Joshua White/Courtesy Mark Bradford, Hauser & Wirth |
Mark Bradford is an activist and abstract artist who tends to get described with a lot of adjectives — tall (he's 6'8"), black and gay; he's been both a hairdresser and a MacArthur Fellow. "What's most important to me is that I'm an artist," Bradford says. In 2017 Bradford represented the U.S. at the Venice Biennale. Now his work is on view at The Baltimore Museum of Art. It's a beautiful, uncomfortable and haunting work of art inspired by real-life horrors — "the mold that you saw permeating New Orleans after Katrina, or the skin disease that was one of the first signs of the AIDS crisis," Siegel explains. His exhibit
Tomorrow Is Another Day will be on view at the Baltimore Museum of Art through March. [
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| Bradford represented the U.S. at the 2017 Venice Biennale. His exhibit, Tomorrow Is Another Day, is now at the Baltimore Museum of Art.
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| "I always just liked the way in which he owned the sidewalk," Bradford says of the man in his silent video, Niagara.
Joshua White/Baltimore Museum of Art |
