Mark Bradford, A Truly Rich Man is One Whose Children Run Into His Arms When His Hands are Empty, 2008, mixed media collage on canvas, 102 x 144".
Boston
Mark Bradford: You're Nobody (Til Somebody Kills You)
Institute of Contemporary Art
November 19–May 13
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (MCA Chicago)
220 East Chicago Avenue
June 1–October 1
Wexner Center for the Arts
The Ohio State University
1871 North High Street
May 8–August 15
Dallas Museum of Art
1717 North Harwood
October 6–January 15
Curated by Chistopher Bedford
An incisive archaeologist of the street, Mark Bradford is best known for his wall-size, often cartographic paintings incorporating the collage and décollage of scavenged urban detritus. This ten-year survey will foreground those works while highlighting significant new pieces in sculpture, film, and other media. The rough-hewn installation Pinocchio Is on Fire, 2010, for example, employs sound and mock interviews to unearth historical events and cultural phenomena that have affected the African-American community in Los Angeles. The accompanying catalogue includes essays by Robert Storr, Hilton Als, and the curator, among others. _Travels to the Institute of Contemporary Art, Chicago, June–Sept. 2011; Dallas Museum of Art, Oct. 16, 2011–Jan. 15, 2012; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Feb. 18–May 20, 2012.
