Courtesy @brettgorvy | It was announced today that Los Angeles-based artist Mark Bradford will represent the United States at the Venice Biennale in 2017. Here is Bradford making his site specific "pull painting" at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford in 2015. Inspired by the temporal wall drawings of Sol LeWitt, Bradford adhered lines of ropes horizontally across the span of a 60 foot rectangle, over which he pasted layers of multicolored paper. He yanked out the embedded ropes, exposing colors and creating jagged lines within the surface. "It's anti-compositional controlled chaos," stated Bradford. "The force of the line has to do with how hard you pull. If you pull hard, you get a crisp line, and if you pull slower, you get a fatter line. It's like a visceral thing. You're just in it. You just let it go, stop all the logic and planning and start to deal with the material when it is speaking back to you." The work was intended to be displayed only for the duration of the exhibit and then it was destroyed. "What I make doesn't have to go on for 1,000 years after I die. Something will go on for 1,000 years, but it doesn't have to have my name on it." - #TheYesUniverse #markbradford #americanpavilion #venicebiennale #materialworld #losangeles #favoriteartist #ripcord #actionpainter #thousandyearoldman #wadsworthatheneum #pullpainting #ropetrick #contemporaryart Music - Depeche Mode - Barrel of a Gun #depechemode
