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Mark Bradford All I Need is “One” More Chance 2002 Collage, acrylic paint and felt tip pen on canvas. 72 x 84 in. (182.9 x 213.4 cm). Titled and dated “All I Need is One More Chance 2002” on the reverse.
Provenance Lombard-Freid Projects, New York Literature S. Nelson, Mark Bradford New York, 2006, p. 19 (illustrated) Catalogue Essay All I Need is “One” More Chance is a large grid-like composition and gestural collage of layered, scavenged materials. As a mixed media piece, it is painterly and sculptural, formal and graffiti-esque, with natural and artificial forms. As a juxtaposition of ideas, it resembles a visual mapping, an explosive assemblage of cultural systems. It mimics the aesthetic of organizational structures, the maniacality of bureaucracy and the ritualistic behavior of humans in the modern world. Bradford’s ability to make these works of organic textural forms and pixilated eruptions, punctured by bursts of color is no small feat. As an artist, Bradford possesses inherent technical skill and merit with an uncanny ability to explore overlapped meaning. His work carries an air of mysticism, a myopic view of utopia—a reinterpreted topography of landscape with darker undertones. There are displaced remnants of real life scattered across the canvas—a collision of aesthetics where opposites collide. The artist captures a still moment, a snapshot of the daily minutiae as well as the excitement and idealism of life, in a single frame. Read More