Mark Bradford, Constitution IV, 2013, Mixed Media on Canvas, 132
Mark Bradford employs a décollage technique using layers of found printed materials to build up the surfaces of his canvases before manipulating them by alternately sanding them and building them back up again with more paper. The texts or images appear and disappear in a manner that invokes a sense of transience and instability. In his series on the US Constitution, Bradford cited entire sections of the text to illustrate that the document is living and fragile.
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