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That's how I make work. Along the way, I take notes, I read about history and popular culture. Sometimes I act out things in the studio. I go back to my mother's hair salon so I can hear three voices going all at once. I pull inspiration from everything.

~Mark Bradford

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About the time I was 7, I got really into black-exploitation films, so I made my own Wonder Woman, but I made her black.

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I can go to my own opening, and the security guard will tell me that I have to go to the security entrance.

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I figure if you have one person that loves you, that's enough, growing up. You just need one person in your corner.

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I never expected to run into a room and suddenly I belonged. I figured people who live on the fringes of society, they're more free. They can choose to visit anywhere; they don't belong to anywhere. It's like being without a nation, in a way.

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In North America, what happens often is that they put race before nationhood. Everyone here is Hispanic-American, Chinese-American, African-American. But really, we're just North Americans of all these different descents. The only time I notice North Americans becoming national is when a war happens or a crisis happens.

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When you're as tall as I am, you have no public privacy. People are constantly coming up and talking to you. Constantly. You have one of two ways to go: you engage with people, or you become really bitter. I choose to engage.

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I am fully present wherever I am. Why bother being in a community or neighborhood and not being fully present? I think that's colonization. I'm not interested in that.

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You either have to find a way to be really creative materially, or you better have a trust fund. And, last I checked, I didn't have a trust fund.

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I go through the arc of a relationship with every single painting that I do.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: Unknown

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