- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know why we, in the art world, cannot unpack things and sort of make hybrid notions of a practice. We're very rigid. It's funny, though; in music, we have no problem sampling, mixing and remixing. But in the art world, why can't we take little parts of history and mix it together?
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just like artist-driven projects, but for artists themselves: artist spaces, artist mentor programs, and artists buying buildings and making lofts. Doing whatever we can do. Because at the end of the day, I really think that we as a community only have each other.
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom was an orphan, and there was never anybody to tell her what she could or couldn't do. At the core, she's probably an artist - an artist and a feminist.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was thirteen, I was in a supermarket with my mother, and for no reason at all, I picked up a science-fiction book at the checkout stand and started reading it. I couldn't believe I was doing that, actually reading a book. And, man, it opened up a whole new thing. Reading became the sparkplug of my imagination.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything I do has an underlying political question.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
I fell through the holes in the educational system. But education is still a way to change a life.
- Follow
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just follow the things I'm interested in. That's always guided me. If I'm interested in something, that's where I go.
- Economic
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- Nov 07, 2020
The freeways create economic and racial borders in Los Angeles. South of Interstate 10 is one group of people, west of the 10 another, and south of the 405 North yet another.
- Blanket
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't believe in blanket statements on race.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the end of the day, I'm an artist. I may make work and decide to do something political, but it will come out of an artist's position. It won't come out of society telling me I have to. If I do, it's because I choose, as an artist, to do it.
- Car
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- Nov 07, 2020
The police pull up in back of my car and run my plates - they don't see you as you are; they see you through a racialized negative gaze. I think the best thing is not to internalize it too much, or it'll make you crazy because you know it's going to happen again.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been inspired by small details that make me wander. My mother would ask me, 'What are you looking at so intensely?' I would answer, 'Everything and nothing.' She really supported my wanderings, called me Marco Polo.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the city, you're always looking around, observing everything. In some neighborhoods, your life can depend on it. The details change constantly.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life, work - it's all very organic and fluid, a laboratory. I always tell people: whatever your thing is, you just have to be in it. Jump in; you'll figure it out.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can go to my own opening, and the security guard will tell me that I have to go to the security entrance.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Generally, when I tell people I'm a painter, they ask me if I have a card: 'Yes, we'd like this room in this color.' I still might get cards that say 'Mark Bradford. Painter.'
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
I figure if you have one person that loves you, that's enough, growing up. You just need one person in your corner.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Crisis
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Painting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I go through the arc of a relationship with every single painting that I do.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020