Bradford, who grew up in South Central L.A., turns his reflections on urban life into teeming semiabstract collages. Pasting, painting, abrading and building up again, he maps his bristling awareness into canvases that could double as aerial views of the city's collective unconscious. 5/289/18
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Mark Bradford
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago