Mark Bradford (b. 1961)

The French affichistes had made paintings from torn and defaced commercial ads in the fifties, but Bradford’s merchant posters sing a different and distinctly American song, about people who live on the fringes and make their lives up from day to day.
—C. Tomkins, "What Else Can Art Do? The Many Layers of Mark Bradford's Work", The New Yorker, 15 June 2015