Mark Bradford (b. 1961)

“As the California sunshine beats down on the cheap color paper, I watch it go from bright fluorescent to faded and burned surfaces which begin to peel and look less and less to the passerby like advertisements and more and more like the remnants of a decaying city. What is most vivid to me as the paper begins to pile up in my studio, ready to become something else, is that I have forgotten and remembered it a thousand times.” (M. Bradford, quoted in C. Foster, Neither New nor Correct: New Work by Mark Bradford, exh. cat, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 2007, p. 23).