NATIONAL ARTIST SPOTLIGHT MARK BRADFORD by Nancy Nesvet Mark Bradford makes a deliberate effort to personalize and reimagine history, leaving them in the same place artistically: redefining American history; contemporizing, personalizing and illustrating Americans’ history. His 10-year survey of past work at the ICA Boston (March 2010 to March 2011); his 2014 “Sea Monsters” show at Brandeis University’s Rose Art Museum that was highlighted by his site-specific mural entitled “King’s Mirror”; and his successful nomination by former Rose Museum director Christopher Bedford to represent the United States at the Venice Biennale 2017 are causing waves in the art world as they reveal, tear up, paint over and deconstruct history. Bradford’s “Pickett’s Charge” site-specific commission of eight billboard-sized paintings commands the third-floor circular rotunda of the … [Read more...] about MARK BRADFORD: PAINTING A NEW VIEW OF HISTORY