Mark Bradford in Paradox

The first video I watched I thought was quite interesting, in the way he brings meaning
to his work that is similar to that of a collage, by bringing together pieces of different posters
billboards and any other scraps he can find to combine them and create one big visually
exhausting piece; that holds a whole new meaning.
My practice is both collage and dcollage at the same time, says Mark Bradford. Dcollage
you take it away, and then collage, I immediately add it right back. Using a combination of
signage from the city streets, including business advertisements and merchant posters, twine,
and glue, Bradford produces wall-sized paintings and installations that are a reflection of the
conditions that are going on at that particular moment at that particular location, he says. In
one installation at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Bradford uses video to juxtapose
two eventsa celebratory Martin Luther King Day parade in Los Angeles, and a busy Muslim
marketplace in Cairo. (ART21, Inc. 20012014)
I also appreciate how he uses his art to represent and in a way symbolize his community and
the things he admires around him.






Ann Hamilton in Spirituality

Whether working with sculpture, textiles, film, and sound, or even her unique mouth-operated
pinhole cameras, Ann Hamilton finds all her art to be about a "very fundamental act of making."
"When I'm making work," she says, "there's a point where I can't see it. And then there's that
moment where you can see itit's like it bites youand you think it might be beautiful."
Filmed on location in Lexington, Virginia, where she is in the process of a new installation
"ghost: a border act," the segment travels with Hamilton to her home in Columbus, Ohio,
where she is shown experimenting with bubbles that stretch from floor to ceiling.(ART21, Inc.
20012014)
Hamilton speaks about the connections between the thread of sewing and the thread of a
writing. She grew up doing a lot of hand work sewing knitting embroidering etc. She finds
meaning in each thread that makes up a piece of cloth and views it as a social metaphor.
Hamilton also believes that the relationship between the thread, written, and drawn line has a
fundamental act of making. That the relationship of the line that makes something is related
to how we make things with language. She creates pieces that that we are not accustomed to
viewing as traditional art and in that way we must step outside of our comfort zone and
general understanding of art in order to fully analyze what her work consists of.






Susan Rothenberg in
Memory
A transplant from New York,
Susan Rothenberg produces
paintings that reflect her
move to an isolated home
studio in New Mexico and
her evolving interest in the
memory of observed and
experienced events. In her
early career, she became
noted for her series of large
paintings of horses. Now,
however, she does not find
herself creating series. The
paintings are more of a battle
to satisfy myself now and I
dont have a sense of series, she says. Drawing on material from her daily life, she confesses
that in her current work the second painting seems to complete the series. Sitting in her
studio, Rothenberg speaks candidly about her working process and her occasional battles with
artistic block.
(ART21, Inc. 20012014)
Enjoys working with very warm colors reds, and oranges. She enjoys creating seemingly
abstract paintings. Doesnt really like horses, but has created several pieces with horses as the
focal object. She creates what she think will be accepted as art in society. Sometimes she is
uncertain about her work so she reviews them constantly and changes things up to get them
the way they should be.