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Our debut collaboration with renowned US artist Mark Bradford excavates the social, political and physical terrains of bodies in crisis.
Scorched Earth presents an aerial map of a neighbourhood in Tulsa once known as 'Black Wall Street'. Mark disrupts the urban landscape with a huge swathe of intense black that represents both the physical and psychological scar of the Tulsa Race Massacre in 1921. Around Scorched Earth are small colourful forms that embody the varied and vivid lives impacted by the episode of white supremacist violence and arson.
When Mark painted the original in 2006, he also had in mind the destruction he had witnessed during the 1992 uprising in his hometown of Los Angeles. The edition was created in collaboration with The Broad — home to the original Scorched Earth — in celebration of the museum’s tenth anniversary.
For our printmakers, preserving the rich materiality of Scorched Earth was vital when translating the work to print. Its relief texture was achieved by striking contrasts in ink density, while the play between matte and gloss adds to the standout dynamism of the 20-colour silkscreen.
Mark Bradford 1 collaborationMark Bradford has likened his practice to archaeology – “I excavate, and I build at the same time.” Mark looks to material to bring the outside world into his studio. In doing so, he uncovers how social and political structures show up in the built environment. Mark works across a range of mediums from printmaking to film, but he is best known for his abstract mixed media paintings created out of paper. Works such as Manifest Destiny (2023) draw explicitly from localised street posters — ‘merchant posters’ — that both serve and prey upon vulnerable communities. Through collage and décollage techniques using caulk and found paper (e.g. maps, end papers, neighbourhood advertisements, billboards, and movie posters), he creates paintings that are physically embedded with the “memory of things pasted and things past.”
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