CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 5/6/2016

Mark Bradford: Tears of a Tree

This detail of "Lazy Mountain," Mark Bradford's 39-foot-long collage painting on canvas, is reproduced from Verlag Für Kunst Nurnberg's recent Bradford catalog, Tears of a Tree. Available at our pop-up bookstore at Frieze New York, it documents recent work by "arguably the hottest contemporary artist in the country," according to the Washington Post, and the newly minted representative of the United States at the 2017 Venice Biennale. The last painting in a 2014 Shanghai-inspired series, "Lazy Mountain" is the "most mysterious and ethereal… The work is unusual in that the marks left on the canvas are made by the stains of carbon paper—residual ink imprints in varying hues of black and gray. There is no layering of surface here, no sanding down; instead, the canvas remains exposed, a rare occurrence in Bradford’s work."