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As Anderson Cooper first reported this past spring, bradfords abstract canvases, which often deal with complex social and political issues, hang in major museums around the world, as well as private collections, including Anderson Coopers. Mark bradfords art may look like paintings, but theres hardly any paint on them. Theyre made out of layers and layers of paper, which he tears, glues, powerwashes and sands in a style all his own. When he began making art in his 30s, bradford couldnt afford expensive paint, so he started experimenting with endpapers, that are used for styling hair. He got the idea while working as a hair stylist in his moms beauty shop in south los angeles. He was broke, struggling, and didnt sell his First Painting until he was nearly 40. Cooper i heard a story that when you sold your first artwork in 2001, you called up your mom. Do you remember what you said to her . Mark bradford i said, girl, i think i found a way out of the beauty shop. laughs girl, i think i found a way out of the beauty shop. Yeah. Yeah, because i had no idea how i was going to stop being a hair stylist, because thats really the only thing that i knew. I didnt have a problem with being a hair stylist, but its all i knew. Cooper its incredible to think that 2001 is when you first sold a work, and now. Bradford i still sell works. Cooper yeah, you sure do. laughs bradford i sure do. This is the top. Cooper his First Painting sold for 5,000. Now, they can sell for more than 10 million. This new one was bought by the broad museum in los angeles. They have nine other bradfords in their collection. One, two, three. Cooper its called deep blue. Its 12 feet high, 50 feet long, and took a full day to install. Thats all right. That is all right. Cooper none of those colors you see are paint. Its all paper layered on canvas. Its abstract, but not entirely. See those lines that form a grid . Its a street map of the watts neighborhood in los angeles. The colored balls show where properties were damaged in 1965 after six days of violent civil unrest, protests over Police Brutality and racial inequality. We first saw the painting more than a year ago, when bradford had just started working on it in his studio in south los angeles. Hed already made the map of watts out of bathroom caulking. The following month, when we stopped by again, hed laid down 14 layers of colored paper and covered it all up with a layer of black. So, theres a map underneath here . Bradford yes. Cooper of watts . Bradford uhhuh. All these little points are what was looted, what was destroyed. So, i kind of start from a map, and then, on top of it, i think i lay art history and my imagination, all three. Cooper bradford uses household tools to make his paintings. He likes to buy everything at home depot. Bradford my motto was, if home depot didnt have it, Mark Bradford didnt use it. And cooper laughs thats thats your thats your motto . Bradford thats my motto. That was my motto. Cooper to this day, is that. . Bradford to this to this day. Cooper building up the layers of paper on the canvas is just the beginning of his process. He then starts to peel, cut and sand them down, which can take months. Its like an archeological dig. Bradford it is like an archeological dig. Its like history. Im creating my own archaeological or psychol. Psychological digs. Sometimes, when im digging on my own painting, im asking myself, well, exactly what are you digging for . Where do you want to go, child . Oh, see, look. Look at that. See . Now, see, that i like. Cooper a lot of people look at a abstract painting and think, its squiggles, its torn paper, i dont understand it. Bradford yeah, thats true. But for me, those squiggles and torn paper gives me a space to kind of unpack things, like the watts riots. Im grappling with how i feel about that subject and that material. I do grapple with things. I grapple with things personally, and, you know, racially, and politically. What does it mean to be me . Cooper Mark Bradford has been grappling with that question in his art for the last 18 years from making paintings out of street posters like those offering predatory loans in low income neighborhoods; to creating works that address h. I. V. aids, racism and the complexity of american history. Hes 58 years old now, and, at sixfooteight, stands out in a crowd. He still lives in south los angeles, where he grew up. When he was eight, he says he began to get bullied by neighborhood kids. Bradford that was the first time i felt different. That was the first time i was aware of my sensitivity. Thats the first time someone said, oh, youre. You. You. Youre a sissy. I definitely knew that i had to learn to navigate in a more cautious way so that i could survive. I just never had a problem being me. Cooper so, even though people, they were calling you sissy, it didnt make you want to try to change yourself . Bradford not really, no. Not really. I just didnt want to get my ass whooped. Cooper he was raised by his mother, janice banks, who owned her own beauty salon. Thats where bradford would head every day after school. Bradford i knew that i had to find a way to get across the schoolyard. I knew that my mother was always going to be there once i got across the schoolyard. And maybe, maybe, i was in the hair salon every day, watching women get across the schoolyard. laughs i would hear their stories. I would watch them go through, and i just thought, if they can do it, i most certainly can do it. Cooper Mark Bradford started working in the salon as a teenager, eventually becoming a hair stylist. It was a safe place, where he could be himself. But that feeling disappeared in 1981 when his friends began dying from aids. Bradford i knew a storm was coming. I knew that in the gut. I knew that. And people were just dying. Thats what it felt like to me, at 18 years old. I just was thinking, how are we going to make it through . Cooper did you think you would make it through . Bradford no. No. I didnt think id make it through. Cooper thinking he didnt have a future, he didnt plan for one. But when he was nearly 30, he took art classes at a junior college, and he says it clicked. Bradford it was the reading and learning about different scholars and feminism and deconstructing modernism and all. I just oh, man, this is im really into this. Im not exactly sure what it is, but im it just. Yeah. Cooper and youd still work at the hair salon . Bradford oh, yeah. Every day. Cooper and so, youd be studying while at the hair salon . Bradford oh, absolutely. They i put the book in their lap and said, girl, read that back to me. Cooper he won a scholarship to the California Institute of the arts, but struggled to make money as an artist. When he was 39, he finally had a breakthrough. Bradford i was working on a head. Cooper working on a head . Bradford working on a head, working on a. Cooper at the beauty salon. Bradford . Beauty salon, yeah. Because i was still working the hair salon, anderson. I told you that. Cooper i just didnt know that terminology. Bradford i was hooking it up. Right, late at night. I was tired as hell, too. And just, endpapers fell on the floor. And i looked down, i thought, oh, theyre translucent. Oh. Oh, i could use these. Cooper endpapers are small, rectangular tissues used to make permanent waves in hair. Bradford began burning the papers edges and lining them up into grids he glued onto bed sheets. Bradford i knew i was onto something. I knew this was bridging. This material came from a sight outside of the paint store. I think, early on, i was trying to weave these two sides of who i was together, the art world and the sights that i had come from, the life that i had led. I didnt want to leave any of it beh. I didnt want to edit out anything. Cooper private collectors began snapping up his endpaper paintings, and his career took off. applause he is now a celebrity in the art world. applause his gallery openings are star studded events. How are you . Cooper at the latest one in los angeles, beyonce and jayz, who own several bradfords, stopped in. The ten paintings in this exhibition sold out before the gallery doors opened. Bradford look how nice this is. Wow, its gorgeous Cooper Bradford and his partner of more than 20 years, allan dicastro, are committed to using contemporary art and their own money to revitalize the neighborhood bradford grew up in. In 2014, they opened art practice with Eileen Harris norton, the first collector to buy bradfords work. Its a nonprofit complex of buildings that includes a gallery, lecture spaces, and his mothers old beauty salon. Bradford this is the last hair salon that my mom worked in, and then i took it over from her. It was in the 90s. It was called foxy hair. Cooper they turned foxy hair into a center for young adults transitioning out of foster care. Bradford i would run down the block in here and buy myself whatever i needed to put back on the hair. Cooper but we were surprised to learn that Mark Bradford still styles hair. He does it for some of his former clients from the beauty shop, who are also among his closest friends. When you look around, does his art make sense to you . Cleo jackson i. It does. Its like a map in outer space. laughs Danielle Wright no. I mean, i look at it. Its beautiful, but i dont really. Lynette powell get it. Female voices get it. Yeah. Powell he gave me something from his studio a long time ago, and i put it in my garage. laughs bradford she did. Cooper wow. Bradford and i told her. Powell and i put it in my garage. Bradford i said, girl. Powell this is before he got, like. Bradford okay. Powell . Popular, i guess. And, yeah, and its. And its all torn up. And this guy was like, you know, you have Something Like a mona lisa. im like, for real . laughs bradford yall wrong for that. Powell i dont see it. Im. Cooper you dont see it . Powell i dont. But i like how you give a little insight of, like, whats going on in our community. I know that much about your art. So, that much i really like. Cooper bradfords latest work continues to focus on difficult and controversial issues. This painting, which is prominently displayed in the Los Angeles County museum of art, is called 150 portrait tone, and was made in response to the 2016 Fatal Police Shooting of Philando Castile during a traffic stop in minnesota. Diamond reynolds he was trying to get out his i. D. In his wallet, out his pocket, and he let the officer know. Cooper castiles girlfriend, diamond reynolds, livestreamed the incident. Bradford was so haunted by her words, he made them into this painting. Diamond reynolds please dont tell me this, lord. Please, jesus, dont tell me that hes gone. Cooper its really the conversation that his girlfriend is having. Bradford with multiple people, which i was fascinated by. Cooper why were you fascinated by it . Bradford how composed she was. She was having a conversation with her daughter in the backseat, with philando, who was passing away, with god, with us, facebook, and with the policeman, all simultaneously. It was visual, and textual, and heartbreaking, and heroic, and strong all at the same time. Cooper in another major new work, bradford turned his gaze to the civil war. Its called picketts charge, and its a reimagining of a pivotal Union Victory at the battle of gettysburg. It was commissioned by the smithsonians Hirschhorn Museum in washington, d. C. Bradford used as his starting point blownup photos of a 19th century panoramic painting of picketts charge, a painting which offers a romanticized view of the confederacy. He then added layers of paper and cords over it, then carefully gouged, shredded and ripped it apart. Bradford they almost feel like lacerations. Cooper uhhuh. Bradford almost scarring. Cooper uhhuh. Bradford thats what those feel like. And a little bit like bullet wounds. Like youre really. Cooper uhhuh. Yeah. Bradford . Punctured. Cooper its a 360degree painting that raises many questions in bradfords mind, particularly about how we look at history. Its looking at it through a different lens. Bradford yes. Thats the feeling that i wanted you to have, that history was laying on top of it, that. That. Gouging into it, erasing it, bits of it showing. Its kind of me kind of revising it, in a way. Cooper so, is this a more accurate representation of history . Bradford i dont really believe historys ever fully accurate. Cooper its acknowledging that . Bradford its acknowledging the gaps, the things we dont know. Cooper so many people have come to see picketts charge, the hirshhorn has extended the exhibition for two more years. Bradford recently opened a show in london, and is preparing new works for shows in texas and europe. Do you worry about the vagaries of the art world . What is popular today, 20 years from now . Bradford oh, no, no, no, no. I wouldnt have. No. I have never. Cooper i mean, art has value because people believe it has value. Bradford i. No, i think art has value because it has value. Im not going to wait for somebody else to tell me my work has value. I certainly wasnt going to wait on people to tell me i had value. Id probably still be waiting. I just. It has value because i think it has value. And then, if other people get on the value. 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