Palm Springs Art MuseumFound Objects

Mark Bradford, Rat Catcher of Hamelin IV

2011

This artwork is based on a series of fifty billboards gathered from the Leimert Park neighborhood of South Central Los Angeles where Bradford grew up. The LAPD had created the billboards to enlist the assistance of citizens in gathering information about a notorious serial killer. Through his signature manipulations of sanding and stripping, Bradford simultaneously obscures and reveals the narrative subtext of the political and personal assault that the billboards represented.

Esta obra de arte se basa en una serie de cincuenta anuncios espectaculares reunidos del vecindario Leimert Park del centro sur de Los Ángeles, donde Bradford creció. El Departamento de Policía de Los Ángeles había creado los anuncios espectaculares para obtener la ayuda de los ciudadanos para obtener información sobre un notorio asesino en serie. Por medio de sus manipulaciones distintivas de lijado y raspado, Bradford oscurece y revela simultáneamente el subtexto narrativo del asalto político y personal que representaban los anuncios publicitarios.

Mark Bradford, American, born 1961 Rat Catcher of Hamelin IV, 2011 mixed media collage on canvas Museum purchase with funds provided by Donna J. MacMillan, the Contemporary Art Council, the Annette Bloch Acquisition Fund, the Collectors Forum, the Dorothy and Harold Meyerman Honorary Fund, Myrna Kaplan, and funds derived from a previous gift from Mr. and Mrs. Samuel H. Maslon 14‑2012