The applied scraps are perm
endpapers used in hairdressing.
A recipient of a 2009 MacArthur Foundation Award (known as the «genius grant»), Bradford uses found materials — peeling movie posters, homemade flyers, salvaged plywood, even
the endpapers used to perm black hair — to create his vibrant, textured compositions.
Not exact matches
One of the earliest works in the show is Enter and Exit the New Negro (2001), a minimalist canvas made from perm
endpapers — a material
used in the straightening of African - American hair.
Executed in 1971, this lot is
used as the catalogue's
endpapers and has a conservative estimate of $ 50,000 to $ 70,000.
In recent work, Clay has focused on two contrasting sets of artifacts — first, on the Black Paintings of Frank Stella, iconic monuments to modernist authorship, and, second, on handmade marbleized paper (such as that
used in the colorful
endpapers of antique books), readily identifiable as a reference to anonymous historical craft.
Logically enough, this particular setting reflected strongly upon his initial art as Mark's earliest works were made with the
use of permanent - wave
endpapers, foil and dye.