She has her hands full trying to balance her honors classes with work at
the neighborhood hair salon, and she also wants to learn more about her father's identity.
The Los Angeles native often uses found materials imbued with social and political meaning, such as street signs plucked from abandoned lots or the paper implements used in
neighborhood hair salons, to create thickly layered paintings in a process he described in a video interview with Art21 as «decollage and collage at the same time.»
Not exact matches
Bradford mentions his beginnings as a «beauty operator» in his mother's
hair salon where he painted signs and being inspired by discarded billboards and posters he finds in the Leimert Park
neighborhood of his studio.