Sentences with phrase «paintings in the hair salon»

Finding materials for his paintings in the hair salon, Home Depot and the streets of Los Angeles, Bradford renews the traditions of abstract painting, demonstrating that freedom from socially prescribed representation is profoundly meaningful in the hands of a black artist.

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Michelle Gonzalez, a hairstylist who specializes in color and hair painting at Mimi's Salon in Belmar, New Jersey, encourages her clients to think of this hot hue as the winterized version of rose gold.

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.

The first room creates a physical experience, pushing the view to the periphery with an imposing bulbous sculpture, while the second creates safe places for the artist as a young boy, evoking Bradford's mother's hair salon in large paintings created from purple - black end papers used for permanent waves and a paper sculpture representing Medusa's head as a hiding place.

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.»

• Track record of success in cutting and styling clients» hairs by following current trends in hair fashion • Demonstrated ability to install artificial hair extensions and perform balayage painting treatments • Effectively advises clients on minor problems with hair and scalp by ensuring that they are prescribed safe OTC products • Talented in determining clients» hair styling needs by conferring and interviewing them • Able to wash and condition hair according to each client's specific hair types • Hands - on experience in applying perming or straightening products by following safe application methods • Competent at analyzing clients» hair and facial features and suggest suitable hair styles and cuts • Special talent for providing additional therapeutic services such as head and scalp massages, using therapy oils and blends • Competent at recommending products to use on hair such as shampoos, conditioners and oils and explaining the use of cosmetics and lotions • Documented success in up - selling of salon products to meet the salon's retail goals