A basic material he used for work became Mark Bradford’s signature artistic material DAVID TAFFET | Senior Staff Writertaffet@dallasvoice.com Mark Bradford, currently featured in an exhibit at The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, uses end papers from his mother’s beauty salon as the element to create mixed media collages of geometric design.
The exhibit, End Papers, focuses on a theme the gay artist has returned to repeatedly over the last 20 years of his career while expanding his mixed media to social papers — using posters and other pieces in his work as social commentary.
But this exhibit sticks to his use of the element that originally inspired his work — the end paper that protects hair from burning while using curlers to create