Research Catalog

Title

Mark Bradford : end papers / curated by Michael Auping.

Author

Bradford, Mark, 1961-

Publication

• Fort Worth, TX : Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth ; Munich ; London ; New York : DelMonico Books, Prestel, 2020.
• ©2020

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Details

Additional Authors

• Auping, Michael
• Price, Marla
• Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, host institution.

Description

124 pages : chiefly illustrations (chiefly color); 30 x 33 cm

Summary

Drawing on the diverse cultural and geographic makeup of his South Los Angeles community, Mark Bradford is known for his wall-size collages and installations from scavenged materials. These artworks are responses to the impromptu networks- underground economies, migrant communities, or popular appropriation of abandoned public space-that emerge within a city. This book focuses on some of Bradford's earliest works which take the form of subtle abstract collages made from end papers, small translucent paper that protects hair from overheating, which he learned to use while working as a hairdresser in his mother's salon. Part painting and part collage, the coloured End Papers works feature grids that contain various hues that pulsate across the surface. Begun when he was a student at the California Institute of Art in the 1990s, the End Paper paintings were the beginning of his process of combining paper and paint. Bradford said recently, "I learned my own way of constructing paintings through the End Papers-how to create space, how to use colour. And how to provide a new kind of content. They were the beginning for me." The exhibition and book examine the use of end papers as a fundamental motif in Bradford's career and how he has returned to it in the past two decades. The essay by Auping discusses how these early works led to his use of merchant's posters, broadsides, and even billboards he found in downtown Los Angeles to make his paintings.00Exhibition: Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, USA (08.03.- 09.08.2020).

Uniform Title

Works. Selections

Alternative Title

• Works.
• End papers

Subjects

• African American painting
• Collage, American
• Painting, Abstract
• Bradford, Mark, 1961-
• Exhibition catalogs
• Bradford, Mark, 1961- > Exhibitions
• African American painting > 21st century > Exhibitions
• Collage, American > 21st century > Exhibitions
• Painting, Abstract > 21st century > Exhibitions
• 2000-2099

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

Note

• Exhibited: "Mark Bradford: End Papers," Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth, March 8-August 9, 2020.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 116-120).

Contents

Foreword / Marla Price -- Working papers / Michael Auping -- Plates -- Jheri now, curl later : an interview / with Mark Bradford -- Plates -- Works in the exhibition -- Biography & bibliography.

Call Number

Sc+ F 22-12

ISBN

• 9783791359724
• 379135972X

LCCN

2019953773

OCLC

1140940459

Author

Bradford, Mark, 1961- artist.

Title

Mark Bradford : end papers / curated by Michael Auping.

Publisher

Fort Worth, TX : Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth ; Munich ; London ; New York : DelMonico Books, Prestel, 2020.

Copyright Date

©2020

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 116-120).

Chronological Term

2000-2099

Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

Auping, Michael, author, curator.

Price, Marla, writer of foreword.

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, host institution.

Research Call Number

Sc+ F 22-12

JQG 20-668