Mark Bradford: End Papers at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth

Mark Bradford: End Papers

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth Through January 10, 2021

MMark Bradford: End Papers, on view sheets of translucent paper protect at the Modern Art Museum of Fort hair from overheating in the process Worth through January 10, 2021, of using curlers to create permanent focuses on the key material and funwaves. Part painting and part collage, damental motif the artist employed the colored End Paper works feature early in his career and has returned grids with various hues that pulsate to periodically over the past two deacross the surface. Bradford has said, cades: end papers. “I learned my own way of constructBradford learned to use end papers ing paintings through the End Paas a hairdresser in his mother’s beauty pers—how to create space, how to use salon in Los Angeles. These small color. And how to provide a new kind

White Girl, 2002. Mixed media on canvas. 95 × 145 inches. Collection of Jim and Irene Karp. © Mark Bradford

of content. They were the beginning for me.”

Bradford’s End Paper works not only allowed him to make beautiful abstract paintings but inspired the artist’s use of “social papers” that related to his biography and his neighborhood. From the End Papers, Bradford began incorporating merchant posters, broadsides, and even billboards he found in downtown Los Angeles. The exhibition includes approximately 35 major End Paper works drawn from private and public collections and new work created for this presentation. Mark Bradford: End Papers is curated by Michael Auping, former chief curator of the Modern.

On a clear day, I can usually see all the way to Watts, 2001. Mixed media on canvas. 72 × 84 inches. The Bluff Collection. © Mark Bradford

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Juice, 2003. Mixed media on canvas. 72 × 84 inches. Private Collection. © Mark Bradford. Photo: Charles White