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PUBLISHER
The Drawing Center

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 6 x 9 in. / 51 pgs / 17 color.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date
Out of stock indefinitely

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D.A.P. Exclusive
Catalog: FALL 2016 p. 157   

PRODUCT DETAILS
ISBN 9780942324938 FLAT40
List Price: $20.00 CDN $27.95 GBP £17.50

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THE DRAWING CENTER

Rashid Johnson: Anxious Men

Text by Claire Gilman, Jeremy Sigler, Cheryl Johnson-Odim.

Universally accessible and employing common visual tropes such as the monochrome and the grid, Johnson's work is also self-referential, making specific allusion to his upbringing in Chicago and the Afro-centric values of his parents. In Rashid Johnson: Anxious Men, the artist creates a site-specific installation in the Drawing Room gallery. The core of the exhibition is a new series of black-soap-and-wax-on-tile portraits that Johnson calls his “anxious men.” Executed by digging into a waxy surface, they enact a kind of drawing through erasure and represent the first time Johnson has worked figuratively outside of photography or film, and on such a small scale. Whereas Johnson’s previous work has taken a more cerebral approach to questions of race and political identity, the drawn portraits confront the viewer with a visceral immediacy. The portraits are set within a multi-sensory environment that includes wallpaper featuring a photograph of the artist’s father from the year Johnson was born, and an audio sound track comprised of Melvin Van Peebles’s “Love, That’s America,” a song that originally appeared in Peebles’s 1970 film Watermelon Man and that was recently pressed into service by the Occupy Wall Street movement. In this way, the exhibition, documented in this volume, creates an immersive space that implicates not only the artist but also the viewer in its interrogation of selfhood and identity.
Rashid Johnson: Anxious Men

STATUS: Out of stock indefinitely.

RASHID JOHNSON MONOGRAPHS + ARTIST'S BOOKS

Cheryl Johnson-Odim & Rashid Johnson: Heart-Turned-Inside-Out Poems

CHERYL JOHNSON-ODIM & RASHID JOHNSON: HEART-TURNED-INSIDE-OUT POEMS

Hauser & Wirth Publishers

ISBN: 9783906915814
USD $45.00
| CAN $65

Pub Date: 2/27/2024
Active | In stock


Rashid Johnson: The Hikers

RASHID JOHNSON: THE HIKERS

Hauser & Wirth Publishers/Aspen Art Press

ISBN: 9780934324915
USD $85.00
| CAN $119

Pub Date: 5/25/2021
Active | In stock