Multidisciplinary artist Rashid Johnson invokes such themes as the black experience in America, the dialogue between abstraction and figuration, and the relationship between art and personal identity. Accompanying the site-specific installation Rashid Johnson: Anxious Men, this publication features a series of black-soap-and-wax-on-tile portraits that Johnson calls “anxious men.” Whereas Johnson’s previous work takes a more conceptually-oriented approach to questions of race and political identity, the drawn portraits present with a visceral immediacy. The publication also features a curatorial essay and contributions by poet Jeremy Sigler and the artist’s mother, writer and historian Cheryl Johnson-Odim.

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