Drawing Papers 123
Rashid Johnson: Anxious Men
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.
- Year:
- 2015
- Contributors:
- Jeremy Sigler, Cheryl Johnson-Odim
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Size:
- 6 x 9 inches
- Pages:
- 51
- Publisher:
- The Drawing Center
$20
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