Rashid Johnson “Anxious Men”
The Drawing Center
[Image: Rashid Johnson "Untitled Anxious Men" (2015) White ceramic tile, black soap, wax, 47 1/2 x 34 1/2 x 2 in. © Rashid Johnson, Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. Photo by Martin Parsekian.]
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Rashid Johnson: Anxious Men, Johnson will create a site-specific installation for the Drawing Room gallery. 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 in the late seventies and eighties and the Afro-centric values of his parents. 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.
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from October 02, 2015 to December 20, 2015
Opening Reception on 2015-10-01 from 18:00 to 20:00