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Here, Ligon extracts a passage from Ralph Ellison’s 1952 novel Invisible Man, a contemporaneous story of a young African American growing up in the South. “I am an invisible man,” it begins. “I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone . . . and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people ...
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Glenn Ligon (b. 1960, lives and works in New York) is an American artist whose work explores notions of abstraction and the legibility of language. He works across a wide range of media including painting, neon, printmaking, photography, installation, sculpture, and video.
Born in 1960, Glenn Ligon is an artist living and working in New York. He received a Bachelor of Arts from Wesleyan University and attended the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. Throughout his career, Ligon has pursued an incisive exploration of American history, literature, and society across bodies of work that build critically on the legacies of modern painting and conceptual art.
2 de jun. de 2017 · Now an Ellsworth Kelly painting, “Blue Black” (2000), has become the departure point for Mr. Ligon’s latest project. At the Pulitzer Arts Foundation in St. Louis, where the 28-foot-tall ...
Below, Bárbara Borges de Campos reflects on the work of the conceptual artist Glenn Ligon (1960-). On the eve of his assassination on 4 April 1968 Martin Luther King was in Memphis supporting sanitation workers on strike. Later, the employees’ protest would be immortalised by their signs stating: “I am a man”.
28 de abr. de 2012 · Glenn Ligon’s paintings and sculptures examine cultural and social identity through found sources—literature, Afrocentric coloring books, photographs—to reveal the ways in which the history of slavery, the civil rights movement, and sexual politics inform our understanding of American society.Ligon appropriates texts from a variety of literary writers including Walt Whitman, Zora Neal ...
