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Glenn Ligon. Glenn Ligon (b. 1960) is an artist living and working in New York. 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. He earned his BA from Wesleyan University (1982) and ...
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Glenn Ligon addresses issues of racial and sexual identity in his paintings, photographs, and conceptual projects. Prisoner of Love #1, #2, and #3 (all 1992) belong to an early body of work in which black text is stenciled on white ground with increasing intensity and depth. The first canvas repeats the statement “We are the ink that gives the white page a meaning,” implying a collective ...
14 de nov. de 2016 · Glenn Ligon has 34 works online. There are 17,773 drawings online. Installation views We have identified these works in the following photos from our exhibition history. Open Ends. Sep 28, 2000–Mar 4, 2001. 2 other works identified. Here Is Every. Four Decades of ...
Glenn Ligon: AMERICA, created in close collaboration with the artist, surveys twenty-five years of Ligon's art, including paintings, sculptural installations, prints, and drawings. Essays examine his working methods in depth and situate his output within a broad cultural context, while lavish new photography highlights the formal subtlety of his art.
Glenn Ligon’s contributions to the Biennial pay tribute to US author and activist James Baldwin’s life in Istanbul. One of the works Ligon will present is Sedat Pakay’s filmic portrait of Baldwin in Istanbul, From Another Place, which the artist has subtitled in Turkish for the first time.In two related videos, the artist pairs crowd scenes shot in Taksim Square with music from ...
21 de jul. de 2019 · Glenn Ligon (b. 1960) lives and works in New York. His solo exhibitions include Camden Arts Centre, London (2014-15); Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2011); The Power Plant, Toronto (2005); The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (2001); Kunstverein, Munich (2001); Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2000); and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia (1998).
