New work by glenn ligon was on view at the walker in the fall 2000. Layers of meaning, glenn ligon joel shapiro, coloring books, artist websites. Glenn ligons 19992000 walker artist residency, the subject of a new presentation in the best buy aperture, provided the inspiration for the artists influential coloring series. Born and raised in the bronx, glenn ligon grew up taking art classes at the metropolitan museum of art while learning about identity. All transactions will be settled by credit card at the conclusion of the auction. Ligon appropriates texts from a variety of literary writers including walt whitman, zora neal. Glenn ligon is an american conceptual artist known for his textbased paintings, prints, and sculptures.
Ligon s paintings and sculptures examine cultural and social identity through found sourcesliterature, afrocentric coloring books, photographsto reveal the ways in which the history of slavery, the civil rights movement, and sexual. Phillips, new york, contemporary art day, 16 may 2014, lot 321 acquired directly from the above by the present owner exhibited philadelphia, fabric workshop and museum. Glenn ligon is known for textbased painting, allegory, selfportrait. Glenn ligon s painting was produced through a set of strategies the artist has employed since the late 1980s that have established him as one of the most important of his generation. View a wide variety of artworks by glenn ligon, now available for sale on artnet auctions. The ligon company specializes in commercial investments, brokerage and auctions. Ligon appropriates passages from a text, or in this case an image from a coloring book, and pushes the legibility of that image or text to a level of abstraction. Glenn ligon, who gained prominence in the early 1990s along with a generation of artists including gary simmons and lorna simpson, is a conceptual artist who. See available paintings, prints and multiples, and works on paper for sale and learn about the artist. He has had numerous gallery and museum exhibitions, including at the san francisco museum of modern art and at the brooklyn museum of art. For his coloring series 2000, the artist asked children to color pages from black powerthemed coloring books of the 1970s and then silkscreened the results. The auction lot references i am somebody, a 1950s poem by rev. Glenn ligon is an american conceptual artist whose work explores race, language, desire, and identity.
Glenn ligon born 1960, pronounced liegone is an american conceptual artist whose work explores race, language, desire, sexuality, and identity. Boston, massachusetts institute of technology list visual arts center, glenn ligon. Based in new york city, ligon engages in intertextuality with other works from the visual arts, literature, and history, as well as his own life. In addition to we need to wake up cause thats what time it is, the alreadyacclaimed show of ligons work in the gallerys bushwick location. We will be implementing the following changes to check out and pick up procedures.
He is best known for his paintings incorporating texts by influential cultural figures ranging from writers james baldwin, zora neale hurston, and jean genet to comedian richard pryor. Glenn ligon is one of the preeminent members of a generation of american artists who came to prominence in the late 1980s with conceptuallybased paintings, photographs and textoriented works concerning the social, linguistic and political constructions of race, gender and sexuality. If every lot in a catalogue is guaranteed, the conditions of sale will so. Glenn ligon reframes history in the art of america new york artist glenn ligon is perhaps best known for the textbased paintings he started making in the 80s. He engages in intertextuality with other works from the visual arts, literature, and history, as well as his own life. Glenn ligon glenn ligon was born in the bronx, new york, in ligon s paintings and sculptures examine cultural and social identity through found sourcesliterature, afrocentric coloring books, photographsto reveal the ways in which the history. The many shades of glenn ligons blue black in a new exhibition, glenn ligon explores the idea of blue black as it manifests not only in black identity but also in american culture. Ligon s work has always been a form of quotation that invites comparison. He combines this formal art education and complex personal history to create emotionally charged works that. You will receive a receipt at the conclusion of the auction. Jane hammond, glenn ligon, justen ladda, philip taaffe, and william wegman.
Glenn ligons work has consistently invoked the power of language. Glenn ligon is a contemporary american visual artist who was born in 1960. Ligon s work considers the meaning and symbolism of words and images. Here are the instructions how to enable javascript in your web browser. View over 209 glenn ligon artworks sold at auction to research and compare prices. America, created in close collaboration with the artist, surveys twentyfive years of ligon s art, including paintings, sculptural installations, prints, and drawings. Filter for featured artists, price, media and more. In one work, a coloring book image of tubman is surrounded with a bright mosaiclike pattern reminiscent of the. Glenn ligon reframes history in the art of america. Glenn ligon, who gained prominence in the early 1990s along with a generation of artists including gary simmons and lorna simpson, is a conceptual artist who throughout his career has pursued an incisive exploration of american history, literature, and society. Glenn ligon, detail of untitled i was somebody, 1990, 2003. For full functionality of this site it is necessary to enable javascript. Subscribe to access price results for 150000 different artists.
The sheet is hinged intermittently to the backing board. Assassinated 50 years ago, malcolm xs powerful image and. Find an indepth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices. Skin tight, 1995 another example exhibited literature. Glenn ligon is an american conceptual artist whose work explores race, language, desire, sexuality. It is perhaps telling that the first piece in the exhibition glenn ligon. Payment for purchases may be made in or by a cash, b cashiers check or money order, c personal check with approved credit drawn on a u. America is the first comprehensive midcareer retrospective devoted to this pioneering new yorkbased artist. See more ideas about glenn ligon, glen ligon and art. Glenn ligon auction results artist auction records. Flipping through the catalogue before the auction with the observer. The coloring book pages i used were from afrocentric coloring books published by johnson publications among others in the late 1960s and. Many works by the artist have been sold at auction, including untitled i was somebody sold at sothebys new york contemporary art evening auction in 2014 for.
In works ligon made for the seminal series door paintings 199092. Drawing on rhetorical passages from writers who negotiated the prospects of being black in an oppressively white america, such as james baldwin, ralph ellison, zora neale hurston, and richard dyer, ligon s paintings bring the realities of racial. The artist project is an online series in which artists respond to works of art in the mets. Images glenn ligon texts author no reproduction without written permission. America, the most comprehensive exhibition of the artists work to date, is not one of the textbased paintings for which he is best known, but hands 1996, a massive canvas tacked to the wall of the exhibitions entrance with pushpins, bearing the image of outstretched. Auction results for artworks by glenn ligon artprice. Decoding glenn ligons most iconic commentary on race. Glenn ligon subscribers may view all 209 auction records for glenn ligon. With his first paintings at the start of the 1990s, glenn ligon ushered in a new era of radical philosophical and emotional investigation. Just as the seeming straightforwardness of ligon s work resists a superficial reading, the shows reasonably clear title evokes.
In notes on the margin of the black book 19911993, ligon reacts to robert. Glenn ligon explores questions of african american identity and queer sexuality in a variety of media. Click here to check the results of all of our completed auctions. Glenn ligon born 1960, pronounced liegone is an american conceptual artist whose work. Glenn ligon on the great bieri i love the idea that something so abstract can be so specific. Glenn ligon first became known in the late 1980s for his textbased paintings based on the political and racially charged writings of zora neale hurston, jesse jackson and richard pryor, among others. Various artists artists in residence the set of three prints in various media, on smooth wove papers, 2008, each signed in pencil on the reverse and from the edition of 35, published by the studio museum in harlem, new york largest sheet. In 1989, he mounted his first solo show, how it feels to be colored me, in brooklyn. The colour in the catalogue illustration is fairly accurate, although the.
Glenn ligon s paintings and sculptures examine cultural and social identity through found sourcesliterature, afrocentric coloring books, photographsto reveal the ways in which the history of slavery, the civil rights movement, and sexual politics inform our understanding of american society. Glenn ligon was born in the bronx, new york, in 1960. Coloring books 2000 about the project historical consciousness is similarly explored, though perhaps less successfully, in a gallery dedicated to coloring, a series executed by the artist during a residency at the walker art center in minneapolis in 2000. The coloring book project inspired his coloring series, in which he used the students drawings as the basis for a several paintings. He began making text paintings in the late 1980s, drawing on the insightful words of james baldwin, ralph ellison and zora neale hurston. Born and raised in the bronx, glenn ligon grew up taking art classes at the metropolitan museum of art while learning about identity politics through the racism and discrimination toward homosexuality that he encountered in new york. Encounters and collisions by glenn ligon english paperback book f see more like this coloring new work by glenn ligon 2001 walker art center sc like new halbreich new other. Auction results biography born and raised in the bronx, glenn ligon grew up taking art classes at the metropolitan museum of art while learning about identity politics through the racism and discrimination toward homosexuality that he encountered in new york. Glenn ligon is having a big februarythe american conceptual artist has not one but two exhibitions, in luhring augustines two new york locations. View auction details, art exhibitions and online catalogues. 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.
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