RASHID JOHNSON 'Bruise Painting Body & Soul' 2021 Exhib Poster Black & Blue NEW!

Description: RASHID JOHNSON (b. 1977, Chicago, IL), 'Bruise Painting "Body and Soul" ', 2021 Rashid Johnson: Black and Blue Exhibition Poster, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Rare original offset lithograph exhibition poster produced on the occasion of the artist's David Kordansky Gallery exhibition, 'Rashid Johnson: Black and Blue' in Los Angeles, CA, September 18 - October 30, 2021. Dimensions: 24" x 32" (61 x 81.5 cm) sheet. BRAND NEW (never framed or displayed). Rashid Johnson: Black and Blue, a major exhibition by Rashid Johnson featuring new bodies of work, including paintings, bronze sculptures, works on paper, and the debut of a new 35mm film. In Black and Blue, a group of new canvases that Johnson has titled “Bruise Paintings” represent a further development of themes present in his “Anxious Red Paintings.” Made during the pandemic, the “Anxious Red Paintings” embodied the anxiety, isolation, and loss felt by many over the last two years. The “Bruise Paintings” fill the entirety of the North Gallery and are rendered in deep blue oil paint; the color is spread and layered across the oil-coated linen surfaces so that it takes on a range of blues, from light blue to almost black. The paintings conjure the feelings of aftermath, reckoning, and healing, with half-geometric, half-human faces arranged in expressive, viscous fields of line and color. They also constitute one of several components of the show that draw upon the mood and lyrics of the Fats Waller jazz standard “Black and Blue.” Made popular in a key recording by Louis Armstrong, the song also plays an important role in Ralph Ellison’s novel Invisible Man. If the paintings are, on the one hand, indicative of the immediate impacts of violent societal change, on the other, they register a perennial state of affairs, and carry with them a surprising combination of shock, resignation, uncertainty, and poetry. Rashid Johnson is an American artist who produces conceptual post-black art. Johnson first received critical attention in 2001 at the age of 24, when his work was included in Freestyle (2001) curated by Thelma Golden at the Studio Museum in Harlem, NY. He studied at Columbia College Chicago and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and his work has been exhibited around the world. Johnson is known for several bodies of work in different media, including photographic works; airbrush paintings on mirrored tile; his "Bruise Paintings" and "Surrender Paintings" series. In addition to photography, Johnson makes audio installations, video, and sculpture. Johnson is known for both his unusual artistic productions and for his process of combining various aspects of science with black history. PLEASE SEE MY OTHER AUCTIONS BY CLICKING MY StoreICON ABOVE Pay me securely with any major credit card through PayPal!

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