Glenn Ligon opens seventh exhibition at Regen Projects
The First Art Newspaper on the Net    Established in 1996 Saturday, December 14, 2024


Glenn Ligon opens seventh exhibition at Regen Projects
Glenn Ligon, Redacted #3, 2023. Oil stick and gesso on two canvases. Overall: 47 x 78 inches (119.4 x 198.1 cm). Each: 47 x 39.



LOS ANGELES, CA.- With DOUBLE NEGATIVE, Glenn Ligon’s seventh exhibition at Regen Projects, the artist points to the work and all the reading (and reads) he has already traced in essays like “Black Light: David Hammons and the Poetics of Emptiness,” an essay in seven segments that appeared in the September 2004 issue of Artforum—and artworks—particularly the paintings he has inscribed with passages from James Baldwin’s 1953 essay, “Stranger in the Village,” a series that began in 1996. Whereas Baldwin’s text has appeared in parts, passages, and selections in those earlier works, it unfolds here in full across eighteen panels coupled as nine diptychs, affording what Ligon describes as “the ground on which the painting is sited.”

As if to deny or redact what has already been disclosed, X’s appear across the nine diptychs presented here, in-line, atop the essay and then more freely. Complicating the legibility of Baldwin’s words, the X’s push toward abstraction and create new meanings. The X proffers the possibility of excision or negation. To cross or x out is a literal embodiment of a familiar colloquialism presented en masse. And yet, Ligon courts its capacity to create perhaps more than evacuate meaning—recalling various forms of asemic writing, concrete poetry, and artistic touchstones including Henri Michaux, Norman Lewis, and Cy Twombly. A fundamental mark, the X arises even when other writing systems are absent, as in the use of the X to denote a signature. It also suggests political action, alluding to figures such as Malcolm X, whose adopted surname replaced one tied to a legacy of white supremancy.

In a 2021 profile of the artist for T: The New York Times Style Magazine, Megan O’Grady observed that, “Ligon has in many ways inherited Baldwin’s mantle to become the foremost philosopher on race and identity in America.” Ligon’s pictures of Baldwin’s words are worth, and bear, repeating. Underscoring the difference ushered in by every mark made, Ligon’s DOUBLE NEGATIVE imagines a perpetual or generational conversation, a spectral call-and-response between Ligon, Baldwin, and innumerable others that exceeds language as we know it.

Glenn Ligon (b. 1960) earned a BA from Wesleyan University in 1982, and attended the Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program in 1985. He lives and works in New York, NY.

Solo exhibitions of Ligon’s work have been presented at Carré d’Art, Nîmes (2022); Camden Art 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 München (2001); Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2000–2001); and the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (1998). Ligon’s work was included in two editions of the Venice Biennale (1997 and 2015), documenta11 (2002), and two editions of the Whitney Biennial (1991 and 1993). His recent curatorial projects include Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America, New Museum, New York (2021); Blue Black, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis (2017); and Encounters and Collisions, Nottingham Contemporary, which traveled to Tate Liverpool (2015). A forthcoming curatorial project entitled All Over The Place: Glenn Ligon at the Fitzwilliam, will be presented at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, England in 2024.

Ligon was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2021, and has received numerous awards and recognitions for his work, including a Smithsonian Institution Archives of American Art Medal (2017); the Visual AIDS Vanguard Award (2016); the Studio Museum in Harlem’s Joyce Alexander Wein Artist Prize (2009); the Skowhegan Medal for Painting (2006); a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (2003); and a Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellowship (1997).

Monographs and publications on his work include Untitled (America)/Debris Field/Synecdoche/Notes for a Poem on the Third World (Regen Projects, 2019); Glenn Ligon: Debris Field/Notes for a Poem on the Third World/Soleil Nègre (Galerie Chantal Crousel and Is-Land edition, 2018); Blue Black (Pulitzer Arts Foundation, 2017); Glenn Ligon: A People on the Cover (Ridinghouse, 2015); Glenn Ligon: Encounters and Collisions (Tate Publishing, 2015); Glenn Ligon: AMERICA (Whitney Museum of American Art, 2011); Yourself in the World: Selected Writings and Interviews (Yale University Press, 2011); Glenn Ligon: Some Changes (The Power Plant, 2005); Stranger (Studio Museum in Harlem, 2001); Coloring: New Work by Glenn Ligon (Walker Art Center, 2001), and Glenn Ligon: Unbecoming (Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, 1998). A forthcoming publication is scheduled for release by Phaidon in 2024, along with Distinguishing Piss from Rain: Selected Writings and Interviews (Hauser & Wirth Publishers), also in 2024.

Ligon’s work is held in the permanent collections of museums worldwide including Art Institute of Chicago; The Broad, Los Angeles; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Dallas Museum of Art; Detroit Institute of Arts; Guggenheim Museum, New York; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Museum of Modern Art, New York; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Philadelphia Museum of Art; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; The Studio Museum in Harlem; Tate Modern, London; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, among others.










Today's News

November 10, 2023

Almine Rech presents The Echo of Picasso in New York

Picasso sells for $139.4 million, despite a sagging art market

The next Costume Institute fashion blockbuster is revealed

Rare diamonds and incredible jewelry from important estates headline Hindman sale

Edel Rodriguez isn't afraid to live with the consequences

Winter highlights at Bonhams Knightsbridge

Amid Criticism, a Museum Says It Must Sell Its Cézannes to Survive

Final installation at Frick Madison reunites two masterpieces by Giorgione and Giovanni Bellini after centuries apart

The Merchant House opens its 10th anniversary season

American art leads Shannon's Fall Fine Art auction

The Classics return to Bonhams

The Wadsworth Atheneum celebrates its collection of conceptual art with new exhibition

Glenn Ligon opens seventh exhibition at Regen Projects

'Watch Night' review: For spacious skies, for rancorous waves of hate

Domenico Spano, clothier of stars who found fame of his own, dies at 79

Nara Roesler New opens opens 'Daniel Senise: The Site of Images' curated by Luis Pérez-Oramas

James Cohan now represents Kaloki Nyamai

New Extended Reality Metaverse project by artist Ben Elliot

Striking actors and Hollywood studios agree to a deal

'Sleep No More' to close in January

Taking note as Dance Reflections takes a pause

The Complete Guide to Selecting the Best Online Betting Site for You

Upper Wisdom teeth extraction at Dentist in Marysville

Exploring Mostbet: A Comprehensive Guide to the Online Betting Platform

Boosting Accountability With Company Vehicle Tracking

Kratos Studios: The Revolutionary Game-Changer in Fitness

Download GBWhatsApp for Free 2023 WhatsApp GB Latest Version 2024

GBWhatsApp APK Download (Official) Latest Version 2023 (Updated)




Museums, Exhibits, Artists, Milestones, Digital Art, Architecture, Photography,
Photographers, Special Photos, Special Reports, Featured Stories, Auctions, Art Fairs,
Anecdotes, Art Quiz, Education, Mythology, 3D Images, Last Week, .

 



Founder:
Ignacio Villarreal
(1941 - 2019)
Editor & Publisher: Jose Villarreal
Art Director: Juan José Sepúlveda Ramírez
Writer: Ofelia Zurbia Betancourt

Attorneys
Truck Accident Attorneys
Accident Attorneys
Houston Dentist
Abogado de accidentes
สล็อต
สล็อตเว็บตรง
Motorcycle Accident Lawyer

Royalville Communications, Inc
produces:

ignaciovillarreal.org juncodelavega.com facundocabral-elfinal.org
Founder's Site. Hommage
to a Mexican poet.
Hommage
       

The First Art Newspaper on the Net. The Best Versions Of Ave Maria Song Junco de la Vega Site Ignacio Villarreal Site Parroquia Natividad del Señor
Tell a Friend
Dear User, please complete the form below in order to recommend the Artdaily newsletter to someone you know.
Please complete all fields marked *.
Sending Mail
Sending Successful