Glenn Ligon, Debris Field/Notes for a Poem on the Third World/Soleil Nègre, installation view at Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris (2018). Photo: Florian Kleinefenn
Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles, USA
American artist Glenn Ligon (b.1960) is best known for his landmark text-based paintings, made since the late 1980s, which draw on the influential writings and speech of 20th-century cultural figures including Jean Genet, Zora Neale Hurston, Jesse Jackson, and Richard Pryor. 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.
The exhibition is curated by the artist.
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