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Article: Glenn Ligon at Max Protetch.(New York, New York)(Review of Exhibitions)(Brief Article)
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- February 1, 1996
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Glenn Ligon's recent exhibition comprised nine deceptively simple works. Like a tabloid TV show, they expose a secret world of interracial gay sex, beginning with a teenager's secret cache of porno magazines and ending with evocations of Jeffrey Dahmer's cannibalism.
A member of a new generation of black artists, Ligon has been making politically charged paintings and installations for several years. But he has done nothing previously as explicit as his new work, which evokes the difficulties of growing up black and gay in middle-class America. At Protetch the artist presented slightly tacky bedroom and living room furnishings from the 1970s--burnt orange plush ...