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Ligon's color theory: emotionally fraught passages in the cultural construction of race and gender are explored throughout Glenn Ligon's work, the subject of a traveling survey.
Art in America; Mar 1, 2007; ; 700+ Words In one sense, Glenn Ligon is a known entity. Anyone who has paid...1998. Yet despite this high profile, Ligon can also seem an elusive artist. After...currently traveling internationally. "Glenn Ligon: Some Changes" is co-curated by...
Black artist Glenn Ligon explores race issues in Wexner exhibit
Call & Post; Mar 8, 2007; ; 700+ Words Black artist Glenn Ligon explores race issues in Wexner exhibit The internationally touring exhibit "Glenn Ligon: Some Changes," featuring more than...painting by African-American artist Glenn Ligon is based on a child's drawing about...
Glenn Ligon at D'Amelio Terras.(New York)
Art in America; May 1, 2004; ; 700+ Words Glenn Ligon is best known for his appropriations...picture of a budding plant that Ligon drew when he was 10 years...stating, for example, that "Glenn often has expressed objections...artifacts from an archive. Ligon here aligns himself with the...
SELF-POTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG BLACK MAN; In His New Hirshhorn Show, Glenn Ligon Explores Slavery's Painful Past to Understand His Own
The Washington Post; Nov 14, 1993; ; 700+ Words ...year-old New Yorker Glenn Ligon's provocative show...history appear often in Ligon's art, most of which...white society. "But Glenn is also looking at how...Uncommon Sufferings of Glenn Ligon, a colored man, who...
Glenn Ligon
Artforum; Jan 1, 2008; ; 700+ Words LOS ANGELES Glenn Ligon REGEN PROJECTS II That Glenn Ligon's most recent paintings are so seductive is as disconcerting as it is revealing. Thirty-three of the thirty-six radiant textbased paintings in his recent show, from the series...
Glenn Ligon: Regen Projects II.
Artforum International; Jan 1, 2008; ; 700+ Words That Glenn Ligon's most recent paintings are so seductive...to foreground otherwise taboo subjects. Ligon, for his part, sidelines humor in favor...explosively funny--are captured faithfully in Ligon's paintings, determining the layout...
Unusual suspects: Coloring: New Work By Glenn Ligon / Glenn Ligon: Stranger
Black Issues Book Review; Jul 1, 2001; ; 612 Words Coloring: New Work by Glenn Ligon; Glenn Ligon; Stranger Essays by Olukemi Ilesanmi, Wayne Koestenbaum Walker Art Center, March 2001 ISBN 0-935-64071-1 Glenn Ligon, Thelma Golden, Hilton Als The Studio Museum in Harlem, February 2001...
Glenn Ligon: Stranger.(Review)(Brief Article)
Black Issues Book Review; Jul 1, 2001; ; 675 Words Glenn Ligon: Stranger Glenn Ligon, Thelma Golden, Hilton Als The Studio Museum in Harlem, February...ISBN: 0-942-94919-6 Interested in signs & symbols, Glenn Ligon is a semiotician with a paintbrush. With his reproductions of...
Glenn Ligon doesn't make work for easy reading. Whether they're quotes on canvas or a film piece modeled on Uncle Tom's Cabin, his tricky translations are about getting lost and getting found.(Interview)
Interview; Jun 1, 2009; ; 700+ Words IN SO MANY WAYS, GLENN LIGON'S ART PRODUCTIONS are like illuminated...Thomas Edison's studio in 1903. Ligon asked experimental jazz musician Jason...versus, say, working for UPS? GLENN LIGON: You know, it took a long time to...
GLENN LIGON.(Brief Article)
Artforum International; Oct 1, 2001; ; 700+ Words ...Jasper Johns's early work, but Glenn Ligon's brightly colored new paintings...transcribing the noise of the culture. Ligon's new paintings, likewise, combine...Warhol and Basquiat? The trick up Ligon's sleeve is that even his most...
Glenn Ligon.(Interview)
C: International Contemporary Art; Sep 22, 2005; ; 700+ Words ...African-American artist Glenn Ligon, asking questions, the...interview, Phillip and Ligon discuss the artist's...classroom and the home. Ligon shifts the way iconographic...male life in America. LP Glenn, your work centres the...
GLENN LIGON
Artforum; Mar 1, 2004; ; 700+ Words GLENN LIGON D'AMELIO TERRAS Since the...perhaps it's no surprise that Glenn Ligon, whose work has been rooted...each testifying to a young Glenn's status as talented but...exhaust things," we hear Ligon confess presciently at one...
Coloring: New Work by Glenn Ligon.(Review)(Brief Article)
Black Issues Book Review; Jul 1, 2001; ; 679 Words Coloring: New Work by Glenn Ligon Essays by Olukemi Ilesanmi, Wayne Koestenbaum Walker...935-64071-1 Interested in signs & symbols, Glenn Ligon is a semiotician with a paintbrush. With his reproductions...
Light it up, or how Glenn Ligon got over.(Cover story)
Artforum International; May 1, 2006; ; 700+ Words ...opening of the survey exhibit "Glenn Ligon: Some Changes"--but virtually...the first, to my knowledge, of Ligon's career). In typewriter-like...socializing in the sun. Inside is Glenn Ligon's light--soft wattage, high...
Light It Up, or How Glenn Ligon Got Over
Artforum; May 1, 2006; ; 700+ Words ...opening of the survey exhibit "Glenn Ligon: Some Changes"-but virtually...the first, to my knowledge, of Ligon's career). In typewriter-like...socializing in the sun. Inside is Glenn Ligon's light-soft wattage, high...
Glenn Ligon: d'Amelio Terras.(New York)
Artforum International; Mar 1, 2004; ; 700+ Words ...it's no surprise that Glenn Ligon, whose work has been rooted...incident, we learn, threw Ligon into a psychic spin that...each testifying to a young Glenn's status as talented...exhaust things," we hear Ligon confess presciently at...
Glenn Ligon at Max Protetch.(New York, New York)(Review of Exhibitions)(Brief Article)
Art in America; Feb 1, 1996; ; 700+ Words Glenn Ligon's recent exhibition comprised nine deceptively...member of a new generation of black artists, Ligon has been making politically charged paintings...images become emblems of familial pressure. Ligon explores the myth of the family further...
A MOMENT WITH: GLENN LIGON, ARTIST.(Life and Arts)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA); Apr 9, 2003; 599 Words Appearing tonight at 7 at the Seattle Art Museum, New York artist Glenn Ligon follows his friend, Studio Museum of Harlem curator Thelma Golden, who spoke there last week. During her talk, she credited...
I am a man: a body of work.(Glenn Ligon)(Interview)
Art Monthly; Jun 1, 2008; ; 700+ Words ...ended. Did you feel a mission almost to reinstate history, or the importance of histories? [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Glenn Ligon: Well, in the beginning my text work was about, as Wayne said in the quote, the idea of bringing the past to the...
My Felix: Glenn Ligon on Felix Gonzalez-Torres.(BOOKS)(Felix Gonzalez-Torres)(Book review)
Artforum International; Jun 22, 2007; ; 700+ Words FELIX GONZALEZ-TORRES, EDITED BY JULIE AULT. NEW YORK: STEIDLDANGIN, 2006. 410 PAGES. $85. IN 1996, the year Felix Gonzalez-Torres died, I made a version of his "Untitled" (Perfect Lovers), 1987-90, by hanging two identical battery-operated clocks side by side on my living-room wall. I had always
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