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Glenn Ligon

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Glenn Ligon (Born 1960) is active/lives in New York.  Glenn Ligon is known for Text-based painting, allegory, self-portrait.

Brooklyn-based artist, Glenn Ligon is known for his text-filled explorations of history, especially African American history and most recently of interracial gay sex, concerning the social, cultural, and political aspects. Using language, he has said of his work that he wants to "make language into a physical thing, something that has real weight and force to it."

Ligon's paintings feature a carefully selected phrase of or sentence taken from literary sources such as James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, Mary Shelley and Jean Genet. Evocative quotes by these authors are hand stenciled onto the canvas or printing plate repeatedly, yielding surfaces comprised of line after line of the chosen words, some legible and others less so.

Two of his pieces are Twin and Colonial. Twin"consists of a trundle bed littered with porn magazines showing black and interracial gay sex; tucked under the bed is the 1992 Newsweek issue with Jeffrey Dahmer on the cover.
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9 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Glenn Ligon
Magazine Article Date Author Color
Art in America Ligon's Color Theory March 2007 Nichols, Matthew Guy Yes
ARTFORUM Light It Up, or How Glenn Ligon Got Over May 2006 Meyer, Richard Yes
Art & Auction In the Studio: Glenn Ligon January 2006 Kley, Elizabeth Yes
ARTFORUM Summer Preview 2005 May 2005 ArtForum Editors Yes
Art in America Review of Exhibitions May 2004 Editors, Art in America Yes
ARTnews The Rise of African American Art September 2003 Kinsella, Eileen Yes
ARTFORUM Openings October 2001 Joselit, David Yes
Art-Talk In the Museums December 1997 Editors, Art Talk No
Art in America Review of Exhibitions February 1996 Editors, Art in America Yes
8 Book References for Glenn Ligon
Year Author Title Pages Color
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2004 McGowan, Alison C (Editor) Who's Who in American Art, 2004 2003 - 2004 (25th Edition) 1512 No
1998 Taha, Halima Collecting African American Art Works on Paper and Canvas 270 Yes
1997 Powell, Richard J Black Art and Culture in the 20th Century 256 Yes
1996 Storr, Robert/Tom Wolf Community of Creativity A Century of MacDowell Colony Artists
(Exhibition catalog)		 103 Yes
1993 Gardner, James Culture or Trash? A Provocative View of Contemporary Painting (etc) 227 No
1992 Rose, Bernice Allegories of Modernism Contemporary Drawing
(Exhibition catalog)		 128 Yes
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