Johnson, Rashid | Anxious Man, 2017/2021 — available on Composition Gallery

Not signed. Series: Anxious man

On a glossy white ceramic plate, Johnson scrawls an Anxious Man face in dense black: two whirlpool eyes, a vertical stripe nose and a wide hatched mouth, surrounded by splatter and gestural marks. The Anxious Men series, with its directness and raw emotion, has become one of the most resonant black-cultural images in contemporary American art. Glazed plate from the 2017/2021 edition. To acquire one of Johnson's Anxious Man plates is to bring home a powerful, intimately scaled emblem of one of the most important voices of contemporary Black American art.

Rashid Johnson (United States, 1977) is an American artist known for his conceptual post-black art. His diverse body of work includes photography, painting, sculpture, and installations that explore themes of African American identity, history, and culture. Johnson often incorporates materials like shea butter, black soap, and wax, infusing his pieces with symbolic meaning.

Rashid Johnson

Anxious Man, 2017/2021

Name: Anxious Man, 2017/2021
SKU: 17507

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Sculpture / Object

Sculpture / ObjectA sculpture is a three-dimension object made using any one of the basic sculpting processes. These include carving, casting, constructing or modeling. Carving materials may be bone, ivory, stone or wood. Modeling and casting use clay or wax, while constructions glue materials together.

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Plate

PlateA plate is a broad, primarily flat vessel used for serving food, but it can also serve ceremonial or decorative purposes. Plates are typically circular, though they can be any shape and made from various water-resistant materials. Most plates have raised edges, either by curving upward or featuring a wider lip. Vessels without a raised edge or with a more rounded profile are often considered bowls or dishes, while very large, plate-shaped vessels might also be classified as dishes.

Edition

Edition of 175

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The way that light hits objects, I think, is one of the more important things that sculpture and photography share.
- Rashid Johnson

American conceptual post-black artist Rashid Johnson (1977) is a painter, photographer, filmmaker, and sculptor known for his photography and artistic productions that combine natural and spiritual sciences to augment black history. His early work was distinguished by a unique photo-printing process to achieve a painterly texture to prints, with The New York Times describing some of his black-and-white photography as “spectacularly rich.” As a photography major, Johnson earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Columbia College Chicago and a Master of Fine Arts from School of the Art Institute of Chicago, after which he taught in the Lower East Side of New York City at Pratt Institute. Sometimes referred to as an artist-magician, Johnson creates and disseminates societal and cultural norms and expectations as they relate to the black experience. Much of his mixed-media work plays with concepts of race through contradiction and symbolism of coded references. Having earned national acclaim, Johnson’s work is held in some of the world’s leading art museums.

Artwork by Marcel Duchamp

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