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Glenn Ligon opens a Whitney retrospective
Mar 07, 2011 10:32 am
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="200" caption="Hudson p/t resident Glenn Ligon, as seen in a self-portrait, opens a mid-career retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art on March 10."]
[/caption]Part-time Hudson resident Glenn Ligon, who also keeps a studio and home in Brooklyn, will be the focus of a mid-career retrospective, "Glenn Ligon: America," that opens this Thursday, March 10 at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City for a three month run through June 5. Ligon, who works with text and concept in his paintings, sculptures, photographs, videoa and multi-media works, has described his own focus as being on what he calls "outsiderness." "Artists are disturbers of the peace," he has been quoted as saying of his work. "How does one break down the barrier between people? It's a global question, and it probably reflects what I've been trying to do -- reach out more." Ligon, 51, has been showing in major worldwide institutions since the early 1990s. In 2009, President Barack Obama added Ligon's 1992 "Black Like Me No. 2" to the White House collection. In 2010, he won a United States Artists Fellow award.
[/caption]Part-time Hudson resident Glenn Ligon, who also keeps a studio and home in Brooklyn, will be the focus of a mid-career retrospective, "Glenn Ligon: America," that opens this Thursday, March 10 at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City for a three month run through June 5. Ligon, who works with text and concept in his paintings, sculptures, photographs, videoa and multi-media works, has described his own focus as being on what he calls "outsiderness." "Artists are disturbers of the peace," he has been quoted as saying of his work. "How does one break down the barrier between people? It's a global question, and it probably reflects what I've been trying to do -- reach out more." Ligon, 51, has been showing in major worldwide institutions since the early 1990s. In 2009, President Barack Obama added Ligon's 1992 "Black Like Me No. 2" to the White House collection. In 2010, he won a United States Artists Fellow award.