Untitled Anxious Man

2018

Hauser & Wirth, Inc.

Culture

America

Medium

softground etching

Support

Somerset Velvet wove paper

Measurements

Matted: 86.5 x 61.1 x 0.3 cm (34 1/16 x 24 1/16 x 1/8 in.); Image: 60.5 x 50.5 cm (23 13/16 x 19 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Dr. Gerard and Phyllis Seltzer Fund 2020.77

This artwork is known to be under copyright.

Location

Not on view

Did You Know?

Rashid Johnson created this print by making repetitive, jagged marks that echoed his subject’s mood into the waxy surface of a softground etching plate.

Description

Contemporary artist Rashid Johnson draws on the traditions of painting and conceptual art to explore the lived experiences of African American men. This print belongs to a series that began as an exploration of the artist’s own anxieties but grew to express the experiences of young black men during a time marked by police violence and mass incarceration. In the artist’s words, “I . . . realiz[ed] that my anxiety was not mine exclusively.”