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Untitled Anxious Man

2018
(American, b. 1977)
(American)
America
softground etching
Support: Somerset Velvet wove paper
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.)
Dr. Gerard and Phyllis Seltzer Fund 2020.77
© Rashid Johnson
Location: not on view
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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.

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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.”
Black-inked print with frenzied, charcoal-like strokes creating and shading in a square head and neck with a rectangle mouth, two large oval eyes, and a small circle nose. The features have been drawn frenetically with zig-zag motions shading in the mouth and swirls the eyes. Scribbly loops overlay the entirety of the face and page.

Untitled Anxious Man

2018

Rashid Johnson, Jennifer Melby, Hauser & Wirth, Inc.

(American, b. 1977), (American)
America

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