The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 18, 2024
Untitled Anxious Crowd
2018
(American, b. 1977)
printer
(American)
publisher
Image: 50.5 x 61.3 cm (19 7/8 x 24 1/8 in.)
© Rashid Johnson
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.”- 2018-2020(Hauser & Wirth, New York, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)2020-Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Peters, Emily J. and Salsbury, Britany. “Rashid Johnson: A set of deeply personal etchings explore the artist’s own anxiety and in turn speak more broadly to the experiences of Black men in America.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 60, no. 4 (Fall 2020): 18-19. Reproduced: P. 18; Mentioned: P. 18-19.
- New Narratives: Contemporary Works on Paper. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 19, 2023-April 14, 2024).
- {{cite web|title=Untitled Anxious Crowd|url=false|author=Rashid Johnson, Jennifer Melby, Hauser & Wirth, Inc.|year=2018|access-date=18 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}
Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2020.78