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Glenn Ligon: AMERICA

Mar 10–Jun 5, 2011

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Glenn Ligon (b.1960), Mirror, 2002. Coal dust, printing ink, glue, gesso, and graphite on canvas, 82 5/8 × 55 1/8 in. (209.9 × 147.6 cm). Collection of Mellody Hobson © Glenn Ligon

Glenn Ligon (b.1960), Untitled (I Am a Man), 1988. Oil and enamel on canvas, 40 × 25 in. (101.6 × 63.5 cm). Collection of the artist © Glenn Ligon

Glenn Ligon (b.1960), Hands, 1996. Silkscreen ink and gesso on unstretched canvas, 82 × 144 in. (208.3 × 365.8 cm). Collection of Eileen Harris Norton © Glenn Ligon

Glenn Ligon (b.1960), Sun (Version 2) #1, 2001. Silkscreen ink, oil stick, and gesso on canvas, 48 × 36 in. (121.9 × 91.4 cm). Collection of Eileen Harris Norton © Glenn Ligon

Glenn Ligon (b.1960), Self-Portrait, 1996. Silkscreen ink and gesso on canvas, 48 × 40 in. (121.9 × 101.6 cm). Collection of the artist © Glenn Ligon

Glenn Ligon (b.1960), Untitled (Speech/Crowd #2), 2000. Silkscreen ink, coal dust, ink, and glue on paper, 40 × 54 in. (101.6 × 137.2 cm). Collection of the artist © Glenn Ligon; image courtesy the artist and Regen Projects, Los Angeles; photograph by Ronald Amstutz

Glenn Ligon (b. 1960), Untitled (I Feel Most Colored When I Am Thrown Against a Sharp White Background), 1990. Oil stick, gesso, and graphite on wood. 80 × 30 in. (203.2 × 76.2 cm). Collection of Eileen Harris Norton © Glenn Ligon; image courtesy of the artist; photograph by Dennis Cowley

Glenn Ligon (b. 1960), Untitled (Conclusion), 2004. Oil stick, synthetic polymer, oil, coal dust, glue, and graphite on canvas in two parts. 90 × 144 in. (228.6 × 365.8 cm). Collection of Jill and Peter Kraus © Glenn Ligon; image courtesy the artist and Regen Projects, Los Angeles

Glenn Ligon (b. 1960), Therapy #1, 2004. Oil stick, synthetic polymer, and graphite on canvas, 32 × 32 in. (81.3 × 81.3 cm). Collection of Shaun Caley Regen © Glenn Ligon

Glenn Ligon (b. 1960), Endless Column/Nu Nile (Yellow), 1985. Synthetic polymer, ink, and graphite on paper, 22 1/8 × 15 1/4 in. (56.2 × 38.7 cm). Collection of the artist © Glenn Ligon; image courtesy the artist and Regen Projects, Los Angeles; photograph by Ronald Amstutz

Installation view of Glenn Ligon: AMERICA (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, March 10–June 5, 2011). Photograph by Sheldan C. Collins.

Glenn Ligon (b. 1960), No. 276 (Honeycomb), 1990. Oil, synthetic polymer, oil stick, and graphite on paper, 30 × 22 1/4 in. (76.2 × 56.5 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; promised gift of Emily Fisher Landau P.2010.187. © Glenn Ligon; photograph by Tim Nighswander/Imaging4Art.com

Glenn Ligon (b. 1960), Notes on the Margin of the Black Book, 1991–1993. Ninety-one offset prints, 11½ x 11½ in. (29.2 × 29.2 cm) each (framed); seventy-eight text pages, 5¼ x 7¼ in. (13.3 × 18.4 cm) each (framed). Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; gift of The Bohen Foundation © Glenn Ligon

Glenn Ligon (b. 1960), Notes on the Margin of the Black Book, 1991–1993 (detail). Ninety-one offset prints, 11½ x 11½ in. (29.2 × 29.2 cm) each (framed); seventy-eight text pages, 5¼ x 7¼ in. (13.3 × 18.4 cm) each (framed). Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; gift of The Bohen Foundation © Glenn Ligon

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