Contemporaries Tour: Glenn Ligon at the Brant Foundation
Tues, June 24, 2025
5:30–6:30 pm
Installation view of Glenn Ligon at The Brant Foundation New York. Glenn Ligon, Untitled (Bruise/Blues), 2014. Photograph by Sean Keenan
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Offsite, The Brant Foundation
Open to Contemporaries and Contemporaries Patron members
Join fellow Contemporaries at The Brant Foundation’s East Village location for a walkthrough of the exhibition Glenn Ligon, which features video, neon installations, and paintings by the artist, whose practice reconsiders American history through engagements with the written word.
Drawing from a variety of sources—the texts of literary greats James Baldwin and Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Pryor’s stand-up comedy, and Steve Reich’s minimalist musical compositions, to name a few—Ligon’s work addresses the failures of representation in the American zeitgeist. Through multiple works, Ligon demonstrates how a legacy of representation complicates and confounds constructions of race, masculinity, identity, and the nation.