Glenn Ligon

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Untitled (I'm Turning Into a Specter Before Your Very Eyes and I'm Going to Haunt You) 1992, Oil and gesso on canvas. The Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Untitled (I'm Turning Into a Specter Before Your Very Eyes and I'm Going to Haunt You) 1992, Oil and gesso on canvas. The Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Glenn Ligon is an American conceptual artist.

[edit] Life and works

Born in 1960 in the Bronx, he graduated with a B.A. from Wesleyan University and currently lives and works in New York City.[1] He works in multiple media, including painting, video, photography, and digital media such as Adobe Flash for his work Annotations. Ligon is best known for his large, text-based paintings in which a chosen phrase is repeated over and over, eventually dissipating into murk. Another series of large paintings was based on children's interpretations of 1970s black-history coloring books. Ligon's work is greatly informed by his experiences as an African American and as a gay man living in the United States. In 2005, Ligon won an Alphonse Fletcher Foundation Fellowship for his art work.

[edit] References

  1. ^ http://www.broadartfoundation.org/collection/ligon.html

[edit] External links

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