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Untitled Anxious Crowd
2018
Rashid Johnson
Rashid Johnson (American, b. 1977)
Prints
Untitled Anxious Crowd, 2018. Rashid Johnson (American, b. 1977), Jennifer Melby (American), Hauser & Wirth. Softground etching; image: 50.5 x 61.3 cm (19 7/8 x 24 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dr. Gerard and Phyllis Seltzer Fund 2020.78 © Rashid Johnson 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.” 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.
- Maker/Artist
- Johnson, Rashid
- Classification
- Formatted Medium
- softground etching
- Medium
- softground, etching
- Dimensions
- Image: 50.5 x 61.3 cm (19 7/8 x 24 1/8 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: signed and dated on verso, lower right, in pencil: R Johnson 2018; inscribed on verso, lower left, in pencil: 34/35; partial watermark, at lower right: Somerset
- Departments
- Prints
- Accession Number
- 2020.78
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