New Poetry

Rashid JohnsonWW-2023-162854

2023·8mm film installation, color, silent, 4:42 min., transferred to video, with two monitors, steel, lights, plants, ceramics, books, and shea butter·Overall: 190 × 359 1/2 × 65 in. (482.6 × 913.1 × 165.1 cm)

<p>Rashid Johnson, <em>New Poetry</em>, 2023. 8mm film installation, color, silent, 4:42 min., transferred to video, with two monitors, steel, lights, plants, ceramics, books, and shea butter, overall: 190 × 359 1/2 × 65 in. (482.6 × 913.1 × 165.1 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from Soledad DeLeon Hurst and Robert J. Hurst in honor of Adam D. Weinberg 2024.31. © Rashid Johnson</p>

Catalogue

Year: 2023
Medium: 8mm film installation, color, silent, 4:42 min., transferred to video, with two monitors, steel, lights, plants, ceramics, books, and shea butter
Dimensions: Overall: 190 × 359 1/2 × 65 in. (482.6 × 913.1 × 165.1 cm)
Collection: Whitney Museum of American Art
Artist: Rashid Johnson

Artist

Rashid Johnson

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Rashid Johnson is one of the most influential American voices in contemporary art whose multidisciplinary works interrogate themes of art historical canons, cultural identity, critical history, and personal narratives. Often drawing from materials or formal vocabularies from autobiographical experiences, Johnson’s practice weaves through the larger context of African American creative histories through film, video, installation, sculpture, and painting.

Chicago

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