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Glen Ligon- Power House Memphis

Delta Axis

March 22-May 31, 2008

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Power House Memphis is pleased to announce an exhibition of new works by Glenn Ligon that include a series of new black and gold paintings, a new neon work, a wallpaper installation, and a set of prints based on his painting 'Untitled (I am a Man)' made by the artist in the late eighties that was based on the iconic signs carried by striking sanitation workers in Memphis on March 28th 1968.

We are delighted that the artist has accepted the invitation to show these new works at Power House Memphis, which is near the Civil Rights Museum in downtown Memphis. Glenn Ligon is at the forefront of a generation of artists who came to prominence in the late 1980s with conceptually based work that investigates the social, linguistic, and political constructions of race, gender, and sexuality. His art is a meditation on issues of quotation, the presence of the past in the present, and the representation of the self in relation to culture and history.

Glenn Ligon is an American conceptual artist who is best known for his large, text-based paintings in which a chosen phrase is repeated over and over. This exhibition will present a series of Richard Pryor joke paintings with black text on gold-backgrounds. The jokes were transcribed from comedy albums that Pryor recorded for Partee Records, a division of Memphis based Stax records. In 1993, Ligon began the first of three series of paintings based on Richard Pryor’s groundbreaking stand-up comedy routines from the 1970s. The scatological and racially charged jokes Ligon depicts speak in the vernacular language of the street and reveal a complex and nuanced vision of American culture.

All works in the exhibition courtesy the artist Glenn Ligon and Regen Projects
633 North Almont Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90069
Tel. (310) 276-5424 Fax. (310) 276-7430
www.regenprojects.com

 

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  Dates:
  March 22-May 31, 2008

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  Thursday-Saturday, 1:00 ? 6:00
  Sunday, 1:00 ? 6:00

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  Power House

  45 G.E Patterson Memphis, TN 38103

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