LACMA (Venue Partner)
5905 Wilshire Blvd
323.857.6000
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Malcolm X (Version 1) #1, 2000. Vinyl-based paint, silkscreen ink, and gesso on canvas, 96 x 72 in. (243.8 x 182.9 cm). Collection of Michael and Lise Evans. © Glenn Ligon. Courtesy of the artist and Regen Projects, Los Angeles.
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Oct 23, 2011 – Jan 22
Mondays–Tuesdays (noon–8pm)
Thursdays (noon–8pm)
Fridays (noon–9pm)
Saturdays–Sundays (11am–8pm)
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Directions: LACMA is located on Wilshire Boulevard between Fairfax and Curson avenues—midway between Downtown Los Angeles and Santa Monica. From the Santa Monica Freeway (10), take Fairfax Avenue north 2 miles to Wilshire Boulevard.
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$10 - 15
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“Glenn Ligon is a puncher. Not because he's occasionally treated punching bags like canvasses, but because he relentlessly puts out work that slaps you upside the head, or simply leaves you dazed and impacted. The artist is probably best known for stenciled, text-heavy work that references everything from slave narratives to Richard Pryor jokes, but in his "mid-career" retrospective, we see a full range of ambitious works. There are painted doors; huge neon works like "Negro Sunshine;" sculptural packing-crate pieces like "Henry Box Brown;" coal-dust drawings; and more recent works from the Colorings series. Then there are those punching bags that are metaphors for American society and black men. It lands like boom.”
Wyatt Closs, Flavorpill
Glenn Ligon: AMERICA is the first mid-career retrospective of Ligon’s work in the United States. The exhibition includes unknown early material and the reconstruction of seminal bodies of work such as the Door paintings, the coal dust Stranger canvases and the Coloring series.
