Rashid Johnson
The Rise and Fall of a Proper Negro
Oct 24 - Dec 6, 2003
I am a Negro artist demagogue producing work that allows
me to embrace and reject any cultural signifiers that I choose to confront.
Using what David Hammons once called “cultural abstraction”
as a vehicle, I make photos, videos and sculptures that not only work
as devices for self-indulgent muckraking, but also provoke bouts of hopeless
nostalgia. The ideas addressed, hair to language to violence and social
uprising, all work as tools in my devious plan to spelunk the bottomless
agenda of cultural identity politics, word.
