American - Artist | 1960 -
An artwork is an arrangement of things. The ideal show for me would be if everything touched, literally touched, so that everything would blur together.
Glenn Ligon
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I'm interested in when language fails, when it is opaque.
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Sol LeWitt had a huge influence on my work because of his use of repetition and his clarity, setting up a system and letting that system go. That's kind of where the text paintings came from.
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Art points to things. It's a way of giving people not the standard way of looking at the world.
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I make art to figure out what I'm thinking, not to tell people what I think.
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A lot of my work is about text taken to the point of abstraction.
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I don't know if I would describe myself as a political artist.
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I'm a formalist. I'm interested in the history of painting.
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I really don't have a clear trajectory at all.
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Obama is the first African-American president, and for some people, that means a great deal, and for some people, it means very little.
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Literature has been a treacherous site for black Americans because literary production has been so tied with the project of proving our humanity through the act of writing.
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I'm not an Abstraction Expressionist, but I think dedication to paintings comes from an early interest in that work.
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