American - Photographer | 1977 -
I don't have any other skills. Some artists say that to mean that their embodied passion for art gave them no choice. I say it, very specifically, to say that I really didn't have any other options.
Rashid Johnson
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Oh, yeah, I'm all about ritual.
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You can really learn a lot from young people and the way they view the world.
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I have an investment in the signifying aspects of the material as well as an understanding of antecedent bodies of work. That informs the way I make marks and make decisions.
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Race, class, childhood experience, the books I found on my mother's bookshelf, the albums I found in my father's basement - these things are all part of who I am and will always be a part of my work.
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For me, all the materials and objects I employ come from a specific space that's very personal.
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As an undergrad at Columbia College in Chicago, I came across 'Boondocks,' and then I watched the 'Boondocks' television show.
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The whole ability to look at the complexity of race and any sort of associated -ism and still find humor, that's a very interesting space.
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Growing up in Chicago, there was a very particular type of home that would display the black Jesus figure. It wasn't a radical home. You wouldn't find these in a Black Panther house. There's still a strong allegiance to Christianity.
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I've always had an interest in complicating the way that we perceive the black character, whether it's the black academic or scholar or activist or black intellectual.
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I can bring in all these different components, and I marry these components, and I let them get traversed by the viewer, who reorganizes them.
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