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Glenn Ligon: Distinguishing Piss from Rain; Writings and Interviews
Glenn Ligon: Distinguishing Piss from Rain; Writings and Interviews
Glenn Ligon: Distinguishing Piss from Rain; Writings and Interviews
Glenn Ligon: Distinguishing Piss from Rain; Writings and Interviews
Glenn Ligon: Distinguishing Piss from Rain; Writings and Interviews
Glenn Ligon: Distinguishing Piss from Rain; Writings and Interviews
Glenn Ligon: Distinguishing Piss from Rain; Writings and Interviews
Glenn Ligon: Distinguishing Piss from Rain; Writings and Interviews
Glenn Ligon: Distinguishing Piss from Rain; Writings and Interviews
Glenn Ligon: Distinguishing Piss from Rain; Writings and Interviews
Glenn Ligon: Distinguishing Piss from Rain; Writings and Interviews
Glenn Ligon: Distinguishing Piss from Rain; Writings and Interviews
Glenn Ligon: Distinguishing Piss from Rain; Writings and Interviews

Glenn Ligon: Distinguishing Piss from Rain; Writings and Interviews

Sale price$38.00

This long-awaited and essential publication collects three decades of writings and interviews by Glenn Ligon, whose work has been delivering an incisive examination of race, history, sexuality, and culture in America since his emergence as an artist in the late 1980s. No stranger to text, Ligon has routinely used writings from James Baldwin, Zora Neale Hurston, Gertrude Stein, Richard Pryor, and others to construct work that centers Blackness within the historically white backdrop of the artworld and culture writ large. He began writing in the early 2000s, engaging deeply with the work of peers such as Julie Mehretu, Chris Ofili, and Lorna Simpson, as well as artists that came before him, among them Philip Guston, David Hammons, and Andy Warhol. Throughout the publication’s sixteen essays, Ligon combines razor-sharp insight with anecdotal and biographical details, providing the fullest picture yet of the artist and his ongoing evaluation of the art and politics of our time. Complementing these texts are illuminating interviews with Helga Davis, Thelma Golden, Byron Kim, Hamza Walker, and others, as well as a foreword by Thomas (T.) Jean Lax and an afterword by the artist.

Glenn Ligon: Distinguishing Piss from Rain; Writings and Interviews
Glenn Ligon: Distinguishing Piss from Rain; Writings and Interviews Sale price$38.00

Language

English

Publisher

Hauser & Wirth Publishers

Composition

Softcover

Contributors

Introduction by Thomas (T.) Jean Lax. Text by and interviews with Glenn Ligon. Edited by James Hoff.

Pages

344 pages

Size

16.5 cm x 24.1 cm

ISBN

9783906915883

Publication Date

July 2024

‘Glenn Ligon is among the great artists of our time or any time. Words are among the materials he knows how to wield with irony, wit, multivalence, and directness. In this brilliant collection of his essays and interviews, Ligon’s polyphony speaks out with a resonance sharpened by acuity and hilarity, and with an intellectual luminousness that continues to determine how I see the world.’

Wayne Koestenbaum

‘What a delight―to read the artwork in the world through Glenn Ligon’s brilliant, incisive eye.’

Saidiya Hartman

‘Ligon gives us much feeling with few words. What else is there to do when you read him but exclaim ‘Boop!’ or audibly exhale?’

Thomas (T.) Jean Lax

The Artist

GLENN LIGON

Glenn Ligon (b. 1960) is an artist living and working in New York. Throughout his career, Ligon has pursued an incisive exploration of American history, literature and society across bodies of work that build critically on the legacies of modern painting and conceptual art. He earned his BA from Wesleyan University (1982) and attended the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program (1985). In 2011, the Whitney Museum of American Art held a mid-career retrospective, ‘Glenn Ligon: AMERICA,’ organized by Scott Rothkopf, that traveled nationally. Important solo exhibitions include ‘Post-Noir,’ Carre d’Art, Nîmes (2022); ‘Glenn Ligon: Call and Response,’ Camden Arts Centre, London, UK (2014); and ‘Glenn Ligon – Some Changes,’ The Power Plant Center for Contemporary Art, Toronto, Canada and then traveled internationally (2005). Select curatorial projects include ‘Grief and Grievance,’ New Museum, New York NY (2021); ‘Blue Black,’ Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis MO (2017); and ‘Glenn Ligon: Encounters and Collisions,’ Nottingham Contemporary and Tate Liverpool, UK (2015). Ligon’s work has been shown in major international exhibitions, including the Venice Biennale (2015, 1997), Berlin Biennial (2014), Istanbul Biennial (2019, 2011) and Documenta XI (2002).

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