
Collection Online as of June 4, 2023
Softground etching
Support: Somerset Velvet wove paper
Image: 60.3 x 50.2 cm (23 3/4 x 19 3/4 in.)
Dr. Gerard and Phyllis Seltzer Fund 2020.77
© Rashid Johnson
not on view
Contemporary artist Rashid Johnson draws on the traditions of painting and conceptual art to explore the lived experiences of African American men. This print belongs to a series that began as an exploration of the artist’s own anxieties but grew to express the experiences of young black men during a time marked by police violence and mass incarceration. In the artist’s words, “I . . . realiz[ed] that my anxiety was not mine exclusively.”