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Leonard & Louise Riggio: Collected Works
GLENN LIGON (B. 1960)
Untitled (I Feel Most Colored When I Am Thrown Against a Sharp White Background)
Details
GLENN LIGON (B. 1960)
Untitled (I Feel Most Colored When I Am Thrown Against a Sharp White Background)
signed and dated ‘Glenn Ligon 1990’ (on the reverse)
oil stick, gesso and graphite on panel
80 x 30 in. (203.2 x 76.2 cm.)
Executed in 1990.
Untitled (I Feel Most Colored When I Am Thrown Against a Sharp White Background)
signed and dated ‘Glenn Ligon 1990’ (on the reverse)
oil stick, gesso and graphite on panel
80 x 30 in. (203.2 x 76.2 cm.)
Executed in 1990.
Provenance
Max Protetch Gallery, New York, 1990
Eileen and Peter Norton, Santa Monica, 2000
Hauser & Wirth, New York, 2015
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2015
Eileen and Peter Norton, Santa Monica, 2000
Hauser & Wirth, New York, 2015
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2015
Literature
Glenn Ligon: To Disembark, exh. cat., Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, 1993, n.p., fig. 4 (illustrated).
Coloring: New Work by Glenn Ligon, exh. cat., Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, 2001, p. 10 (illustrated; dated 1990-1991).
Glenn Ligon: Some Changes, exh. cat., Toronto, The Power Plant, 2005, p. 126 (detail illustrated; dated 1990-1991).
G. Ligon, Yourself in the World: Selected Writings and Interviews, New Haven and London, 2011, pp. 97-98, fig. 38 (illustrated).
Glenn Ligon: Encounters and Collisions, exh. cat., Tate Liverpool, 2015, pp. 23 and 26 (illustrated).
Untitled (America)/Debris Field/Synecdoche/Notes for a Poem on the Third World, exh. cat., Los Angeles, Regen Projects, 2019, n.p. (illustrated).
J. Hoff, Glenn Ligon: Distinguishing Piss from Rain; Writings and Reviews, Zurich, 2024, pp. 211, 250 and 330 (illustrated).
Coloring: New Work by Glenn Ligon, exh. cat., Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, 2001, p. 10 (illustrated; dated 1990-1991).
Glenn Ligon: Some Changes, exh. cat., Toronto, The Power Plant, 2005, p. 126 (detail illustrated; dated 1990-1991).
G. Ligon, Yourself in the World: Selected Writings and Interviews, New Haven and London, 2011, pp. 97-98, fig. 38 (illustrated).
Glenn Ligon: Encounters and Collisions, exh. cat., Tate Liverpool, 2015, pp. 23 and 26 (illustrated).
Untitled (America)/Debris Field/Synecdoche/Notes for a Poem on the Third World, exh. cat., Los Angeles, Regen Projects, 2019, n.p. (illustrated).
J. Hoff, Glenn Ligon: Distinguishing Piss from Rain; Writings and Reviews, Zurich, 2024, pp. 211, 250 and 330 (illustrated).
Exhibited
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Whitney Biennial 1991, April-June 1991, pp. 153 and 379 (illustrated).
Santa Barbara, University Art Museum; Santa Monica Museum of Art and Raleigh, North Carolina Museum of Art, Knowledge: Aspects of Conceptual Art, January-October 1992, pp. 20 and 70 (illustrated).
Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum, Glenn Ligon / MATRIX 120, August-November 1992, pp. 4, 9 and 11 (illustrated).
London, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Mirage: Enigmas of Race, Difference and Desire, May-August 1995, n.p. (titled Untitled (I Feel Most Colored...)).
Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Institute of Contemporary Art, Glenn Ligon: Unbecoming, January-March 1998, pp. 12-13 and 56 (illustrated; dated 1990-1991).
Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston and ArtPace San Antonio, Other Narratives, May-October 1999, pp. 16, 46 and 54, pl. 7 (illustrated; dated 1990-1991).
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Glenn Ligon: AMERICA, March 2011-June 2012, pp. 27, 57, 60, 98 and 273, pl. 18 (illustrated).
Santa Barbara, University Art Museum; Santa Monica Museum of Art and Raleigh, North Carolina Museum of Art, Knowledge: Aspects of Conceptual Art, January-October 1992, pp. 20 and 70 (illustrated).
Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum, Glenn Ligon / MATRIX 120, August-November 1992, pp. 4, 9 and 11 (illustrated).
London, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Mirage: Enigmas of Race, Difference and Desire, May-August 1995, n.p. (titled Untitled (I Feel Most Colored...)).
Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Institute of Contemporary Art, Glenn Ligon: Unbecoming, January-March 1998, pp. 12-13 and 56 (illustrated; dated 1990-1991).
Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston and ArtPace San Antonio, Other Narratives, May-October 1999, pp. 16, 46 and 54, pl. 7 (illustrated; dated 1990-1991).
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Glenn Ligon: AMERICA, March 2011-June 2012, pp. 27, 57, 60, 98 and 273, pl. 18 (illustrated).
Brought to you by
Vanessa Fusco
International Director, Head of Department, Impressionist & Modern Art