Contemporaries Tour: Glenn Ligon at the Brant Foundation

Offsite, The Brant Foundation

Open to Contemporaries and Contemporaries Patron members

Join fellow Contemporaries at The Brant Foundation’s East Village location for a walkthrough of the exhibition Glenn Ligon, which features video, neon installations, and paintings by the artist, whose practice reconsiders American history through engagements with the written word. 

Drawing from a variety of sources—the texts of literary greats James Baldwin and Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Pryor’s stand-up comedy, and Steve Reich’s minimalist musical compositions, to name a few—Ligon’s work addresses the failures of representation in the American zeitgeist. Through multiple works, Ligon demonstrates how a legacy of representation complicates and confounds constructions of race, masculinity, identity, and the nation.