"I still think the social function of art is that kind of negative aesthetic. Otherwise there’s no social function for it."
"Arise!" (2004)
"Arise!," 2004
Spit bite aquatint with direct gravure, 30 1/2 X 34 inches
Printed by Case Hudson, assisted by Rachel Stevenson, Crown Point Press, San Francisco
Edition 25
Courtesy The Pace Gallery, New York
Spit bite aquatint with direct gravure, 30 1/2 X 34 inches
Printed by Case Hudson, assisted by Rachel Stevenson, Crown Point Press, San Francisco
Edition 25
Courtesy The Pace Gallery, New York
"Where I dropped the spots there are these ‘thought bubbles’ - like in cartoons- and they talk to each other. Various conversations emerge from the relationship between them. I pulled the text from black characters in novels or plays, or film screenplays."
- Fred Wilson
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