Rashid Johnson: Untitled Anxious Print (2023)
Phaidon and Artspace are pleased to announce a new limited edition etching by pioneering artist Rashid Johnson
This limited edition is released on the occasion of Johnson’s new Contemporary Artist Series monograph. Each signed and numbered etching is sold with a hardcover copy of the new CAS book and comes in a bespoke portfolio case.
Untitled Anxious Print (2023) joins the artist’s iconic 'Anxious Men' series, which debuted with a landmark 2015 exhibition of works on paper at New York’s Drawing Center and launched a persevering visual lexicon that has since been incorporated throughout the artist’s practice, including large-scale mosaic installations at the Metropolitan Opera and LaGuardia Airport in New York.
Recognized as one of the major voices of his generation, Johnson has created a nuanced and iconographic body of work influenced by art, literature, and critical theory that spans painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, installations, videos, and performances. A precocious talent – his work was included in the seminal ‘Freestyle’ exhibition in New York in 2001 – Johnson received the High Museum of Art’s David C. Driskell Prize, which honors contributions in the field of African American art.
Specifications:
Edition of 100 with 6 AP and 4 PP + BAT
Print: Soft Ground Etching on Hahnemühle Copperplate on 300gsm paper
Size: 9 inches x 8 inches or 22.86 cm x 20.32 cm
Rashid Johnson (b. 1977, Chicago) composes searing meditations on race and class while establishing an organic formal vocabulary that fuses a variety of sculptural and painterly traditions. Johnson was one of six artists commissioned in 2022 by the Queens Museum, New York, and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to create a site-specific, permanent installation for Delta Airlines’ new terminal at the LaGuardia Airport in Queens, New York.
In 2021, the Metropolitan Opera, New York, commissioned Johnson to create large-scale artworks for its opera house, and a major outdoor sculpture by Johnson was installed at Storm King Art Center, New Windsor, New York. His work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Metropolitan Museum, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Guggenheim Museum, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago among many others. His first feature-length film, an adaptation of Richard Wright’s Native Son, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was released on HBO in 2019. Johnson lives and works in New York.