Artist Talk: Rashid Johnson

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Aspen Art Museum Nancy and Bob Magoon CEO and Director Heidi Zuckerman interviews artist Rashid Johnson.
Rashid Johnson was born in Chicago, in 1977, and lives and works in New York. A critical theory framework extends across his paintings, sculptures, photography, and video work, investigating legacies of and possibilities for African American intellectual and cultural life. His work has been the subject of recent solo exhibitions at the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, the Grand Palais, Paris, the Drawing Center, the High Line, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver. He is the recipient of the 2018 Aspen Award for Art.
American Sign Language interpretation provided by the Aspen Camp for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing.
AAM education programs are made possible by the Questrom Education Fund. AAM talks and lectures are presented as part of the Questrom Lecture Series and made possible by the Questrom Education Fund.

[@JoyceDade]

@RashidJohnson 💐 No artist Creator in this country greater than you, or as informed and brilliant, and so your generosity and transparency as a sensitive, intelligent human being, and creative, is a great gift to us all. You check the gilded golden boxes, and you ring the 🔔🔔 bells of a consummate American artist of great valor, and what the great pleasure it is to know you exist and articulate so profoundly. You get grilled here, sweetly, and your audience no doubt, and I am glad you get Q&A tested in such a way, and as you relect back to your lovely Interviewer, answers which are rich and satisfying. Please accept to heart ❤️ my praise, admiration and gratitude for what you have given our world, and the intellectual world of ourselves. The great American art you create. Your invocation of Baldwin brings a punch of added power to your discourse, and makes my joy listening to you amplify.Please accepted my bouquet of flowers💐💐 and my appreciation for the giant, multiple genius you express so profoundly. 💐💐

[@paulathistleton1339]

So insightful - his comments about being responsible for explaining the world to his son really resonated. I liked how he felt optimistic moving forward and the possibility his son may like engineering as a profession. His mother must be very awesome!

[@casteretpollux]

Just adding - I enjoyed this so much -so funny, revealing and interesting I've listened twice.

[@tylerfraser13]

Great talk

[@domenicming9551]

his talk style is like louis CK when he's excited - but also good talk!

[@marialuzarlenelegaspi3038]

thank you

[@vealgangains6314]

Art object? Lol

[@rutbrea8796]

My goodness, what is art really today? I don't see anything on these works that inspires me. Sorry 😐 but I like to be honest, cannot say something I don't feel.

[@stangss1]

Yawnnnnn Pretty lame