Glenn Ligon

INCLUDING QUOTES FOR EDITOR AND ARTIST HUEY COPELAND “Art history of the sort that Huey Copealnd produces, in its capacity to make us see works of art anew, makes us see the world anew as well. Such vision is often discomfiting and, as such, unwanted precisely insofar as it refuses to allow any simple separation of beauty and ugliness, enjoyment and terror. But this is exactly what makes such vision necessary.”—Fred Moten, Bound to Appear, 2013 “A highly gifted writer, Copeland navigates the discourses of his field of study and the accumulated position-takings of contemporary cultural critiques in its minoritarian rigor and emphases, as well as a general appeal to what Virginia Woolf once called the ‘common reader’ with uncommon idiomatic ease, with inimitable grace.”— Hortense J. Spillers, Small Axe, 2015 “Huey Copeland’s wonderful work as a writer puts articulations of blackness in the Western visual field to the forefront.” –from C-print, 2017; https://www.c-print.se/post/2017/10/03/In-Conversation-Huey-Copeland “Dr. Huey Copeland is the 2019 recipient of the David C. Driskell Prize in recognition of his contributions to the field of African-American art history. Through his work as an award-winning writer and a professor of art history at Northwestern University, Copeland has advanced scholarship of modern and contemporary art of the African Diaspora and intersections of race, class, gender and sexuality in Western visual culture…. ” –Driskell Prize, 2019; https://high.org/driskell-prize/dr-huey-copeland/ GLENN LIGON Glenn Ligon at Brandt Foundation "Opening on May 21, this latest exhibition does not merely present Ligon—it stages a confrontation. With words that bruise and neon that glares, Ligon demands the viewer not look away from the uncomfortable—history, identity, exclusion—those shadowy structures that scaffold the American narrative."https://artefuse.com/glenn-ligon-at-the-brant-foundation-a-mirror-to-americas-fractured-reflections-nyc/ ARTFORUM https://www.artforum.com/video/glenn-ligon-on-james-baldwin-david-hammons-and-more-for-under-the-influence-1234722065/ " Artforum’s newest video series, “Under the Influence,” invites the most significant artists of today to discuss the ideas, events, works, and people that have been crucial to their development. For the second episode, we talk to artist Glenn Ligon, who reflects on learning from David Hammons, his earliest memories of artmaking, and the influence that New York’s Studio Museum in Harlem continues to have on his practice." Glenn Ligon in the GUARDIAN https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/sep/25/glenn-ligon-interview-identity-politics "In a show at Cambridge’s Fitzwilliam museum, the leading US artist highlights how identity, culture and history in art is contingent on who is doing the looking"