June 1—August 19\, 2007
Open ing reception\, Thursday May 31\, 8pm
| Glenn Ligon:
Some Changes surveys the breadth of the New York based artists’ oeuvre over
the last seventeen years. Ligon is at the forefront of a generation of ar
tists who came to prominence in the late 1980s on the strength of conceptua
lly based paintings and photo-text work that investigates the social\, ling
uistic and political construction of race\, gender and sexuality. Incorpora
ting sources as diverse as James Baldwin’s texts\, photographic scrapbooks\
, and Richard Pryor’s stand-up comic routines\, Ligon’s art is a sustained
meditation on issues of quotation\, the presence of the past in the present
\, and the representation of the self in relationship to culture and histor
y. Over the past two decades Ligon’s practice has incorporated paintin g\, installation\, printmaking\, sculpture\, video\, and recently\, web-bas ed projects. His work has appeared in Documenta XI\, Kassel (2002)\, the X XIV Bienal de Sao Paulo (1998) and the Venice Biennale (1997). His extensi ve exhibition history also includes solo shows at the Kunstverein Munich (2 001)\, the Walker Art Center\, Minneapolis (2000)\, and the San Francisco M useum of Modern Art (1996). Glenn Ligon: Some Changes is organized and circulated by The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery at Harbourfront Cen tre\, Toronto\, and co-curated by Wayne Baerwaldt and Thelma Golden. The e xhibition\, which has toured to galleries around the U.S.A.\, has been met with critical success and Ligon’s 2005 work Warm Broad Glow\, was featured on the cover of Artforum’s May 2006 issue. With the generous support of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts\, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation\, Peter Norton Family Foundation\, Albert & Temmy Latner Founda tion and Toby Devan Lewis. Additional support is provided by Hal Jackman F oundation\, Judy Schulich\, The Broad Art Foundation\, Gregory R. Miller\, The Drake Hotel\, The Linda Pace Foundation and Dr. Kenneth Montague. | <
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