This catalogue was published in conjunction with the exhibition "Rashid Johnson: Message to Our Folks," organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and curated by Julie Rodrigues Widholm, Pamela Alper Associate Curator. The exhibition was presented at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, April 14, 2012-August 5, 2012.
Rashid Johnson: The Rainbow Sign
In this way, the exhibition, documented in this volume, creates an immersive space that implicates not only the artist but also the viewer in its interrogation of selfhood and identity.
Correspondence between two imprisoned Black revolutionaries, smuggled out from behind the walls.
Kevin "Rashid" Johnson entered the u.s. prison system over 20 years ago, one of countless young Black men consigned to lifelong incarceration by the post-civil right policies of anti-Black genocide.
The book invites you into the private studios of seventeen of the most celebrated contemporary artists as they draw, paint, sculpt, or design an original project for readers to recreate at home.
Something to Put Something on
The book features an essay by Tom Morton.
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