Sentences with phrase «cosmic slop»

References to Johnson's interest in cosmology is depicted in the enamel and spray paint painting on canvas, Death in Outer Space, and through the two other black soap and wax pieces with titles of Cosmic Slop.

The series of Cosmic Slop works is cheeky in its nod to Malevich, Reinhardt, and P - Funk, and intricately referential in its medium.

Viewers who saw Johnson's «Cosmic Slop» paintings at MoMA this year can expect more dark, abstract images, this time done in the form of portraits that make use of black soap and wax.

Whereas Anxious Men focused on portrait - sized representations of his frazzled and frantic faces carved from his «cosmic slop» on white tile, Anxious Audience expands these singular faces into entire crowds with rows upon rows of hysterical expressions.

focused on portrait - sized representations of his frazzled and frantic faces carved from his «cosmic slop» on white tile,

They're all here including shea butter, wood, ceramic tile, plants and, what he terms, «cosmic slop» — a thick mixture of black West African soap and wax.

(He calls this mixture «cosmic slop,» after the famous Funkadelic song.)

From the gestural abstraction painting of Cosmic Slop «Black Orpheus» (in which black soap and wax are slathered in high relief) to the arcane photographic processes used to make lines of feet look like dental x-rays in Untitled, Manumission Papers, Johnson does it all.

But even powerfully evocative works like Rashid Johnson's Cosmic Slop series, a tangle of deep lines carved into black soap and wax, were rendered mute in The Forever Now.

This exhibition includes examples from ongoing bodies of work such as Cosmic Slops, The New Negro Escapist Social and Athletic Club, recent shelf sculptures featuring found objects, early examples of his photographs, and a special commission that will cover a gallery floor.