Sentences with phrase «stenciled oil stick»
His best - known pieces are a series of canvases, usually vertical in orientation and rendered in lustrous passages of stenciled oil stick, which lift and repeat selected lines from the writings of James Baldwin.
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Glenn Ligon stencils phrases in oil stick — «the invisibility of whiteness» is one — to the point where words become an indecipherable and gritty physical surface.
Drawing primarily from African American authors such as Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison and James Baldwin, Ligon regularly employs appropriated text as a scaffold to build the surface of his work with his trademark stencil and oil stick.
Among Ligon's own contributions to «Encounters and Collisions» were several works with texts that employ the first - person pronoun: In Untitled (I am drawn to sleaze...), 1985, the parenthetical phrase has been handwritten across an expanse of juicy oil pigment; in Untitled (I Lost My Voice I Found My Voice), 1991, the text was repeatedly stenciled in oil stick onto a gessoed white ground until it became illegible; in Study for Condition Report, 2000, annotations identifying damage and wear are made on a photocopy of a photograph of a painting reprising the famous protest signs declaring I AM A MAN.