GLENN LIGON | No Room (Gold) #50

Regen Projects, Los Angeles
Acquired from the above by the present owner in April 2010

This work is in excellent condition overall. The surface texture is inherent to the work and artist's working method. There is slight evidence of wear and handling along the edges. Under Ultraviolet light inspection, there is no evidence of restoration. Unframed.
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"It is central to their deconstructive force, rather than trivial, that Ligon re-presents Pryor's jokes as statements lodged between the verbal and the visual, the perceptual and conceptual—in effect, between the scene of the myth and that of its possible verification. Pryor's joke purports but fails to make visible what can exist only in fantasy, and Ligon's paintings literally realize this, monumentalizing the necessary failure at the joke's core." Darby English, "Glenn Ligon: Committed to Difficulty" in Exh. Cat., Toronto, The Power Plant, Glenn Ligon – Some Changes, 2005, p. 63