Black & White
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Object Details
- Artist
- Byron Kim, born La Jolla, CA 1961
- Glenn Ligon, born New York City 1960
- Gallery Label
- Black & White is a collaboration between Byron Kim and Glenn Ligon, both of whom were struck by the limited pink-white range of "flesh-colored" paint available in art stores. In response, Kim, who is Korean American, painted sixteen panels of the pinkish flesh tones and Ligon, who is African American, painted sixteen panels using various black pigments. Arranged in an austere grid, Black & White elegantly underscores racial privilege.
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the C.K. Williams Family Foundation, Pamela K. and William A. Royall, Jr., Jane and James H. Cohan, Mihail Lari and Scott Murray, Aimee and Robert Lehrman, Home Front Communications, and museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment
- Copyright
- © 1993, Byron Kim and Glenn Ligon
- 1993
- Object number
- 2014.16A-FF
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Painting
- Medium
- oil on wood panels
- Dimensions
- overall: 43 × 71 in. (109.2 × 180.3 cm) each panel: 10 × 8 in. (25.4 × 20.3 cm)
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- Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Topic
- Abstract\geometric
- Record ID
- saam_2014.16A-FF
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk7ec561315-13b8-4e61-bb45-9af4aa92236f
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