Provenance
Regen Projects, Los Angeles
Catalogue Essay
In an interview with Museo Magazine Glenn Ligon was asked about the legibility and comprehensive understanding of his works including texts as well as works not including words. Ligon responded: “From the first text paintings, which used quotations from authors like Zora Neale Hurston, Jean Genet, Walt Whitman, or Ralph Ellison, this question of legibility was foregrounded partially because the quotes that I was using in those early paintings always had the word “I” in them, and the titles of the paintings didn’t clearly identify them as coming from specific authors or specific essays or novels. So, there was always confusion for the viewer about who that “I” was. Over time, it became known that ‘Glenn Ligon makes text paintings using quotes,’ but even then, there was still confusion about that: What does it mean to take on another person’s words as a way of talking about the self? One of the things I’ve always been interested in was the connection or collision of identities—that something written by Hurston in the 20s could seem incredibly relevant and autobiographical in some sense, that one could inhabit it, in the way that when you were a kid, you wanted to be a rock star, and everything about that rock star seemed to express who you were. It’s the same kind of relationship to those texts for me: The text is something that I wanted to inhabit, and the way I chose to inhabit it was to make paintings that have quotes that create confusion about who’s speaking” (D. Drogin, “Glenn Ligon,” Museo Magazine, Issue 14). In his painting Gold Just Us #7, Ligon borrowed a joke from comedian Richard Pryor.

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Glenn Ligon

Gold just us #7

2008
Acrylic and oilstick on canvas.
32 x 32 in. (81.3 x 81.3 cm).
Signed, titled and dated “Glenn Ligon 2008 Gold Just us # 7” on the overlap.

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$70,000 - 90,000

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Glenn Ligon
Gold just us #7
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Charles Ray
Wet Paint
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Robert Gober
Untitled Candle
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Dan Colen
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Christopher Wool
ONE YEAR NO HALLOWEEN (P464)
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Cy Twombly
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Andy Warhol
Mona Lisa
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Jeff Koons
Caterpillar Ladder
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George Condo
Particle Pick Up
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Andy Mouse
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Richard Prince
Crazy Three
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Frank and Jamie
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113
Richard Prince
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Takashi Murakami
Eye Love SUPERFLAT
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Sex at Noon Taxes
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Roy Lichtenstein
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Mark Rothko
No. 9
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118
Ed Ruscha
Production
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Cecily Brown
Eclogue
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Eric Fischl
April in the Shower
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Jean-Michel Basquiat
MP
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Selections from Erlauf II
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Bill Viola
Union
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Wade Guyton
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Martin Creed
Work No. 202: Half the air in a given space
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Raymond Pettibon
No Title (a reaction to) Surfer
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