Glenn Ligon
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Glenn Ligon (born 1960) is an American conceptual artist. He works in multiple media, including painting, video, photography, and digital media such as Adobe Flash for his work Annotations. Ligon is best known for his large, text-based paintings in which a chosen phrase is repeated over and over, eventually dissipating into murk. Another series of large paintings was based on childrens' interpretations of 1970s black-history coloring books. Ligon's work is greatly informed by his experiences as an African American and as a gay man living in the United States. In 2005, Ligon won an Alphonse Fletcher Foundation Fellowship for his art work.
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This art is very moving, worth an afternoon at the Warhol.