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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

    Date

    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

    Data Source

    Smithsonian American Art Museum

    Topic

    Abstract\geometric

    Metadata Usage

    Not determined

    Link to Original Record

    http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk7ec561315-13b8-4e61-bb45-9af4aa92236f

    Record ID

    saam_2014.16A-FF

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