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Rashid Johnson Quotes

The thing that turned out to be interesting about CB radios was the ability to call out in the world with anonymity. You choose your handle. Race and class become non-signifiers Picture Quote #1

The New Black Yoga’ originally was born from a film that I had made prior called ‘Black Yoga.’ And I was living in Berlin at the time, dealing with a lot of anxiety and stress around the project that I was working on, which is not an abnormal thing for me Picture Quote #1

I wanted my art to deal with very formal concerns and to deal with very material concerns, and to deal with antecedents and art history, which for me go very far beyond just the influence of African-American artists Picture Quote #1

As an artist, I’ve always felt most comfortable outside of the art supply store. So domestic materials are the ones that most help inform what I’m trying to talk about and our familiarity as a whole - kind of the collective us, I guess Picture Quote #1

Growing up in Chicago, there was a very particular type of home that would display the black Jesus figure. It wasn’t a radical home. You wouldn’t find these in a Black Panther house. There’s still a strong allegiance to Christianity Picture Quote #1

I say that I suffer from what Rosalind Krauss was calling the post-medium condition, where an artist essentially employs several mediums in order to bring to life whatever specific ideas that they have. For me it’s always been that way Picture Quote #1

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My father had a big brick cell phone, before anyone had a cell phone, because he was really just into that kind of thing - communication devices. I grew up between my father’s laboratory and my mother’s library Picture Quote #1

Race, class, childhood experience, the books I found on my mother’s bookshelf, the albums I found in my father’s basement - these things are all part of who I am and will always be a part of my work Picture Quote #1

My father owned a small company, called Gundel Electronics, where he did community band radio and some repair stuff Picture Quote #1

When I was young, I remember feeling a real thirst for opportunities around the arts, for learning about how artists function and how institutions work Picture Quote #1

My mother introduced me to more academic-minded writers, Cornel West and Skip Gates. In her library, I came across, when I was very young, Harold Cruse’s ‘The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual,’ which is like a bible of Negro intellectuals from Frederick Douglass to Amiri Baraka Picture Quote #1

I was going through a divorce, and I had a lot of reading I was doing, and I developed what was probably a serious anxiety problem - because I was about as poor as you can get, in graduate school, and trying to make my work and keep my head above water Picture Quote #1

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I don’t have any other skills. Some artists say that to mean that their embodied passion for art gave them no choice. I say it, very specifically, to say that I really didn’t have any other options Picture Quote #1

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The thing that turned out to be interesting about CB radios was the ability to call out in the world with anonymity. You choose your handle. Race and class become non-signifiers (Rashid Johnson Quotes) The New Black Yoga’ originally was born from a film that I had made prior called ‘Black Yoga.’ And I was living in Berlin at the time, dealing with a lot of anxiety and stress around the project that I was working on, which is not an abnormal thing for me. (Rashid Johnson Quotes) I wanted my art to deal with very formal concerns and to deal with very material concerns, and to deal with antecedents and art history, which for me go very far beyond just the influence of African-American artists. (Rashid Johnson Quotes) As an artist, I’ve always felt most comfortable outside of the art supply store. So domestic materials are the ones that most help inform what I’m trying to talk about and our familiarity as a whole - kind of the collective us, I guess. (Rashid Johnson Quotes) Growing up in Chicago, there was a very particular type of home that would display the black Jesus figure. It wasn’t a radical home. You wouldn’t find these in a Black Panther house. There’s still a strong allegiance to Christianity. (Rashid Johnson Quotes) I say that I suffer from what Rosalind Krauss was calling the post-medium condition, where an artist essentially employs several mediums in order to bring to life whatever specific ideas that they have. For me it’s always been that way. (Rashid Johnson Quotes) My father had a big brick cell phone, before anyone had a cell phone, because he was really just into that kind of thing - communication devices. I grew up between my father’s laboratory and my mother’s library. (Rashid Johnson Quotes) Race, class, childhood experience, the books I found on my mother’s bookshelf, the albums I found in my father’s basement - these things are all part of who I am and will always be a part of my work. (Rashid Johnson Quotes) My father owned a small company, called Gundel Electronics, where he did community band radio and some repair stuff. (Rashid Johnson Quotes) When I was young, I remember feeling a real thirst for opportunities around the arts, for learning about how artists function and how institutions work. (Rashid Johnson Quotes) My mother introduced me to more academic-minded writers, Cornel West and Skip Gates. In her library, I came across, when I was very young, Harold Cruse’s ‘The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual,’ which is like a bible of Negro intellectuals from Frederick Douglass to Amiri Baraka. (Rashid Johnson Quotes) I was going through a divorce, and I had a lot of reading I was doing, and I developed what was probably a serious anxiety problem - because I was about as poor as you can get, in graduate school, and trying to make my work and keep my head above water. (Rashid Johnson Quotes) I don’t have any other skills. Some artists say that to mean that their embodied passion for art gave them no choice. I say it, very specifically, to say that I really didn’t have any other options. (Rashid Johnson Quotes)