Artists have a variety of methods to make their mark. Every Friday we will share a photograph of an #ArtistInAction. Glenn Ligon (b. 1960), an American artist from south Bronx, incisively uses text and literature to explore issues of race, sexuality, and identity in his painting, photography, and conceptual work. Ligon is best known for his paintings of texts that he created in the 1990s. Using black ink on white background, Ligon painted evocative sentences from literature, but the words become less legible as they repeat down the canvas. The repetitions paradoxically affirm and undermine the meaning of the quotes; we read it twice, or three times, but the text quickly turns into a cascading jumble of letters. Quoting figures like James Baldwin, Zora Neale Hurston, and Richard Pyor, Ligon employs sampling as a device to examine the social history of America. “Stranger in the Village”, for example, is a series of works that uses excerpts and short phrases from Baldwin’s novel of the s...