# @drawingcenter on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/BSTn908h0qZ
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/16047225-drawingcenter-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/651c1f99d9.jpg
- **Posted:** 2017-03-31T14:56:08.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The Drawing Center (@drawingcenter) — https://gondola.cc/drawingcenter

## Caption

Artists have a variety of methods to make their mark. Every Friday we will share a photograph of an #ArtistInAction. 
Originally a photographer, Rashid Johnson branched out into sculpture and figurative painting, particularly with his black soap images, fairly recently. In late 2015 he showed a sampling of this newer work at The Drawing Center, in a show entitled “Rashid Johnson: Anxious Men”. Each of these images, formed by scraping into and pulling up the soap ground once it has been splashed and laid on the tile base, reductively manifests as a stylized, grimacing face. Johnson was born in Chicago in 1977. His mother, Dr. Cheryl Johnson-Odim, attained her doctorate from Northwestern, while his father was an artist and worked in electronics. Johnson grew up on their Afro-centric philosophies, pulling his own relationship to race and identity politics into his artwork.Attending School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Johnson developed a body of work that engaged in history and African American identity through photography, installation, sculpture, and painting. His work is at once energetic and reflective, whether he utilizes text, images, or even gridded structures covered in greenery. 
#RashidJohnson

Image: Rashid Johnson using the black soap method. Image from Art in America.

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