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Rashid Johnson
American
1977
Photographer
For me, all the materials and objects I employ come from a specific space that's very personal.
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You can really learn a lot from young people and the way they view the world.
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My composition often goes toward the black middle class or the black super-wealthy or strong historical black figures.
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My father owned a small company, called Gundel Electronics, where he did community band radio and some repair stuff.
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My father ran a CB radio business. I grew up in a cluttered space that was filled with radios and antennas. It felt alien.
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I can bring in all these different components, and I marry these components, and I let them get traversed by the viewer, who reorganizes them.
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When I was younger, I would see shea butter being sold on the street, and I was interested how people were still coating themselves in the theater of Africanism. You see that in dashikis and hairstyles and music.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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When I was younger, I remember there was a really famous book, and it was called 'The People Could Fly.' And so this idea of, kind of like, black characters kind of jumping into space and kind of the challenge that they presented to gravity I thought was really interesting.
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