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6-Channel Screen Print on Paper
80 x 70 cm
Edition of 45
Seascape, 2021 is a variation on a series of ‘boat’ drawings that Rashid Johnson began to make while isolating with his family in Long Island during the tense early months of 2020. With limited resources to hand and finding that the activity of repetitive mark–making was a therapeutic antidote to the anxiety –inducing circumstances of the COVID–19 global pandemic, Johnson began a new project, drawing daily in a series of sketchbooks. Regular sketching had been a foundational element of Johnson’s early practice, which until then had lain largely dormant as he concerned himself with other media, especially installation and painting. In Johnson’s print, the overlapping curved pencil lines suggest boats or waves. The boat, which may be understood as a metaphorical vehicle of escape, is a reoccurring theme in Johnson’s work. These vessels seem to promise access to a future point in time, beyond the catastrophe of the present moment.
This artwork is available through South London Gallery
6-Channel Screen Print on Paper
80 x 70 cm
Edition of 45
Seascape, 2021 is a variation on a series of ‘boat’ drawings that Rashid Johnson began to make while isolating with his family in Long Island during the tense early months of 2020. With limited resources to hand and finding that the activity of repetitive mark–making was a therapeutic antidote to the anxiety –inducing circumstances of the COVID–19 global pandemic, Johnson began a new project, drawing daily in a series of sketchbooks. Regular sketching had been a foundational element of Johnson’s early practice, which until then had lain largely dormant as he concerned himself with other media, especially installation and painting. In Johnson’s print, the overlapping curved pencil lines suggest boats or waves. The boat, which may be understood as a metaphorical vehicle of escape, is a reoccurring theme in Johnson’s work. These vessels seem to promise access to a future point in time, beyond the catastrophe of the present moment.
This artwork is available through South London Gallery