Untitled Anxious Drawing
2018
This work is an Untitled Anxious Drawing by acclaimed contemporary artist Rashid Johnson, created in 2018. The piece features the artist's signature energetic and calligraphic black marks rendered in oil on cotton rag, with dense overlapping lines forming a frenetic grid like composition. The work conveys a powerful sense of psychological tension and raw gestural expression, hallmarks of Johnson's ongoing exploration of identity, anxiety, and the Black American experience. Presented in a black frame, the work is held in the inventory of Richard Gray Gallery with locations in Chicago and New York.
- Medium
- Oil on cotton rag
- Dimensions
- Spotted At
- Gallery · Richard Gray Gallery
Notes
Work is framed in a black frame. Ownership status noted as 'spotted.' Dimensions as provided are 73.5h x 97.5w cm. No depth recorded.
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Cy Twombly
American · b. 1928
Twombly's work shares the same calligraphic black mark making, frenetic overlapping lines, and psychological intensity seen in Johnson's Anxious Drawing, with both artists using gestural scrawling to communicate emotional and mental states on a raw surface.
Julie Mehretu
Ethiopian American · b. 1970
Mehretu creates large scale abstract works with dense layered gestural marks and energetic calligraphic lines forming grid like compositions, directly mirroring the frenetic visual tension and monochromatic mark making intensity of Johnson's Anxious Drawing.
Mark Bradford
American · b. 1961
Bradford produces large format abstract works rooted in the Black American experience with overlapping dense layered compositions that carry psychological and social weight, sharing Johnson's commitment to expressing identity and anxiety through raw gestural abstraction.
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