Glenn Ligon addresses issues of racial and sexual identity in his paintings, photographs, and conceptual projects. Prisoner of Love #1, #2, and #3 (all 1992) belong to an early body of work in which black text is stenciled on white ground with increasing intensity and depth.

Glenn Ligon (born 1960, pronounced Lie-gōne) is an American conceptual artist whose work explores race, language, desire, sexuality, and identity. [1] Based in New York City, Ligon's work often draws on 20th century literature and speech of 20th century cultural figures such as James Baldwin , Zora Neale Hurston , Gertrude Stein , Jean Genet ...

Glenn Ligon (b. 1960) is an artist living and working in New York. Throughout his career, Ligon has pursued an incisive exploration of American history, literature, and society across bodies of work that build critically on the legacies of modern painting and conceptual art.

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Dylan Glenn is a Principal at Eldridge Industries. He is the former Chairman of Guggenheim KBBO Partners, Ltd., a Dubai based joint venture partnership between the KBBO Group and Guggenheim Partners. Prior to this role, Mr. Glenn was Senior Managing Director of Guggenheim Partners, where he joined in 2005.

Nov 18, 2019 · Glenn Ligon earned a BA from Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut. He works in several mediums, such as painting, printmaking, and neon. Ligon’s work is intertextual, drawing on writings from such diverse authors and figures as Richard Pryor, Gertrude Stein, James Baldwin, and Walt Whitman.

For four decades, New York–based artist Glenn Ligon (born 1960) has explored America’s literature and fraught racial history through works in a few signature mediums such as text-based paintings and neon.

The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation offers fellowships to exceptional individuals in pursuit of scholarship in any field of knowledge and creation in any art form, under the freest possible conditions.

Dylan Glenn is a Senior Director at Eldridge, a diversified holding company headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut. He is the former Chairman of Guggenheim KBBO Partners, Ltd., a Dubai-based joint venture partnership between the KBBO Group and Guggenheim Partners.

Dylan Coburn Glenn is a Managing Director of the Guggenheim Partners. He is a part of Guggenheim Investment Advisory, working as a senior member of Marketing and Client Services team in New York.