The black figure has always been a subject of entertainment in popular culture, as well as an image to sell things. In some ways, that’s how people relate to us—because they’ve seen us on television.
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Derrick Adams
Two Drawings by Paul Dickerson
- Cachao by Jorge Socarrás
- Sundance: Danny Boyle by Susan Shacter
- Sundance: Antonia Bird by Susan Shacter
- Dave Hickey by Saul Ostrow
- David Seidner by Louise Neri
- Bradford Morrow by Jim Lewis
- Juliana Hatfield by Steven Cantor
- Liz Diamond by Marc Robinson
- Felix Gonzalez-Torres by Ross Bleckner
- Ida Applebroog, Jill Baroff and Lauren Szold by Suzanne McClelland
- Li-Young Lee by James Lee
- Shirley Kaneda by David Clarkson
- William H. Gass by Jan Garden Castro
Interviews
Paul Dickerson, Untitled study, 1993/95, magic marker on marker board.
Paul Dickerson, Study for Distention, 1993/95, magic marker on marker board.
Related
Renee Gladman is the author of ten works of prose and poetry, most recently Calamities, a collection of essay-fictions. Her first monograph of drawings, Prose Architectures, was published by Wave Books in 2017. She lives in New England with the poet-ceremonialist Danielle Vogel.
Raymond Pettibon found his calling as an artist at about the same time punk hit Los Angeles in 1978.
“That’s why coming back to dreams, I know what people mean when they say that but dreams are not abstract. In my dreams I use images from the world to make stories. I don’t think of my work in terms of storytelling. Perhaps as instantaneous potential for a story, you could look at one of my paints and say, something’s happening. But not in the sense of a plot line.”
Originally published in
BOMB 51,
Spring 1995
Featuring interviews with Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Juliana Hatfield, Li Young Lee, Antonia Bird & Danny Boyle, Liz Diamond, Bradford Morrow, Dave Hickey, David Seidner, Shirley Kaneda, Cachao, and William Gass.
