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HANK WILLIS THOMAS (1976 - ) Resting.
Glass, silver and digital print, 2016. 368x521x38 mm; 14 1/2×20 1/2x1 1/2 inches (including frame).
Provenance: Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, with the gallery label on the frame back; projects+gallery, St. Louis; private collection, Connecticut.
Exhibited: Transparency Shade: Seeing Through the Shadow, projects+gallery, St. Louis, MO, April 7 - May 27, 2017.
Resting is an example of Hank Willis Thomas's series of unique works based on photographs from the civil rights era. Thomas's practice has been a discourse about appropriating and re-contextualizing of images from both popular culture and historical sources. In this series, Thomas deftly inserts representative images of great political and social meaning into the previous domain of non-objective art. In Resting. he introduces an informal image of the leaders of the infamous Selma March of 1965 into a floating metallic color field of reflection and light. The photographic image includes Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Coretta Scott King and John Lewis, and was originally taken by The Birmingham News photographer Spider Martin.
