Untitled Mask Collage
2017
Vinyl, spray enamel, oil stick, black soap, and wax

When Spring Comes Again
2012
Black soap, wax and spray enamel on branded red flooring

Seascape “The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea”
2021
Oil on linen

Surrender Painting “The River”
2022
Oil on linen

Rashid Johnson (b. 1977, Chicago) is an artist who works in a wide range of everyday materials, including wax, wood, steel, brass, shea butter, ceramic tile and found objects such as books, records, VHS tapes, live plants and CB radios. Johnson first received critical attention at the young age of 24 when he was included in a Thelma Golden curated exhibition at the Studio Museum in Harlem. His work has since been exhibited around the world and is held in collections of many leading art museums. He is known for combining various science with black history so that his materials, which are formally independent, are augmented by their relation to black history.