id: 449837 accession number: 2021.161 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2021.161 updated: 2023-02-24 19:45:07.986000 Standing Broken Men, 2021. Rashid Johnson (American, b. 1977). Ceramic tile, mirror tile, branded red oak, bronze, spray enamel, oil stick, black soap, wax; 240.7 x 186.7 x 7.6 cm (94 3/4 x 73 1/2 x 3 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Agnes Gund in honor of Helena Huang 2021.161 © Rashid Johnson title: Standing Broken Men title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 2021 creation date earliest: 2021 creation date latest: 2021 current location: 229A Contemporary creditline: Gift of Agnes Gund in honor of Helena Huang copyright: © Rashid Johnson --- culture: America technique: Ceramic tile, mirror tile, branded red oak, bronze, spray enamel, oil stick, black soap, wax department: Contemporary Art collection: Sculpture type: Mixed Media find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Rashid Johnson (American, b. 1977) - artist --- measurements: 240.7 x 186.7 x 7.6 cm (94 3/4 x 73 1/2 x 3 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Contemporary Art Rotation - Spring 2022 opening date: 2022-04-01T04:00:00 Contemporary Art Rotation - Spring 2022. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 1-September 25, 2022). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Agnes Gund, New York, NY, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: 2021 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 2021– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: Standing Broken Men is composed of fine art and organic materials, all of which are common throughout Rashid Johnson’s work. digital description: At the center of a frenzied mosaic, an abstract, fractured figure stares, wide-eyed, out at the viewer. Standing Broken Men and a related series of mixed-media mosaic works grew out of Johnson’s Anxious Men and Anxious Audiences series (2015–18) in which the artist used frantic marks to render abstracted faces in gridded formations. As Standing Broken Men exemplifies, Johnson continues to make vivid the experience of anxiety, now composing figures through fragmented shards. Through this technique, brokenness is inherent in the figures and the pictorial worlds they inhabit. However, their pieces are reassembled into dynamic colorful wholes, suggesting the possibility for healing and renewal. wall description: At the center of a frenzied mosaic, an abstract, fractured figure stares, wide-eyed, out at the viewer. Standing Broken Men and a related series of mixed media mosaic works grew out of Johnson’s Anxious Men and Anxious Audiences series (2015–18) in which the artist used frantic marks to render abstracted faces in gridded formations. As Standing Broken Men exemplifies, Johnson continues to make vivid the experience of anxiety, now composing figures through fragmented shards. Through this technique, brokenness is inherent in the figures and the pictorial worlds they inhabit. However, their pieces are reassembled into dynamic colorful wholes, suggesting the possibility for healing and renewal. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS “Now on View.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 62, no. 1: Back cover. page number: Reproduced and Mentioned: Back cover. url: --- IMAGES