HANK WILLIS THOMAS "AFTER IDENTITY, WHAT?", 2011 Harold Town Drawing They come together with movement

They come together with movement

resulting in paintings with great impasto and a variety of textures and surfaces

This drawing showcases three comic-strip style drawings

A textured cloud-grey parallelogram anchors the center of the composition

disrupting the voyeuristic nature of this work by making his presence known

HANK WILLIS THOMAS "AFTER IDENTITY, WHAT?", 2011 Harold Town Drawing They come together with movementHank Willis Thomas (b. 1976) is an American conceptual artist renowned for his thought provoking works that examine the intersection of race, identity, and commodity in pop culture. Trained as a photographer, Thomas' oeuvre is steeped with references of visual culture in America. Through this lens, the artist challenges and dismantles the commodification of Black bodies by subverting ubiquitous iconography, such as logos and source images, that