Rashid Johnson, The Unwearable Dashiki, 2001
Images of Rashid Johnson, The Unwearable Dashiki
The Unwearable Dashiki, 2001
Van Dyke Brown print
Sheet: 98 × 80 in. (248.9 × 203.2 cm)
Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Gift of Paul and Dedrea A. Gray, 2002.93
Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago
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Exhibitions
- Selected Works from the MCA Collection: Focus on UBS 12 x 12–
- Long A color photograph shows three people standing holding rifles. One is wearing a reflective vest and ear protection, pointing their gun out into the distance to an unknown target. There is an open box next to them. The middle two people are watching the person aiming their rifle. They are wearing ear protection and are standing in front of a red SUV with the back hatch open. To the left of the center figures is a person sitting at a picnic table on a concrete slab. They are wearing an orange hat and holding their hand to their mouth while looking at the other three figures. All four people are in a remote, desert-like landscape on gravel with the sun shining from the left of the photo.
Publications
Collection
- Rashid Johnson, The New Negro Escapist Social and Athletic Club (Marcus), 2010
- Long The masculine person, shown from the torso up, is wearing a vertically striped button-down shirt, a herringbone vest, and a dark tie. The subject takes up the majority of the image, with their shoulders extending to either of the vertical edges. The two superimposed faces, slightly overlapping, have a similarly stoic expression. Both of the faces have heavy, dark eyebrows, a wide rounded nose, a closed, expressionless mouth, and are crowned by a dark, curly afro hair style. The upper left and bottom corners all appear lighter in tone, as if overexposed. Surrounding the figure are lush, palm-like plant fronds, both in the background and foreground. Some of the fronds obscure the person's shoulders on both sides of the image.
