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Artworks
Glenn Ligon
Warm Broad Glow (reversed), 2008Photogravure etching24 3/4 x 35 1/3 inches
62.9 x 89.8 cmEdition of 35$ 15,000.00Further images
This print from 2008 is derived from a photograph of Ligon’s first neon sculpture Warm Broad Glow (2005). As the title of this photogravure etching suggests, the image of the...This print from 2008 is derived from a photograph of Ligon’s first neon sculpture Warm Broad Glow (2005). As the title of this photogravure etching suggests, the image of the work is “reversed” because in the original sculpture the front of the neon tubing is painted black, such that light from the neon only emanates from behind. The print’s image is the negative: the letters are light – the background black, and through this poetic inversion Ligon achieves an image of a black glow.
The phrase “Negro Sunshine” that is employed in this work originates from Gertrude Stein’s 1909 novella Melanctha, in which Stein describes “the warm broad glow of negro sunshine.” The quotation is an iconic motif within Ligon’s oeuvre.4of 4
