Rashid Johnson ''Untitled Anxious Drawing' (2017) oil on cotton rag, 82.8 × 63.5 cm (32 ½ × 25 in)
“As an interdisciplinary artist thinking about drawing, one of the aspects of my kind of post-medium relationship to art is that I really do appreciate each and every approach to art making within the context of its autonomy,” Rashid Johnson, a New York-based, Chicago-born African-American conceptual artist, told me during a Zoom interview. “Drawing for me is drawing, and I love it and appreciate it in that space. I feel similarly about filmmaking, painting, sculpture, performance, picture making, and photography. All of these spaces have an autonomy, they don't meld together for me, necessarily. I really see them as individual pursuits that I tackle, instead of considering them kind of an amalgamated strategy.”
