Hank Willis Thomas
Untitled (Godspeed)
Lot Closed
June 7, 03:46:00 AM GMT
Estimate
40,000 - 45,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Hank Willis Thomas
b. 1976
Untitled (Godspeed)
Executed in 2024.
UV and Silkscreen Print on Retroreflective Vinyl and mylar mounted on Dibond
Diam: 24 in. (61 cm)
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Courtesy of the artist, and Pace Gallery
Hank Willis Thomas (b. 1976, Plainfield, NJ; lives in Brooklyn, NY) is a conceptual artist who employs a mixed-media approach to examinations of perspective, identity, and consumer culture. Untitled (Godspeed) is made with retroreflective vinyl, often used in roadside signs. The latent images within these retroreflective works often reveal a sea of faces, captured from historical images of protests across the globe, both personalizing these movements and showing the human scale of the forces of change. Thomas’s work has been presented at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. His work has been acquired by over seventy institutions, including High Museum of Art, Atlanta; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; and National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia. Among his many accolades are the US Department of State Medal of Arts, the AIMIA | AGO Photography Prize, and honorary doctorates from the Maryland Institute of Art and the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts.