Reading Signs: Jasper Johns and Glenn Ligon in Print
Wesleyan University’s Pruzan Art Center, the new art venue in the center of campus, will highlight prints from the Davison Art Collection by Jasper Johns and Glenn Ligon ’82, Hon. ’12. The exhibition will open on Wednesday, September 18, 2024 at 4:30 p.m. and will be on display through Wednesday, December 11, 2024.
Throughout their printed works, Glenn Ligon '82, Hon. '12 and Jasper Johns demand and disrupt the act of reading. Both artists frequently discompose the visual elements of language and communication: targets drip and letters smudge. Johns and Ligon exploit the processes of printing—which entail contact and separation, mirroring and reversals—to parse the distances between signs and their meanings, and also to address the mechanics of looking on the part of the spectator. This exhibition will feature etchings and lithographs by both artists as well as screenprints by Johns in the Davison Art Collection.
Pruzan Art Center, Goldrach Gallery
New location between Wesleyan’s Olin Memorial Library and Frank Center for Public Affairs
238 Church Street, Middletown, Connecticut
Admission
Exhibition will closed Oct. 19-Oct. 22 and Nov. 25-Dec. 2.
