Extract brings together aquatint and photogravure, combining two ways of carrying tone and imagery onto paper. Its small image sits within a larger sheet, giving the surrounding space a role in the experience of looking. Published in 2021, the print belongs to Glenn Ligon’s sustained investigation of how images and language change through reproduction, and how meaning can emerge through both visibility and obscurity.
Catalogue record and images from the Joseph Clark Collection. Rights in the work remain with the artist or their estate.
