HANK WILLIS THOMAS "AFTER IDENTITY, WHAT?", 2011 Harold Town Drawing to the absurd or banal

to the absurd or banal to the highly menacing:

evoking an awkward youngster from the 1940's or 50's

resulting in paintings with great impasto and a variety of textures and surfaces

and Art Gallery of Ontario

HANK WILLIS THOMAS "AFTER IDENTITY, WHAT?", 2011 Harold Town Drawing to the absurd or banalHank Willis Thomas (b. 1976) is an American conceptual artist renowned for his thought provoking works that examine the intersection of race, identity, and commodity in pop culture. Trained as a photographer, Thomas' oeuvre is steeped with references of visual culture in America. Through this lens, the artist challenges and dismantles the commodification of Black bodies by subverting ubiquitous iconography, such as logos and source images, that