Joseph Henry

Joseph Henry is a research associate in the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Just what is individual about an artist’s practice? In art talk we are used to possessive locutions: your practice engages, my practice deals with.

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Fränzi in front of Carved Chair, 1910. Oil on canvas, 28 x 19 ½ inches. Courtesy Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid. © Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid.
On its surface, Redress (2015) by Lucas Michael refers to nothing specific. The sculpture consists of three neon bands shaped into an open rectangle with the lower line missing; the bands all emit a searing light red hue.
Angela Dufresne, The real Allegory of my artistic and moral life, 2014. Oil on canvas, 84 x 132 in. © Angela Dufresne, Courtesy the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art.

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