Rashid Johnson

Rashid Johnson's Surrender Paintings are the latest iteration of his Anxious Men series, exploring the rise of anxiety and its connection to the larger societal angst around global immigration, police brutality etc. In this piece, Johnson applies multiple layers of oil paint, and then removing them to reveal the layers underneath. Johnson says of these washed-out, ghostly paintings: “They were cathartic, not simple - but every time I made them I felt alive, and unburdened.”