I Am Amen Tee

PRODUCT DETAILS Material100% Cotton, 6ozSize Chart Referential Artwork Image courtesy of Hank Willis Thomas and Baltimore Museum of Art HANK WILLIS THOMASI Am A Man, 2009Liquitex on canvas 25 1/4 x 19 1/4 x 2 1/4 in. 55 ½" x 228 x 2 1/4 inches installed. 25 1/4 x 19 1/4 x 2 1/4 per panel Design first presented here:"Pitch Blackness", solo exhibiton at Jack Shainman Gallery, 2009Artist Statement For this painting, the artist was specifically inspired by a particular photograph from the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Strike, where a large group of black men assembled with protest posters bearing the same message and nearly identical typeface. The artist has also created many other version of this painting that play with the orientation and wording of the text (ie: A Man I Am, I Be a Man, I Am Many, I Am The Man, etc.), reflecting historically on the variations that have been used before, and speculating on how they may continue in the future. Of this series the artist recalls:“I was bor