Art in Focus: Hank Willis Thomas
About This Event
Brooklyn-based conceptual artist Hank Willis Thomas, whose work interrogates identity, history and popular culture, is featured in Art in Focus at Rockefeller Center. The presentation situates his investigations of representation and visual rhetoric within a major public setting, prompting consideration of how images and commercial contexts shape collective memory and civic space.
About the Artist
Hank Willis Thomas
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Hank Willis Thomas is a Brooklyn-based conceptual artist whose work examines identity, history, and the visual language of advertising and popular culture. In *Art in Focus: Hank Willis Thomas* at Rockefeller Center, his investigations of representation move into a highly public Midtown setting, where images circulate as quickly as the people.