Black+and+White

Date: 1993
 * [[image:https://s3.amazonaws.com/saam.media/files/styles/x_large/s3/images/2014/2014.16A-FF_1a.jpg?itok=QXhYGHd4 width="353" height="224" link="@https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/black-white-86386"]] || Title: **Black and White**

Artist: **Byron Kim** Born: La Jolla, California 1961 Artist: **Glenn Ligo**n Born: New York, New York 1960

Medium: oil on wood panels Dimension: overall: 43 × 71 in. (109.2 × 180.3 cm) each panel: 10 × 8 in. (25.4 × 20.3 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of the C.K. Williams Family Foundation, Pamela K. and William A. Royall, Jr., Jane and James H. Cohan, Mihail Lari and Scott Murray, Aimee and Robert Lehrman, Home Front Communications, and museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment© 1993

Accession: 2014.16A-FF || Black & White is a collaboration between Byron Kim and Glenn Ligon, both of whom were struck by the limited pink-white range of "flesh-colored" paint available in art stores. In response, Kim, who is Korean American, painted sixteen panels of the pinkish flesh tones and Ligon, who is African American, painted sixteen panels using various black pigments. Arranged in an austere grid, Black & White elegantly underscores racial privilege.
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