THE Anxiety AND Ecstasy OF RASHID JOHNSON.

There are scores of late Black artists who were all but discarded by the art world during their lifetimes - the figurative painter Bob Thompson, the Abstract Expressionist Ed Clark, and color-field painter Sam Gilliam among them - whose reputations Johnson has now helped to resurrect. Even while still in college, Johnson was eager to establish himself in the Chicago art scene, and once showed up unannounced at a nearby gallery he heard was having a group show, with a portfolio of images he had made. Paul met Johnson through Maverick Carter, the sports-marketing businessman, and has since purchased eight of Johnson's paintings, in addition to works by Lauren Halsey, Derrick Adams, and Amoako Boafo. Features ONE WAY TO measure an artist's success on the island of Manhattan is real estate, and by that metric, among many others, Rashid Johnson has been very successful. [Extracted from the article]