Post-black* artist Rashid Johnson is most known for his socio-political photography, though in recent years he has created a series of sculptures and installations. For instance, in Coupe d'état (2012), Johnson created reliquary-like objects, installations, and wall-based artworks and placed them within an expansive gallery setting. According to the press release from David Kordansky Gallery, Coup d'état "…examines the neuroses of power that accompany established regimes of all kinds. In art, as in governmental structures, the concentration of power allows for stability on the one hand and the potential for overthrow on the other. The ways in which these themes are resonant throughout many interdependent spheres––from the personal to the patently political––find formal parallels in the mutable threshold between painting and sculpture, and in the variety of marks that animate Johnson's work…"
*Post-black art refers to a category of contemporary African American Art. The term is said of been coined in the 1990s, thigh the phrase is noted to of become popular after the Freestyle exhibition at the Studio Museum in Harlem in 2001 (info via)
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