Claudette Johnson: Presence review - subtle swipes at the exploitative modern masters

Courtauld Gallery, LondonThe artist brilliantly questions depictions of non-white figures by such revered painters as Gauguin and Picasso - but there's a quiet power to her new work that leaves theory behind In Claudette Johnson's large drawings of Black women and men, faces and bodies hold you, frozen in poses that seem more significant than words can say, as if each spontaneous expression or gesture were at the same time a studied symbolic act. Reclining Figure, which is around two and a half ...