A kaleidoscopic composition of cracked color and line, Rashid Johnson’s ‘Untitled Broken Men’ (2023) is a new, large-scale addition to the artist’s celebrated Broken Men series. These works evolved out of Johnson’s Anxious Men and Anxious Audiences in which frenzied, abstracted faces are rendered in black soap and wax on a grid of white tiles. With his complex mosaic paintings, Johnson pushes the anxiety of the figures to breaking point, both metaphorically and physically.  Whereas Johnson’s Anxious Men series is characterized by faces scratched into the pictorial surface in a kind of ‘drawing through erasure,’ his Broken Men begin with renderings of human figures composed predominantly of multi-colored smashed tiles. Within the bustling composition, a wild and agitated face explodes in a storm of bold hues, errant drips of wax, splashes of paint and splintered surfaces. Whether portrayed alone or in groups these broken figures speak to collective and individual identities caught in the midst of shifting social realities.