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Cutting Out the New York Times
other media 1977
a series of 26 "cut-out" or "found" newspaper poems made by O'Grady on successive Sundays, from June 5 to November 20, 1977. They were first exhibited to the public at Daniel Reich Temp... more
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Mlle Bourgeoise Noire
performance 1980-83
O'Grady's first public performance, remains the artist's best known work. The persona first appeared in 1980 under the Futurist dictum that art has the power to change the world and was in... more
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Nefertiti/Devonia Evangeline
performance 1980
O'Grady's second performance, premiered at Just Above Midtown Gallery on October 31, 1980. In an unexpected turn of events, just one month after Mlle Bourgeoise Noire's invasion of the avant-garde gallery... more
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Rivers, First Draft
performance 1982
a one-time only performance created by O'Grady for "Art Across the Park," curated by Gilbert Coker and Horace Brockington. It was performed in the Loch, a northern section of Central Park, on... more
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The Black and White Show
other media 1983
an exhibition curated by O'Grady at the black-owned Kenkeleba Gallery on East 2nd Street, NYC, April 22 - May 22, 1983, was a conceptual art piece employing other artists' work to make its point... more
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Art Is. . .
performance 1983
a joyful performance in Harlem's African-American Day Parade, September 1983, was, from the point of view of the work's connection with its audience, O'Grady's most immediately successful piece. Its impetus... more
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Body Is the Ground of My Experience
black-and-white photomontages, varied sizes, 1991
BodyGround, shorthand for Body Is the Ground of My Experience, refers to the photomontages produced by O’Grady for her first one-person exhibit, at INTAR Gallery, NYC, Jan 21–Feb 22, 1991. The phrase doesn’t...
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Miscegenated Family Album
photo installation 1980/94
O'Grady's 1994 photo-installation of cibachrome diptychs, is aesthetically perhaps her most complete and satisfying work. It had a long gestation period. Its 16 diptychs were selected from... more
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Flowers of Evil and Good (studies)
photo installation, work in process 1998-
continues O'Grady's attempt to engage and comprehend the self through the study of cultural history, and vice versa. Her historic approach to postmodernist concerns (O'Grady won the Sons of... more
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Persistent
other media 2007
project for Artpace, San Antonio, is her first video installation. With a generously funded residency, she was able to experiment and, as a "reactive artist," she chose to make herself open to the... more
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The First and the Last of the Modernists
photo installation 2010
In The First and the Last of the Modernists, her installation for the 2010 Whitney Biennial, two of O’Grady’s careers—rock music critic and avant-garde artist—met unexpectedly. more
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