Lorraine O'Grady :: Art General

A R T C O N T E N T S

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...more

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

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

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

	A R T C O N T E N T S
	TITLE Cutting Out the New York Times other media 1977		TITLE
	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

	TITLE Mlle Bourgeoise Noire performance 1980-83		TITLE
	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

	TITLE Nefertiti/Devonia Evangeline performance 1980		TITLE
	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

	TITLE Rivers, First Draft performance 1982		TITLE
	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

	TITLE The Black and White Show other media 1983		TITLE
	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

	TITLE Art Is. . . performance 1983		TITLE
	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

	TITLE BodyGround photo installation 1991		TITLE
	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...more

	TITLE Miscegenated Family Album photo installation 1980/94		TITLE
	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

	TITLE Flowers of Evil and Good photo installation, work in process 1998-		TITLE
	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

	TITLE Persistent other media 2007		TITLE
	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		TITLE