Art
Landscape (Western Hemisphere)
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The First and the Last of the Modernists
In The First and the Last of the Modernists, an installation for the 2010 Whitney Biennial, two of O’Grady’s careers—rock music critic and avant-garde artist—met unexpectedly. She’d taught the work of Charles Baudelaire for two decades at SVA.
Persistent
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...
Studies for Flowers of Evil and Good
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...
Miscegenated Family Album
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...
Body Is the Ground of My Experience
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 ...
Art Is. . .
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 ...
The Black and White Show
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...
Rivers, First Draft, or The Woman in Red
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...
Nefertiti/Devonia Evangeline
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...
Mlle Bourgeoise Noire
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...
Cutting Out the New York Times
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...
