NYAB Event - Lorraine O'Grady "Miscegenated Family Album"

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At Alexander Gray Associates
Media: Photography

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Alexander Gray Associates presents Lorraine OʼGradyʼs iconic series, The Miscegenated Family Album (1980/94). Since the early 1980s, O'Grady has challenged class, racial and gender ideologies in performance and photo-based installations. These works combine both opposition to philosophies of division and exclusion and humanist studies of women throughout history. OʼGrady describes her approach as “presenting hybridized notions of aesthetics and identity to rediagram the politics of diaspora.”

Miscegenated Family Album is Lorraine O'Grady's 1994 photo-installation of cibachrome diptychs. Originating from her 1980 performance work, Nefertiti/Devonia Evangeline, this 16-part photographic series juxtaposes appropriated images from OʼGradyʼs family history with images of iconic Ancient Egyptian sculptures. The image pairs draw uncanny aesthetic parallels, while weaving together narratives that connect personal stories with historical events.
The installation has appeared in exhibitions at numerous venues, including The Art Institute of Chicago; the Davis Museum and Cultural Center at Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA; Wadsworth Atheneum
Museum of Art, Hartford, CT; and the Louisiana Museum for Moderne Kunst, Denmark. The exhibition at Alexander Gray Associates will be the first time the entire series has been shown in New York.

[Image: Lorraine O'Grady "Sisters I" (1980/1994) Cibachrome print 20" x 16" Edition of 8 with 1 AP ]

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