{"id":30852,"date":"2018-02-23T02:00:31","date_gmt":"2018-02-23T10:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?p=30852"},"modified":"2018-02-20T15:24:42","modified_gmt":"2018-02-20T23:24:42","slug":"lorraine-ogrady","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/23\/lorraine-ogrady\/","title":{"rendered":"lorraine o’grady"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

This is a peek into “Miscegenated Family Album”<\/em><\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0Lorraine O’Grady.\u00a0<\/a>She chose 16 diptychs {7 shown here}<\/em> from 65 image pairs of slides – comparing her sister Devonia, Nefertiti, and their families – that she had projected behind a performance piece she did in\u00a01980. Lorraine retired the performance in 1988, but luckily she allowed the work to live on through this gorgeous album that she assembled in 1994.\u00a0Amazing. But wait, I can’t stop there… I have to include her insanely inspiring bio too:<\/p>\n

Born in Boston in 1934 to West Indian parents, O\u2019Grady came to art late.\u00a0Mlle Bourgeoise Noire\u00a0and\u00a0Nefertiti\/Devonia Evangeline\u00a0in 1980 were her first public art works. After majoring in economics and Spanish literature at Wellesley, she studied in the fiction program of the Iowa Writers Workshop and had several careers: as an intelligence analyst for the U.S. government, a literary and commercial translator with her own agency, and for a time as a rock critic for\u00a0The Village Voice\u00a0and\u00a0Rolling Stone. Ultimately, this broad background contributed to a distanced and critical view of the art world when she entered it and to an unusually eclectic attitude toward art-making. In O\u2019Grady\u2019s work, the idea tends to come first, and then a medium is employed to best execute it. The work\u2019s intellectual content is rigorous and political, but its form is often characterized by heightened beauty and elegance.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is a peek into “Miscegenated Family Album”\u00a0by\u00a0Lorraine O’Grady.\u00a0She chose 16 diptychs {7 shown here} from 65 image pairs of slides – comparing her sister Devonia, Nefertiti, and their families – that she had projected behind a performance piece she did in\u00a01980. Lorraine retired the performance in 1988, but luckily she allowed the work to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[269,3,43],"tags":[829,203],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30852"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30852"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30855,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30852\/revisions\/30855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}