#Lorraine O'Grady

[sleepynegress]

If you are curious about the artist behind my avatar, Zawe Ashton profiled her a few years back. This is Lorraine O'Grady.

#sharing more #lorraine o'grady #zawe ashton #artist #black artists #Youtube

[pizzatimesthree]

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[brooklynmuseum]

“Speaking was a demand that the work made on me, and that increasing interactions with others made on me.” ·Lorraine O’Grady

On July 28 at 7 pm, we are happy to host An Evening with Lorraine O’Grady. Over the course of the our time with the multi-hyphenate artist, we’ll meet a new performance persona of O’Grady’s, enjoy a screening of a short film documenting her performance as part of #LorraineOGradyBKM, and end in conversation with the artists and curators from @artistsspace and the Brooklyn Museum.

Learn more and get your tickets for $25 ($20 for Members). Masks are required in the Auditorium and will be available upon arrival.

🎟https://bit.ly/3IQtpYq

#Brooklyn Museum #brooklyn #museum #art #Lorraine O'Grady #event #nyc events #performance art #performance #short film #nyc #new york

[trascapades]

💐#ArtIsAWeapon

Hero!

#LorraineOGrady #MlleBourgeoiseNoire

Reposted from @marianeibrahimgallery Lorraine O'Grady for @harpersbazaarus, the Possibility Issue (April 2024): "The Audacity of Lorraine O'Grady"

"Her first solo show at Mariane Ibrahim, "The Knight, or Lancela Palm-and-Steel," opens April 10 at the gallery's Windy City flagship and will feature a character, the Knight, that was introduced in "Both/And" with a set of "announcement cards" titled "Announcement of a New Persona (Performances to Come!)”… Like so much of O’Grady’s work, the Knight combines her predilection for mischief with her continued focus on hybridity and the constraints and contradictions of identity.”

Lorraine shares, "I always believed. The question was, did anybody else believe?...But I knew I was right."

A special thanks to @samiranasr for the support!

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Story by Soraya Nadia McDonald

Photography by Collier Schorr

Styling by Samira Nasr

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#marianeibrahimgallery #marianeibrahim #lorraineogrady #harpersbazaar #samiranasr #theknight #chicago #expochicago #BlackGirlArtGeeks

#MarianeIbrahim #Lorraine O'Grady #BlackWomenArtists #BlackWomenGallerists #ArtHero #HarpersBazaar #ArtIsAWeapon

[iishtar]

[M]odernism was an encounter between the self and the other. But since everyone is a self, and everyone is an other, modernism had to contain everyone’s responses to the encounter.

The First and the Last of the Modernists (2010), Lorraine O’Grady [x]

#modernism #charles baudelaire #lorraine o'grady

[afrotumble]

'Comeback? I Haven't Ever Been There': Artist Lorraine O'Grady on Why Her Retrospective, at Age 86, Feels Like Her First Big Break

Interviewer: You worked for the government, you worked as a translator, you volunteered for Jesse Jackson, you worked as a rock-and-roll critic for the Village Voice. You really just took in a lot of different colors for your palette to paint with later.

Lorraine: They were all worlds that I felt comfortable in. That’s the advantage of having to fit in everywhere. I’m sure that most people who listen to rock music have things they want to say about it, but I was just able to say whatever I wanted to and get paid.

#lorraine o'grady

[cultho]

rant about lotk that i suddenly remembered

totally valid if you enjoy the series or the points im abt to mention, these just b my opinions

worldbuilding / aesthetics i distinctly as a just started middle schooler being disappointed by the designs 'modernized' world i'd so come to love. ie, the western/european industrial revolution influences. sure, historically, due to colonization imperialism etc from western powers that's how a lot of it happened (to my understanding); but for me there was no 'europe' equivalent in the atla world,,,, so like where would those visual influences b coming from??? tbh it's less even 'oh it doesnt make sense in-world' but more just wanting to imagine what modernized asian aesthetics would look like sans western influence. i'd also hate to equate 'modernization' with 'westernization'. Perhaps sth like an AsianFuturism. for me it felt like a shame that the creators couldn't imagine more tech advanced asian cultures without the influence of the western world. This was also the desire of a younger me, pre-Asian American media boom (think starting somewhere around crazy rich asians, EEAAO, Michelle Yeoh, etc), back when i almost literally never seen ppl who looked like me portrayed meaningfully not even gonna lie i thought the giant statue of aang was cringe LMAO,,, i was like bro this isn't manhattan like hello????? like to me if aang were to be memorialized in world that's not how it would look.

2. explaining too much/avatar wan's arc again, completely valid if you enjoyed this part. i just personally didn't care for it.

i felt like it was explaining sth that didn't need to be explained, and then explained in an overly literal way that didn't add to the overall work. for me spirits/spiritualism/the avatar were a deeply ingrained given part of the world. the avatar especially was just a built-in self-regulation mechanism (essentially a guaranteed diplomat who has had to live/experience cultures of the 4 dominant nations)

then the way the first avatar was explained felt overly literal; the world of spirits/spiritualism became just a gigantamax pokemon fight - oh, who's the bigger spirit??? will they have the muscles to beat the other meanie spirit????? rather than spirits being portrayed as sth just beyond mortal understanding, ineffable & transdimensional, fickle beings in their own right. Even the spirits who appear frightening or uncomfortable weren't portrayed as necessarily 'bad,' they were just spirits, and with that came with their own moral codes that human perceptions didn't strictly apply to. and like also the raava/vaatu dichotomy was stupid. it reverts to (tired) white = good and black = bad tropes. and also yin/yang DOES NOT mean good/bad LIKE PLEASE. in general i feel like a lot of the tlok plot points came from a (unecessary imo) need to explain everything, make sure everything was black&white (ha), either good or bad, rather than the complex morality a lot of OG atla writing portrayed and further implied. Reminds me of famous concept artist Lorraine O'Grady's essay 'Olympia's Maid' (ctrl F "both: and" to jump to the sections im referencing), critiquing Western 'either:or'ism that struggles to accept the multiplicity of "both:and"ism having watched atla, my questions weren't 'oh how did the avatar come to be?' i was more curious to see different corners of the world, different expressions of the cultures of the four nations (we've seen the swamp benders, the sun warriors, what else was out there? SHOUTOUT THIS RAD ART). i also rlly vibed with a lot of fan writings, such as what may have happened to any underground air nomad diaspora. i wish they focused on using bending/atla world mechanics as vehicles to allegorize concepts & human experiences rather than wasting spending all their time explaining those mechanics to death.

and yes im aware the show is made by western creators for western audiences (and the four element system is western, by contrast for example chinese theology (?) concerns 5 elements - wood, metal, earth, water, fire) and yes OG atla definitely had a lot of flaws, but for me these were the points where i stopped enjoying tlok ykwim

#atla #a:tla #essay #personal essay #tlok #tlok korra #avatar: the last airbender #the legend of korra #and yes im tagging it under the show titles!!!!

[pagansphinx]

Édouard Manet (French, 1832-1883) • Olympia • 1863 • Musée d'Orsay, Paris

In Lorraine O'Grady's essay titled "Olympia's Maid: Reclaiming Black Female Subjectivity",[16] she asserts, "Olympia's maid, like all other 'peripheral Negroes'", is a robot conveniently made to disappear into the background drapery. While the confrontational gaze of Olympia is often referenced as the pinnacle of defiance toward patriarchy, the oppositional gaze of Olympia's maid is ignored; she is part of the background with little to no attention given to the critical role of her presence.

O'Grady points out that we know she represents 'Jezebel and Mammy' "and best of all, she is not a real person", rather she is object to the objectified and excluded from sexual difference according to Freudian theory.[16] While Olympia looks directly at the viewer, her maid, too, is looking back.[17] In her essay "Mammy, Jezebel, Sapphire and Their Homegirls: Developing an Oppositional Gaze toward the Images of Black Women", Catherine West concludes that by claiming an oppositional gaze we can identify, criticize, resist and transform these and other oppressive images of Black women.

#art #painting #fine art #art history #19th century art #impressionism #realism #modern art #manet #french artist #art nude #women in paintings #black people in artworks #bannedonpinterest #art critique

[akonoadham]

Lorraine O'Grady / “Art Is…”

[rob-art]

Lorraine O'Grady: Art Is...

#youtube

[martyr-eater]

🦇 happy world goth day 🦇

art by lorraine o'grady, from her series "cutting out the new york times"

#rare martyr eater sighting #few years back

[51316120825]

FLAG (2021) by Lorraine O'Grady

#myupload #lorraine o grady

[skowhegan]

Sadie Barnette (A '18)  Camille Billops (F '03) Lorraine O'Grady (F '99, '03) Betye Saar (F '85, '14) Carrie Mae Weems (F '00) Rock My Soul II Eva Livijn Futura Gallery Stockholm, Sweden September 28–November 27, 2022

[brooklynmuseum]

Did you know July is National Anti-Boredom Month? Our galleries, community events and education programming range from low-key to lively, but boredom just isn’t on our radar. If you need inspiration for fun and exciting events happening during the month of July, we’ve got you covered!

Learn more about these events and more: https://bit.ly/34QgwKI

The Community Screening of "Aftershock" is supported by Onyx Collective and ABC News

#Brooklyn Museum #brooklyn #museum #event #nyc #Baseera Khan #Lorraine O'Grady #nyc events #things to see #things to do #art

[iishtar]

Comparisons to Charles [Baudelaire] inevitably suggested themselves. . . the divine self-belief, the ambiguous sexuality, the fanatic devotion to craft, the drugs, the unironic aspiration to greatness, the flamboyant clothing and makeup.

The First and the Last of the Modernists (2010), Lorraine O’Grady [x]

#charles baudelaire #michael jackson #art #culture #pop culture #lorraine o'grady

[alexphil323]

Lorraine O'Grady

Art Is. . . (Dancer in Grass Skirt), , 1983/2009

Alexander Gray Associates