Description

The Brooklyn Museum will present the first retrospective of work by Lorraine O’Grady (b. 1934), a seminal artist who has devoted her career to exploring the representational potential of black female subjectivity. The curators are engaging O’Grady, now in her eighties, in the exploration of her four-decade career. The exhibition will feature 14 multi-object projects, ranging from collage, found-text works, and photography, to socially-engaged conceptual and performance art. A series of accompanying interventions in the museum’s galleries of Egyptian, European, and American art will explore the resonance of O’Grady’s works, including her powerful Miscegenated Family Album, in the context of objects in the museum’s permanent collection. A tour is planned.