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At 89, the eternally punk-rock conceptual artist still gets a kick out of crashing art-world parties. Only now she’s the guest of honor.
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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