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Alexander Gray Associates, 2008

Lorraine O’Grady’s Miscegenated Family Album (1994) is a 16-part photo-installation that pairs images from her family history with iconic Ancient Egyptian sculptures. Originating from her 1980 performance Nefertiti/Devonia Evangeline, the diptychs draw striking parallels between personal memory and historical narrative. Shown widely at institutions including the Art Institute of Chicago and the Wadsworth Atheneum, its presentation at Alexander Gray Associates marked the first full showing of the series in New York.

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Johanna Burton, 2008

Miscegenated Family Album, Artforum Magazine — In Artforum's first review of an O'Grady solo exhibit, Burton sensitively parses the "uneasy symmetry" of the Miscegenated Family Album installation at Alexander Gray Associates, NY.

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Modern Painters, 2008

Miscegenated Family Album, at Alexander Gray Associates, NYC — Discussion of framing as a technique of meaning in O’Grady’s conceptual photo-installation.

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Holland Cotter, 2008

Miscegenated Family Album, at Alexander Gray Associates, NY — The first New York Times review of a solo show by O’Grady. Lead review in the “Art in Review” section, with a photo of “Sisters I.”

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PS1 newspaper interview, 2008

Abbreviated version of a WPS1 radio chat with curator Connie Butler. Published in the P.S.1 Newspaper Special Edition for “WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution,” Winter/Spring, 2008, P.S.1–MOMA, Long Island City, NY.

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Art Institute of Chicago, 2008

Wall Text, Miscegenated Family Album — James Rondeau, curator of contemporary art at the first museum to purchase the Miscegenated Family Album installation, wrote a model wall text to introduce the work to general audiences in the Permanent Collection gallery it shared with Felix Gonzalez-Torres.

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WPS1 chat with Connie Butler, 2008

Recorded by Art Radio WPS1, available online at clocktower.org — Full transcript of a 45-minute conversation between Lorraine O’Grady and curator Connie Butler in WPS1 Art Radio’s broadcast studios two weeks before the WACK! opening at PS1–MOMA, Long Island City, NY.

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