Looking for a Headdress Archives

Small Axe, 2025

Andil Gosine shares with Small Axe his deeply personal experiences with Lorraine O’Grady, a singular force in his life whose influence has shaped his thinking and artistic practice since 2010. Reflecting on their years of collaboration, Gosine begins his tribute by recalling the creation of the video Landscape (Western Hemisphere) for the 2010 Buffalo art biennial Beyond/In Western New York, using it as a lens to explore O’Grady’s unique creative process.

Barbara London, 2021

Independent curator Barbara London interviews Lorraine O’Grady on her involvement at the gallery Just Above Midtown, speaking in detail about her work “Art Is…” and what comes next for the artist following her retrospective Both/And and the Covid-19 pandemic. London shares her enthusiasm for O’Grady’s new performance persona pictured in her work “Announcement Card (Seated Palmate).”

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Art in America, 2015

Cathy Lebowitz on "En Mas'" — Leibowitz discusses O'Grady's "Looking for a Headdress" video and installation as a mimicry of the relation of the diaspora to its originary culture and indicates that its informal density accomplishes a great deal efficiently.

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