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The New York Times Style Magazine, 2021

Kate Guadagnino sits down with O’Grady to learn about her day-to-day as a concept-based artist. She speaks honestly about her process of making art by returning to old projects with fresh eyes, sometimes years later, while also including more personal details like her favorite films and her life at Westbeth. The artist notes that “having come to art later in life, [...] I’m out there to make the best possible work and as close to a masterpiece as I can. [...] What I’m trying to do is get as much of myself expressed as possible because there is so little out there that allows for an understanding of the fullness of the Black mind or soul.”

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Artforum, 2018

Lorraine O’Grady’s long engagement with the diptych comes into focus in her collage series Cutting Out CONYT (1977/2017), a radical distillation of her earliest work, Cutting Out the New York Times. Reworked into what she calls “haiku diptychs,” the series is featured in two solo exhibitions this fall—at Alexander Gray Associates in New York and at the SCAD Museum of Art in Savannah—as well as in her solo show at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

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