Opening Night of Taking the White Gloves Off: A Performance Art Series in Honor of Lorraine O’Grady ‘55
When:
Thursday, Feb 08, 2024 6:30p -
7:30p
Thursday, Feb 08, 2024 6:30p -
7:30p
Where:
Collins Cinema at The Davis Museum
106 Central St.
Wellesley, MA 02481
Admission:
FREE
Hosted by:
Categories:
Art
Event website:
https://www.wellesley.edu/davismuseum/events/node/206171
Title: Dear BlaQness: emotionally nude. but BEAUTIFUL you are. [As. Is.] worthy of love.
Artist: Dominique Duroseau, she/her
Date and time: Thursday, 2/8 at 6:30pm
Location: Collins Cinema
Taking the White Gloves Off: A Performance Art Series in Honor of Lorraine O’Grady ‘55 features six multidisciplinary artists—Dominique Duroseau, M. Lamar, Tsedaye Makonnen, Nyugen E. Smith, Ayana Evans, and Eleanor Kipping—to accompany the exhibition Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And. As one of Wellesley College’s most esteemed alumnae in the arts, the Class of 1955 artist will be celebrated with a spectacular opening and symposium at the Davis Museum, a five-day artist residency at the Suzy Newhouse Center for the Humanities, and campus-wide events that will reach across all disciplines throughout the semester. The invited artists, who first convened as the performance art cohort at the Lunder Institute for American Art’s 2023 Summer Think Tank at Colby College Museum of Art, will pay tribute to O’Grady’s inspiration and legacy, with performances scheduled for February, March, and May on Wellesley’s campus.
Dominique Duroseau is a New Haven CT/ Newark NJ /Greater NY based artist born in Chicago, raised in Haiti. Duroseau’s interdisciplinary practice explores themes of racism, socio-cultural issues, racialized desirability politics and existential dehumanization — expressed through sculpture, texts, video, audio/sound, performance and photography. Past venues for her exhibitions, performances, and screenings include: PULSE Play, The Kitchen, Sculpture Center, El Museo del Barrio, A.I.R. Gallery, BronxArtSpace, Rush Arts Gallery, Smack Mellon in New York City and The Newark Museum.
Photo Credit: Lorraine O'Grady (American, born 1934). Art Is . . . (Girl Pointing), 1983/2009. Chromogenic photograph in 40 parts, 20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.64 cm). Edition of 8 plus 1 artist’s proof. © 2023 Lorraine O’Grady/Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York
