Name: lorraine-ogrady-talk
Start: 2012-03-15T18:00:00-05:00
End: 2012-03-15T19:30:00-05:00

Included in the exhibition This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s, Lorraine O’Grady is an artist and critic whose installations, performances, and texts address issues of diaspora, hybridity, and black female subjectivity. The New York Times in 2006 called her “one of the most interesting American conceptual artists around.” In O’Grady’s work, the idea tends to come first, and then a medium is employed to best execute it. Although its intellectual content is rigorous and political, the work is generally marked by unapologetic beauty and elegance. O’Grady discusses her practice, with a particular focus on her work from the 1980s.

Exhibition

This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s

Feb 10–Jun 02, 2012

Season support for the MCA lecture and conversation series is generously provided by The Albert Pick, Jr. Fund.

Support for MCA lectures has been provided in part by Blanche Koffler, Altheimer & Gray, Aon Corporation, Mr. and Mrs. Allan Harris, Ione Kanne, Renee Logan, Leah and Ralph Wanger, Lenore Wexler, Ellen Stone Belic, James H. Stone, and Cynthia Raskin.

Air transportation is provided by American Airlines, the Official Airline of the Museum of Contemporary Art.

This talk is sponsored in collaboration with Columbia College Chicago through Critical Encounters, the Departments of Art + Design and Photography, and the Ellen Stone Belic Institute for the Study of Women and Gender in the Arts and Media; and with Emerge, a donor affinity group that supports the education, exhibition, and acquisition programs of the MCA.