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Dracula and the Artist (Dracula Vanquished by Art)

1991, printed 2019
(American, 1934-)
Diptych, archival pigment print
Image: 101.6 x 127 cm (40 x 50 in.); Framed: 103.8 x 129.2 x 4.4 cm (40 7/8 x 50 7/8 x 1 3/4 in.)
Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund 2022.90.b
Location: not on view
This artwork is known to be under copyright.

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Lorraine O’Grady was an intelligence analyst for the US Departments of Labor and State, a translator, and a rock critic before becoming an artist.

Description

Dracula addresses Black women’s relationship to their hair. In the left half of this diptych, or two-part piece, an artist with broken and unkempt hair stares at a flight of combs, their broken teeth evoking vampires’ fangs. In the right panel, the artist focuses on making her art, managing to accept herself as she is and overcome Dracula’s erotic allure.
Dracula and the Artist (Dracula Vanquished by Art)

Dracula and the Artist (Dracula Vanquished by Art)

1991, printed 2019

Lorraine O'Grady

(American, 1934-)

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