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Salon 94

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Lyle Ashton Harris, Migration Times, 2020, Ghanaian cloth with sutured selvedge, two dye sublimation prints on aluminum, and ceramic fragment, Gift of Funds from Agnes Gund, the Collectors Committee, David Dechman and Michel Mercure, Courtesy of the artist and Salon 94, New York, 2024.55.1

Migration Times

Lyle Ashton Harris · 2020 · Ghanaian cloth with sutured selvedge, two dye sublimation prints on aluminum, and ceramic fragment ·  Accession ID  2024.55.1

A woman sitting on a floor with her body angled to our left nearly fills this stylized, vertical painting. Her skin is light tan in some areas, as around her eyes, chest, one hand, and the leg and foot we can see, while what seems like brown paint creeps up her neck to drip upward around her cheeks and onto her forehead. The brown also drips down onto her cleavage, along one arm toward her wrist, and down the shin of her leg. Her right hand, on our left, is entirely brown. She holds her long hair up over her head with her brown hand in front of her face, looking at it with blue eyes and touching it with the other hand. Her hair is blond with dark roots at her scalp, created with long, parallel brushstrokes. Her long nails and curling lips are scarlet red. She wears an emerald-green robe trimmed with white fur and a long strand of pearls that drape over her left arm, closer to us. She sits on a cushion decorated with brown koi fish and stylized blue waves of water, but the exact arrangement of her legs is unclear. A stack of patterned pillows is piled behind her to our left, and comes up to her shoulder. Red circular forms behind her head are painted slate blue with deep brown shadows and red highlights. The words “BACK AND FORTH” are repeated in rows, written in capital yellow letters edged with red, filling the background. Two Japanese characters are painted in red near the lower right corner.
Rozeal. (formerly known as iona rozeal brown), afro.died, T., 2011, acrylic, pen, ink, marker, and graphite on birch plywood panel, Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase with funds provided by the Women's Committee of the Corcoran Gallery of Art), 2015.19.243

afro.died, T.

Rozeal. (formerly known as iona rozeal brown) · 2011 · acrylic, pen, ink, marker, and graphite on birch plywood panel ·  Accession ID  2015.19.243