She Number One

Barbara Chase-Riboud

1972

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A sculptural installation that comprises a 4 x 8 foot section of commercial lattice, painted flat black and leaned vertically against the wall. A large framed black and white photograph hangs on the lattice; its image (of a girl and a kitten) is printed in negative. Placed on the floor in front of the lattice are a pair of sneakers, an unglazed ceramic goblet, and a wicker chair that has been painted white.
An enormous and complex multi-figure painting set in an African-American beauty salon/beauty academy. Mirrors in the painting are outlined in glitter, which Marshall applies to the surface in a gel medium. The painting’s unstretched canvas surface has grommets running along its outer perimeter. The painting hangs on screws threaded through the grommets. The composition ends just short of the support’s outer edges.
Railway Track, Tabaimo, lithograph
Bird of Paradise, Salvador Dali, color lithograph