Adrian Piper at John Weber.(New York, New York)(Review of Exhibitions)(Brief Article)

From: Art in America | Date: March 1, 1997| Author: Goodman, Jonathan | Copyright information

Conceptual artist Adrian Piper's provocative pieces include work such as Self-Portrait Exaggerating My Negroid Features (1981) and My Calling Card #1 (1986); the latter announces Piper's racial identity, and is meant to be given out as "a reactive guerrilla performance for dinners and cocktail parties," in response to the casual racist remark. She has relentlessly confronted the unconscious racism of the polite liberal circles in which she has traveled. But this show was deeply perso...

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