Lyle Ashton Harris

Known for self-portraits which explore issues of performance, identity, family, gender, masculinity, and race, Lyle Ashton Harris here presents a new series of 20 x 24 in. Polaroids featuring himself in a variety of loaded guises: Billie Holiday, Josephine Baker, and the 'Boxer.' Well-known writer and performer Anna Deavere Smith has written a powerful, lyrical literary text that explores her relationship to the photographs and the artist.