2x3 magnet with storycard. Lorraine O’Grady (American, born 1934). Family Portrait 1 (Formal, Composed), 2020. Fujiflex print, 60 × 48 in. (152.4 × 121.9 cm). Edition of 10 plus 3 artist’s proofs. © Lorraine O’Grady/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

2x3 magnet with storycard. Lorraine O'Grady (American, born 1934). Art Is . . . (Girl Pointing), 1983/2009. Chromogenic photograph in 40 parts, 20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.64 cm). Edition of 8 plus 1 artist’s proof. © Lorraine O’Grady/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

2x3 magnet with story card. Lorraine O'Grady (American, born 1934). Mlle Bourgeoise Noire celebrates with her friends, from Mlle Bourgeoise Noire Goes to the New Museum,1980–83/2009. Silver gelatin fiber photograph, 7 × 9.31 in. (17.78 × 23.65 cm). Edition of 8 plus 2 artist’s proofs. © Lorraine O’Grady/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

2x3 magnet with story card. Lorraine O'Grady (American, born 1934). Miscegenated Family Album (Sisters I), L: Nefernefruaten Nefertiti; R: Devonia Evangeline O’Grady, 1980/1994. Cibachrome photographs, 26 × 37 in. (66.04 × 93.98 cm). Edition of 8 plus 1 artist’s proof. © Lorraine O’Grady/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

The ravishing work of experimental painter Kanishka Raja. Kanishka Raja’s ravishingly patterned work, as the artist put it, “explores the intersection of representation, craft, technology, and the gaps that occur in the transmission of information.” Conceptually heady and aesthetically alluring, Raja’s I and I series combines painting with woven, scanned, printed, embroidered, and reproduced counterparts. Raja transforms a hybrid inheritance—the postcolonial confluences of an urban Indian childhood, family roots in textile manufacturing and clothing design, liberal arts and studio education in the United States, binational footing in New York and Kolkata—into an extraordinary practice, wherein strategies of variation, repetition, reversal, and mirroring converge in “composite fields that tap into oppositions—the technological versus the handmade, original versus reproduction, and neutral versus contested.” Developed to accompany the exhibition Kanishka Raja: I and I on view at the Davis Museum at Wellesley College September 12–December 15, 2019.

Published in conjunction with the exhibition Going Viral: Photography, Performance, and the Everyday (February 6 - June 7, 2020), this catalogue celebrates the generous gift of nearly 1,000 anonymous snapshot photographs from the collection of Peter J. Cohen.