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Rachel
Greer Lankton American
Not on view
In New York in the late 1970s, Lankton began making expressionistic papier-mâché dolls of celebrities and downtown personalities. This doll-mannequin of the performance artist Rachel Rosenthal (1926–2015) was once clothed and stood in a boutique window in the East Village. Lankton’s work reflects her own traumas, addiction, and life as a transgender person. The emaciated Rachel evokes the fragility and queerness of a body in extremis, even as she strikes a pose that emphatically proclaims presence and demands renewed engagement with androgyny, fixed notions of identity, and the nature of beauty.
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