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LaToya Ruby Frazier

LaToya Ruby Frazier, Grandma Ruby and me, 2005 (printed 2013). Gelatin silver print mounted on museum board, edition AP 1/2, 20 × 24 inches (50.8 × 61 cm). Collection of the Nasher Museum of Art. Museum purchase with funds provided by Marjorie (P’16, P’19, P’19) and Michael Levine (B.S.’84, P’16, P’19, P’19), 2013.6.2. © LaToya Ruby Frazier. Courtesy of the artist and Michel Rein, Paris, France / Brussels, Belgium.
View Reality of My Surroundings: The Contemporary CollectionIn this lush, vibrant scene, tall blades of grass and colorful vegetation cover the large surface of the image and create a decadent, fantastical environment. Glitter, fabric, and rhinestones suggest a world of beauty and festivity, while the lavish, curving plants allude to growth and life. A closer look, however, reveals a more somber subject hidden behind the dazzling artifice: along the shiny red path is the unconscious body of a prostrate black male.
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Reality of My Surroundings: The Contemporary Collection

October 01, 2015 – July 10, 2016

In celebration of the museum’s 10th anniversary, the Nasher Museum presented some of its most significant works from the contemporary collection. Reality of My Surroundings demonstrated the museum’s ongoing commit...

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