"Drawn from the context of journalist reportage, the phrase “off the record” here refers to accounts that have been left out of mainstream narratives. The exhibition’s title can also be understood in its verb form: to undermine or “kill” the record as a gesture of redress. Across various manipulations of “records,” artists in this exhibition seek to call out the power dynamics obscured by official documentation, complicate the idea of objectivity and truth, and surface new narrative possibilities." - Guggenheim
Farwell Uncle Tom + Something to Believe in + Bleach and Glow, Hank Willis Thomas
Bleach and Glow, Hank Willis Thomas
Flipside, Lorna Simpson
My Father’s FBI File; Government Employees Installation, Sadie Barnette
Decide Who You Are #19: Torch Song Alert, Adrian Piper
Sable Elyse Smith b. 1986, Los Angeles Coloring Book 18, 2018
Riffs on Real Time, Leslie Hewitt
Riffs on Real Time (3 of 10), Leslie Hewitt
Riffs on Real Time (6 of 10), 2006-09, Leslie Hewitt
From Here I Saw What Happened and Cried, Carrie Mae Weems
Herald Tribune: November 1977, Sarah Charlesworth
Herald Tribune: November 1977, Sarah Charlesworth
Ecology of Fear (Gillum for Governor of Florida)(Freedom Riders bus bombed by KKK), 2020
Prisoner of Love 1-3, Glenn Ligon
Encyclopedia Grid (Bananas), Sara Cwynar
"Deana Lawson (b. 1979, Rochester, NY) creates images that are rooted in a moment from the tangible world, but ultimately exist in the shimmering in-between space of dreams, memories, and spiritual communion, where the everyday is transfigured into the uncanny and the magnificent. Her photographs and films result from collaborations with strangers whom the artist encounters by chance or deliberately seeks out. These individuals are often depicted within richly textured domestic settings in which the details of décor, lighting, and pose are precisely choreographed. In this way, Lawson draws on the legacies of historical portraiture, documentary photography, and the family album, but transcends these traditions, constructing scenes that merge lived experience with imagined narratives." - Guggenheim
Landscape near Antwerp, Georges Braque
Roadway with Underpass, Vincent van Gogh
Before the Mirror, Édourad Manet
Piano and Manola + Violin and Palette, Georges Braque
