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Rachel

Greer Lankton American

1986

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.

Rachel, Greer Lankton (American, 1958–1996), Papier-mâché, metal plates, wire, acrylic paint, and matte medium — Due to rights restrictions, this image cannot be enlarged, viewed at full screen, or downloaded.

Title: Rachel

Artist: Greer Lankton (American, 1958–1996)

Date: 1986

Medium: Papier-mâché, metal plates, wire, acrylic paint, and matte medium

Dimensions: 28 × 21 × 11 in. (71.1 × 53.3 × 27.9 cm)

Classification: Sculpture

Credit Line: Collection Eric Ceputis and David W. Williams, promised gift to the Art Institute of Chicago

Accession Number: PC.087

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