The Studio Visit, 1982-83
Mixed-media installation with “the artist” (doll of Lieutenant Uhura from Star Trek), “the curator” (doll of Spanky from Our Gang with a 1960s Barbie wig), and miniatures of an easel, two wooden melon crates, stretching canvas instructions, sousaphone, bottle of Evian water, goblet, corkscrew, wine bottle, lamp, loaf of bread, wooden kitchen cabinet, rice cooker, folding chair, kitchen sink, vegetables, fruit, red shelves, paper towels, cans, bottles, kente cloth rug, nightstand, radio, frog, hair dryer, dictionary, juju box with brass light bulb, hand mirror, perfume bottle, red bra, flash light, bracelets, espadrille, wire hangers, futon, clothes, book, trunk, pillow, a stack of newspapers, hen, refrigerator, straw fruit basket, woodburning stove, kettle, frying pan, coffee table, kerosene lamp, ashtray, tumbler, Barcelona® couch, sneakers, and oil pastel and colored pencil drawings on brown rice paper
14 x 19.5 x 21.5 inches
Mixed-media installation with “the artist” (doll of Lieutenant Uhura from Star Trek), “the curator” (doll of Spanky from Our Gang with a 1960s Barbie wig), and miniatures of an easel, two wooden melon crates, stretching canvas instructions, sousaphone, bottle of Evian water, goblet, corkscrew, wine bottle, lamp, loaf of bread, wooden kitchen cabinet, rice cooker, folding chair, kitchen sink, vegetables, fruit, red shelves, paper towels, cans, bottles, kente cloth rug, nightstand, radio, frog, hair dryer, dictionary, juju box with brass light bulb, hand mirror, perfume bottle, red bra, flash light, bracelets, espadrille, wire hangers, futon, clothes, book, trunk, pillow, a stack of newspapers, hen, refrigerator, straw fruit basket, woodburning stove, kettle, frying pan, coffee table, kerosene lamp, ashtray, tumbler, Barcelona® couch, sneakers, and oil pastel and colored pencil drawings on brown rice paper
14 x 19.5 x 21.5 inches
Janet Olivia Henry's Recent Academic Abstractions, 1982
Twenty found and altered dolls, toys, ten oil pastel “paintings” on Japanese mulberry paper
37¼ x 12 x 11¾ in. (94.61 x 30.48 x 29.84 cm)
Twenty found and altered dolls, toys, ten oil pastel “paintings” on Japanese mulberry paper
37¼ x 12 x 11¾ in. (94.61 x 30.48 x 29.84 cm)
Ritual, 1982-1983
Mixed-media installation with a doll of Lieutenant Uhura from Star Trek with the makeup removed, wearing a Barbie robe, socks with slippers, and scarf; miniatures of a fan, books, camera, apples, cheese, shells and starfish, wooden chair, benches, stools, baskets, pots, watering can, gardening tools, staghorn fern, orchids, philodendron, gesneriads, rabbit’s foot ferns, night-blooming cereus, cacti, serrated-leaf plant, oval-leaf plant, crassula, Boston fern, Easter cactus, and a palm
20¼ x 20½ x 15¾ in.
Mixed-media installation with a doll of Lieutenant Uhura from Star Trek with the makeup removed, wearing a Barbie robe, socks with slippers, and scarf; miniatures of a fan, books, camera, apples, cheese, shells and starfish, wooden chair, benches, stools, baskets, pots, watering can, gardening tools, staghorn fern, orchids, philodendron, gesneriads, rabbit’s foot ferns, night-blooming cereus, cacti, serrated-leaf plant, oval-leaf plant, crassula, Boston fern, Easter cactus, and a palm
20¼ x 20½ x 15¾ in.
Quiche Police, 1980
Rubber stamps and colored pencil on graph paper
8.5 x 11 in. (21.59 x 27.94 cm)
Rubber stamps and colored pencil on graph paper
8.5 x 11 in. (21.59 x 27.94 cm)
Kimono, 1980
Colored pencil on graph paper
11 x 8½ in. (27.94 x 21.59 cm)
Colored pencil on graph paper
11 x 8½ in. (27.94 x 21.59 cm)
New York Phantasmagoria #1-2, 1993-95
LEGOs a.k.a. plastic interlocking bricks
15 x 30 x 15 in. (38.1 x 76.2 x 38.1 cm)
LEGOs a.k.a. plastic interlocking bricks
15 x 30 x 15 in. (38.1 x 76.2 x 38.1 cm)
New York Phantasmagoria #9-10, 2008
LEGOs a.k.a. plastic interlocking bricks
15 x 30 x 15 in. (38.1 x 76.2 x 38.1 cm)
LEGOs a.k.a. plastic interlocking bricks
15 x 30 x 15 in. (38.1 x 76.2 x 38.1 cm)
BIFURCATE, 1983-2023
Braided and woven waxed brown nylon thread, white pot metal cylinders, and huishi from Kenya, black commercial glass seeds, Fulani marriage beads (Czech glass teardrops) from Mali, brass and copper bicone (kirdi) from the Cameroon and Ethiopia, Guinea Conakry coconut shell discs, Afghani leather charms, carved wooden beads from Brazil, Tagua nut sliced drops and chips from Brazil, African amber, copper flat rectangle, seed shells and caps, silver bicone from Kenya, braided waxed red linen thread, Bond paper, clear vinyl, white glass from Ghana, red white hearts made in Venice and traded in the Philippines, red dyed coral, white glass spheres
39 x 7½ x 7½ in.
Braided and woven waxed brown nylon thread, white pot metal cylinders, and huishi from Kenya, black commercial glass seeds, Fulani marriage beads (Czech glass teardrops) from Mali, brass and copper bicone (kirdi) from the Cameroon and Ethiopia, Guinea Conakry coconut shell discs, Afghani leather charms, carved wooden beads from Brazil, Tagua nut sliced drops and chips from Brazil, African amber, copper flat rectangle, seed shells and caps, silver bicone from Kenya, braided waxed red linen thread, Bond paper, clear vinyl, white glass from Ghana, red white hearts made in Venice and traded in the Philippines, red dyed coral, white glass spheres
39 x 7½ x 7½ in.
Wrought: WAC's Drum Corps, 2007-2024
Toys, Dolls and Interlocking Plastic Bricks (IPBs)
45 x 45 x 16 in. (114.3 x 114.3 x 14.61 cm)
Toys, Dolls and Interlocking Plastic Bricks (IPBs)
45 x 45 x 16 in. (114.3 x 114.3 x 14.61 cm)
Wrought: WAC's Drum Corps, detail, 2007-2024
Toys, Dolls and Interlocking Plastic Bricks (IPBs)
45 x 45 x 16 in. (114.3 x 114.3 x 14.61 cm)
Toys, Dolls and Interlocking Plastic Bricks (IPBs)
45 x 45 x 16 in. (114.3 x 114.3 x 14.61 cm)