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Deborah Lawrence Dee Dee Does Utopia

Discipline
Visual Arts
Medium
Painting
Subject

Politics
State
Washington
Year
2005
Status
Completed

Description

Dee Dee Does Utopia is a series of varnished works on paper. Lawrence researched failed utopias throughout United Express, and as with previous projects, inhabiting the work through a fictitious alter ego named Dee Dee Lorenzo. Integrating text, graphics, and allusions to traditions such as American quilting and stitchery, the collage-like works in Dee Dee Does Utopia are inspired by the instigations and political aesthetics of the Dadaists and Surrealists.

Deborah Lawrence

Deborah Lawrence has had solo exhibitions at The Frieda and Roy Furman Gallery at Lincoln Center (New York), Provisions Library Resource Center for Acti…
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Project Updates

2008: Dee Dee Does Utopia, a book of Lawrence’s collage works, is published by Marquand Books
2005: Dee Dee Does Utopia is exhibited at the Provisions Library Resource Center for Activism and the Arts in Washington, D.C.
2006: Dee Dee Does Utopia is exhibited at Catherine Person Gallery in Seattle
2007: Dee Dee Does Utopia has official premiere at Lincoln Center in New York