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Deana Lawson’s Hyper-Staged Portraits of Black Love

Deana Lawson has a knack for identifying and arranging the strangely potent components of black interiors that mean nothing and so much—the Michael Jackson poster, unframed on the wall; the light of the unshaded bulb; the devotional candle, unlit; and the “loud” bedspread, trimmed with lace, the kind of tapestry that provides for many children their first impressions of taste, of flashy self-expression. “Binky and Tony in Love” is only technically a portrait of two people; Lawson is no journalist. Acrylic nails, Notorious B.I.G., and her mother, Dana Lawson, all count as inspirations, she has said; we might also detect the manipulated vérité of Lorna Simpson, Philip Kwame Opagya, and Lauren Greenfield as influences. What Lawson documents in her hyper-staged compositions are immense maxims; this one is a template of black love. 

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