Catching the glint of Lorraine O’Grady’s eye through the grill of the heavy armor she wears as The Knight, or Lancela Palm-and-Steel, a new persona in her long-spanning career, is unsettling. In nearly life size portraits photographed austerely on black, the knight trapped in shining armor appears to go through studied exercises of preparation and

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