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I Left Those Stories You Made Up Underneath Some Black Cohosh so I Could Reclaim My Power! Beat it, Magickiller!, 2025

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“Being a painter, I’m continually learning a language, and the language of abstraction grows naturally through intuition and being present in my body. This includes textual language. Here there is some intuited text and also religious mottos. There’s something about taking these phrases and radicalizing them, not just as didactic and dogmatic bits of information but as open-ended poetry. One hundred people will read a poem and there will be one hundred different meanings. The question is: What do you see?"—GRP

I Left Those Stories You Made Up Underneath Some Black Cohosh so I Could Reclaim My Power! Beat it, Magickiller!, 2025

Large colorful abstract painting with layered shapes, text scrawls, and bold blue and pink brushstrokes.
Large colorful abstract painting with layered shapes, text scrawls, and bold blue and pink brushstrokes.

Installation view of Grace Rosario Perkins: Circles, Spokes, Zigzags, Rivers (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, October 18, 2025–February 8, 2026). I Left Those Stories You Made Up Underneath Some Black Cohosh so I Could Reclaim My Power! Beat it, Magickiller!, 2025. Artwork © Grace Rosario Perkins. Photograph by Ron Amstutz, digital image © Whitney Museum of American Art

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