Myra Greene’s practice exposes the ways in which Black women’s bodies have been repeatedly appropriated, violated, abused, exoticized, stereotyped, misinterpreted and erased through Western imagery. Challenging the parameters of portraiture, Greene creates photographs and textile assemblages that draw narratives from “the taxonomy of looking.” Greene conscientiously politicizes her media, including techniques of late 19th and early 20th century photography, as well as fabric interventions, exerting authority over strategies of self-presentation and reimaging.