The Body as Archive

Bi-Racial Portraits #1 and #2 were featured in the Fall 1998 issue of Art Journal, that was titled, Issue on Race and Visual Representation. Kenseth Armsted, the editor, said of the Bi-Racial Portraits, “ . . . ours may be the last generation unable to completely alter our skin color through genetic engineering. Paul Solomon’s melanin experiments continue this thought process by forcing an interrogation of assumptions based on a subject’s coloration.”