She earned critical praise for
her role in PRIMARY COLORS, as well as for her work opposite Jim Carrey in the smash hit LIAR LIAR.
Not exact matches
Her luck began to change for the better
in the late 1990s, when she started garnering luminous reviews for her work both on Broadway — where she earned a Tony nomination for her
role in 1998's A View from the Bridge — and onscreen
in such films as Big Night (1996) and Mike Nichols»
Primary Colors (1998).
But * they will * pay to see white actors play
primary roles in films supposedly about people of
color.
She creates a personal and contemporary fiction within her works, bringing to light issues of race and representation throughout the history of traditional figurative painting: «My work is a form of tribute, analysis and intervention: tribute out of sincere admiration for the figurative tradition; analysis, by making something vast,» the
role of race
in the history of figurative painting «comprehensible to both myself and to my viewers; and intervention, by positioning a woman - of -
color as
primary picture - maker,
in whose hands the figurative tradition is refashioned.»