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Lorna Simpson
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A revelatory first look at the painting practice of artist Lorna Simpson, whose work combines abstraction and figuration to highlight issues of identity and representation. Though Lorna Simpson (b. 1960) is perhaps best known as a photographer, this publication is the first to examine a significant...
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A revelatory first look at the painting practice of artist Lorna Simpson, whose work combines abstraction and figuration to highlight issues of identity and representation
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A revelatory first look at the painting practice of artist Lorna Simpson, whose work combines abstraction and figuration to highlight issues of identity and representation.
Though Lorna Simpson (b. 1960) is perhaps best known as a photographer, this publication is the first to examine a significant new development in her work of the last ten years: paintings that advance her incisive explorations of gender, race, and history. These works, midway between photography and painting, combine screen-printed collages of found images with washes of colourful ink on fibreglass, wood, or clayboard.
Drawing on documentary photographs and images from vintage Ebony and Jet magazines, Simpson's paintings include bodies that emerge and disappear, peering from inky surfaces or dissolving into landscapes of melting ice. The texts in this volume explore how Simpson's fascination with the politics of representation propels her experiments in works that are both figurative and abstract, portraits and landscapes, paintings and photographs.
Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Distributed by Yale University Press
Exhibition Schedule:
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
(May 19–November 2, 2025)
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781588398000
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 27 May 2025
Country: United States
Imprint: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Illustration: 144 color illus.
Contributors:
- Contributions by David Breslin
- Contributions by Hilton Als
- With David Breslin
- With Hilton Als
- With Adrienne Edwards
- Contributions by Adrienne Edwards
Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Width: 229.0mm
Height: 279.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 212
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About the Author
Lauren Rosati is associate curator in the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art and research projects manager in the Leonard A. Lauder Research Center for Modern Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
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