Lorna Simpson, Redhead, 2011, Image via the BeardenProject.com. |
Works on Paper
590 North Mill Street
Aspen, CO
One of
the leading artists of her generation, Lorna Simpson came to prominence in the
mid-1980s through her photographic and textual works that confronted and
challenged conventional attitudes toward race, gender, and cultural memory with
a potent mixture of formal elegance and conceptual rigor. Since the late 1990s,
Simpson has extended these concerns into a series of film and video
installations and large-scale photographic works printed on felt.
Lorna
Simpson: Works on Paper highlights
a recent body of work that explores the complex relationship between the
photographic archive and processes of self-fashioning. As in Simpson’s earlier
works, these new drawings and collages take the African-American woman as a
point of departure, continuing her longstanding examination of the ways that
gender and culture shape the experience of life in our contemporary multiracial
society. This will be the first museum exhibition dedicated to Simpson’s
drawings and collages—including a new series of works created during her tenure
as the Aspen Art Museum’s 2013 Jane and Marc Nathanson Distinguished Artist in
Residence—and will be accompanied by a fully illustrated, scholarly catalogue.
Lorna
Simpson’s Jane and Marc Nathanson Distinguished Artist in Residence residency
and exhibition are organized by the Aspen Art Museum and funded by Jane and
Marc Nathanson with additional support from Rona and Jeffrey Citrin.
Publication underwritten with major support from Toby Devan Lewis. General
exhibition support is provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual
Arts. Exhibition lectures are presented as part of the Questrom Lecture Series
and educational outreach programming is made possible by the Questrom Education
Fund.
ARTIST
BIO
Lorna Simpson (born 1960, Brooklyn, New York) received her BFA in Photography
from the School of Visual Arts in New York and her MFA from the University of
California, San Diego. Her work has been widely collected and exhibited by such
institutions as the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Walker Art Center,
Minneapolis; Studio Museum, Harlem; and Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin;
among others. In 2006–07, her mid-career survey was exhibited at the Museum of
Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Miami Art Museum; Whitney Museum of American
Art, New York; Kalamazoo Institute of Arts; and Gibbes Museum of Art in
Charleston, South Carolina. Simpson’s exhibition at the AAM coincides with her
first major European retrospective at the Jeu de Paume in Paris.
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