Lorna Simpson (born 1960) is an African American Predominantly Protestant, some Catholics. Minorities practice Islam and other religions artist The definition of an artist is wide-ranging and covers a broad spectrum of activities to do with creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only. The term is often used in the entertainment business, especially in a business and photographer A photographer is a person who takes photographs using a camera. A professional photographer uses photography to earn money whilst amateur photographers take photographs for pleasure and to record an event, emotion, place or person who made her name in the 1980s and 1990s with artworks such as Guarded Conditions and Square Deal. Her work often portrays black women combined with text to express contemporary society's relationship with race, ethnicity and sex. In 2007, Simpson had a 20-year retrospective of her work at the Whitney Museum of American Art The Whitney Museum of American Art, often referred to simply as "the Whitney", is an art museum with a focus on 20th- and 21st-century American art. Located at 945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street in New York City, the Whitney's permanent collection contains more than 18,000 works in a wide variety of media. The Whitney places a particular in her hometown of New York City New York is the most populous city in the United States, and the center of the New York metropolitan area, which is one of the most populous urban areas in the world. A leading global city, New York exerts a powerful influence over worldwide commerce, finance, culture, fashion and entertainment. As host of the United Nations headquarters, it is.[1][2]
Born in Brooklyn Brooklyn is New York City's most populous borough with 2.5 million residents, and second largest in area. It is also the western most County on Long Island, New York, she attended the High School of Art and Design and the School of Visual Arts The School of Visual Arts , is a proprietary art school located in Manhattan, New York City, and is widely considered to be one of the leading art schools in the United States. It was established in 1947 by co-founders Silas H. Rhodes and Burne Hogarth as the Cartoonists and Illustrators School and was renamed in 1956. SVA is a member of the in New York, and then the University of California, San Diego The University of California, San Diego is a public research university located in La Jolla, San Diego, California. UCSD is one of the ten general campuses of the University of California system and was founded in 1960 near the pre-existing Scripps Institution of Oceanography. 22,048 undergraduate and 5,073 graduate students enrolled in Fall 2007. Her earliest work was as a documentary street photographer, before moving her observations of race and society into her studio.[3] Simpson began exploring ethnic divisions in the 1980s era of multiculturalism. Her most notable works combine words with photographs of anonymously cropped images of women and occasionally men. While the pictures may appear straightforward, the text will often confront the viewer with the underlying racism still found in American culture.
Lorna Simpson, Untitled (2 Necklines), 1989, 2 gelatin silver prints and 11 engraved plastic plaques, 40 x 100 in., National Gallery of Art The National Gallery of Art is a national art museum, located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Open to the public free of charge, the museum was established in 1937 for the people of the United States of America by a joint resolution of the United States Congress, with funds for construction and a substantial art collection donated by, Washington, DC Washington, D.C. , formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States, founded on July 16, 1790. The City of Washington was originally a separate municipality within the Territory of Columbia until an act of Congress in 1871 effectively merged the City and theSimpson's 1989 work, Necklines, shows two circular and identical photographs of a black woman's mouth, chin, neck, and collar bone. The white text, “ring, surround, lasso, noose, eye, areola, halo, cuffs, collar, loop”, individual words on black plaques, imply menace, binding or worse. The final phrase, text on red “feel the ground sliding from under you,” openly suggests lynching, though the adjacent images remain serene, non-confrontational and elegant.[4]
Lorna Simpson has explored various media and techniques, including two-dimensional photographs as well as silk screening her photographs on large felt panels, creating installations, or producing as video works such as Call Waiting (1997).[2] She was the first Black woman to participate at the Venice Biennale The Venice Biennale is a major contemporary art exhibition that takes place once every two years (in odd years) in Venice, Italy. It is similar to Susak Expo in Susak, Croatia which takes place on even years. The Venice Film Festival is part of it, as is the Venice Biennale of Architecture, which is held in even years. A dance section, the ".[5] In a recent video work, Corridor (2003), Simpson sets two women side-by-side; a household servant from 1860 and a wealthy homeowner from 1960. Both women are portrayed by artist Wangechi Mutu, allowing parallel and haunting relationships to be drawn.[1]
| “ | I do not appear in any of my work. I think maybe there are elements to it and moments to it that I use from my own personal experience, but that, in and of itself, is not so important as what the work is trying to say about either the way we interpret experience or the way we interpret things about identity.[2] | ” |
Lorna Simpson lives in Brooklyn with her husband, photographer James Casebere James Casebere, born in Lansing, Michigan, grew up outside of Detroit. He attended Michigan State University and graduated from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design with a BFA in 1976. In the fall of 1977, he attended the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York, and then moved to Los Angeles where he studied under John Baldessari and, and their daughter Zora.[5] She is represented by Salon 94.
References
- ^ a b Cotter, Holland (2007-03-02), "Exploring Identity as a Problematic Condition". The New York Times, [1].
- ^ a b c Jennie Bell (March 7, 2007), Lorna Simpson, ARTINFO, http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/24522/lorna-simpson/, retrieved 2008-04-23
- ^ "A World of Art Biographical Sketch: Lorna Simpson" [2]
- ^ "National Gallery of Art Acquires Important Contemporary Works by Brodthaers, Lewitt, Morris, and Simpson", (2005-05-04) [3]
- ^ a b Jorge Arango, 2002, "At home with Lorna Simpson: a major player in the world of photography and video composes her personal sanctuary - home", Essence [4]
Further reading
- Willis, Deborah; Lorna Simpson (1992). Lorna Simpson. San Francisco: Friends of Photography. ISBN The International Standard Book Number is a unique[clarification needed] numeric commercial book identifier based upon the 9-digit Standard Book Numbering (SBN) code created by Gordon Foster, now Emeritus Professor of Statistics at Trinity College, Dublin,[clarification needed] for the booksellers and stationers W.H. Smith and others in 1966 0933286600.
- Brockington, Horace. "Logical Anonymity: Lorna Simpson, Steve McQueen Steve McQueen is an English artist. He is best known for his films. He is a winner of the Golden Camera at the Cannes FIlm Festival, a Turner Prize and BAFTA. He has no relation to the late actor of the same name, Stan Douglas." International Review of African American Art 15 No. 3 (1998): 20-29.
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