Laurie Simmons: Big Camera/Little Camera

Synopsis

Gender Roles And Identity, Reality And Its Distortion, And The Psychologically Loaded Myth Of Normal Life Are Recurrent Themes In Laurie Simmons's Work. Taken Chronologically, Her Career Has Followed A Trajectory From Miniature To Full Size, Black-and-white To Color, Mechanical To Human. Over More Than Four Decades, The Artist's Authentic Gaze Has Remained Unflinching, Whether She Is Composing Tableaux Of Plastic Figurines And Props, Or Painting The Eyelids Of Glamorous Models And Transforming Them Into Doll-like Humans With An Unsettling Stare. Her Well-known Series, Such As Walking And Lying Objects And The Instant Decorator, Are Featured Here Along With Lesser-known Series That Explore Underwater Photography, Self-portraiture, And A Feature Film Starring Meryl Streep And A Plastic Dummy. In Conjunction With An Exhibition At The Modern Art Museum Of Fort Worth, This Book Includes An Essay On Simmons's Early Iconic Photographs, While Other Writings Take Closer Looks At Specific And More Recent Series. Renowned Art Historian And Curator Michael Auping's Interview With Simmons Rounds Out This Book. Preface And Acknowledgments / Marla Price -- Finding Jane / Andrea Karnes -- A Doll's House : Laurie Simmons's Sense Of Scale / Calvin Tomkins -- Laurie Simmons : Stages / Michael Auping -- Misconstruction/deconstruction : Laurie Simmons And The Pictures Generation / William J. Simmons -- Room Underneath (gold) / Carroll Dunham -- Stranger Spaces / Lynne Tillman -- Two Boys / Matthew Weinstein -- Laurie Simmons : Facet And Fashion / Andrianna Campbell -- A Portrait Of An Artist : The Films Of Laurie Simmons / Omar Kholeif. Laurie Simmons ; Organized By Andrea Karnes ; Michael Auping, Andrianna Campbell, Carroll Dunham, Omar Kholeif, Marla Price, William J. Simmons, Lynne Tillman, Calvin Tomkins, Matthew Weinstein. Catalog Of Exhibitions Held At Modern Art Museum Of Fort Worth, October 14, 2018-january 27, 2019 And The Museum Of Contemporary Art Chicago, February 23-may 5, 2019. Includes Bibliographical References. In English.