Lorna Simpson: Works on Paper (ASPEN ART PRESS)

Synopsis

One Of The Leading Artists Of Her Generation, Lorna Simpson (born 1960) Came To Prominence In The Mid-1980s Through Her Photographic And Textual Works That Challenged Conventional Attitudes Toward Race, Gender And Cultural Memory With A Potent Mixture Of Formal Elegance And Conceptual Rigor. Published On The Occasion Of Her 2013 Exhibition At Aspen Art Museum, 'lorna Simpson: Works On Paper' Highlights Four Recent Bodies Of Work On Paper That Explore The Complex Relationship Between The Photographic Archive And Processes Of Self-fashioning, Including A New Group Of Works Being Developed During Her Time As The Aam's 2013 Jane And Marc Nathanson Distinguished Artist In Residence. 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. Director's Foreword -- Easy To Remember / Anna Deavere Smith -- Actresses -- Barbara -- Shadows / Hilton Als -- Heads -- Game Changer / Franklin Sirmans -- Gold Heads -- Marking Portraits, Collaging Marks: Lorna Simpson's Archive Of Drawings / Connie Butler -- Collages -- Which Wig To Wear / Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson. Texts By Anna Deavere Smith ... [et Al.]. Accompanies The Exhibition Lorna Simpson: Works On Paper, On View At The Aspen Art Museum July 26-september 22, 2013.-- Colophon. Includes Bibliographical References.