Lorna Simpson: Dec 5

Wednesday, December 5
Parsons, 65 Fifth Ave. Swayduck Auditorium
3:15 PM - 5:00 PM
Free and open to all

Lorna Simpson first became known in the mid-1980s, for confronting and challenging conventional views toward gender, identity, culture, history, and memory with her large-scale photograph and text works that are both formally elegant and subtly provocative. Simpson uses the African-American woman to examine the ways in which gender and culture shape the interactions, relationships and experiences of our lives in contemporary multi-racial America. Her work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Miami Art Museum; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin. She has participated in such important international exhibitions as the Hugo Boss Prize at the Guggenheim Museum, New York, and Documenta XI in Kassel, Germany. She has been the subject of numerous articles, catalogue essays, and a monograph published by Phaidon Press.

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