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See Artist Lorna Simpson’s Collages of Black Hair

Episode No. 270 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features artist Lorna Simpson. The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth is showing “FOCUS: Lorna Simpson” through Jan. 15, 2017. The exhibitio…

Lorna Simpson, American (1960- ), Observing the Universe, 2021, collage (combining celestial maps with images cut out of vintage issues of Ebony and Jet magazines) and pastel on handmade paper, 61 x 43.2 cm

Brooklyn-based artist Lorna Simpson combines images of black men and women pulled from vintage advertising photos with bright ink washes to give her subjects kaleidoscopic hairstyles erupting with color. The photographs are snipped from old issues of Ebony and Jet magazines and are either layered with ink or found textbook imagery like crystalized growths to explore the deep and varied language of hair. In one piece the subject is adorned with a thick slab of rock, while in another a…

From Phillips, Lorna Simpson, Ultra Blue (2013), Collage and ink on paper, 74.9 × 54.9 cm

Ink and screenprint on gessoed fibreglass (2022). © Lorna Simpson, courtesy Hauser & Wirth. Click through to find more artworks by Lorna Simpson on Ocula.

Hauser & Wirth was founded in 1992 in Zurich by Iwan Wirth, Manuela Wirth and Ursula Hauser, who were joined in 2000 by Partner and President Marc Payot

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Hauser & Wirth was founded in 1992 in Zurich by Iwan Wirth, Manuela Wirth and Ursula Hauser, who were joined in 2000 by Partner and President Marc Payot

Simpson's sparse, sepia portraits depict women with anonymity - we see only the line of a shoulder blade or the sweep of a collarbone. This universalizes their bodies but also confronts us with an almost unnerving intimacy. These photos are then interwoven, thematically and literally, with the artifacts of a dark history - braids of hair, lonely shoes, empty dinner plates, and abandoned slave quarters.

Director of the Studio Museum in Harlem Thelma Golden probes renowned artist Lorna Simpson on the challenges of representing the female black body, and her complex (and not completely amicable) relationship to feminism in this Phaidon excerpt.

In 2018, Vogue nominated the enigmatic multidisciplinary artist Lorna Simpson as “America’s most defiant conceptual artist” anticipating her Hauser & Wirth exhibition “Unanswerable” in London. But Simpson has been a premier force for conceptual art - principally photography and collage - sin

Tulip by Lorna Simpson

Our February 2021 issue is a collaborative effort between global pop star and entrepreneur Rihanna and celebrated fine artist Lorna Simpson.

you might remember my previous post about artist Lorna Simpson, whose exquisite Gold Head series is still a favourite of mine. they form part of a continuing series of collages based on figures from…

Director of the Studio Museum in Harlem Thelma Golden probes renowned artist Lorna Simpson on the challenges of representing the female black body, and her complex (and not completely amicable) relationship to feminism in this Phaidon excerpt.

You'll want to dye your hair after this.