Lorna Simpson
March 2020—February 2022
As an avid generator and collector of images, Lorna Simpson (b. 1960) uses her work to explore African American culture while rejecting narrow, stereotypical readings of race, gender, sexuality, and American history. The work in this installation—Specific Notation, 2019—belongs to the artist’s recent foray into painting and comes from a body of work that constructs ominous arctic landscapes through composite images of ice and smoke appropriated from the archive at the Library of Congress, various newspaper clippings, and scientific magazines. Embedded in these landscapes are the figures of black women appropriated from magazines, washed in layers of dark blue ink, pushing the subjects of the painting into the realm of psychologically-charged abstraction. This marks the first installation of a work by the artist at Glenstone.
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Lorna Simpson
Specific Notation, 2019
Simpson 2019Specific Notation, 2019
ink and screenprint on gessoed fiberglass
144 x 102 inches (366 x 259 cm)
© Lorna Simpson
Photo: Thomas Barratt
Courtesy: The artist and Hauser & Wirth
Thomas Barratt
Courtesy: The artist and Hauser & Wirth Lorna Simpson https://www.glenstone.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/SIMPl_GF_SpecificNotation-594x800.jpg The top half of a woman's face peers out of a collage of images washed in a deep blue ink.