BOOK FORMAT Paperback, 8 x 10 in. / 336 pgs / illustrated throughout.
PUBLISHING STATUS Pub Date 11/30/2013 Active
DISTRIBUTION D.A.P. Exclusive Catalog: FALL 2013 p. 48
PRODUCT DETAILS ISBN 9780934324632TRADE List Price: $65.00 CDN $87.00 GBP £57.00
AVAILABILITY Out of stock
TERRITORY WORLD
EXHIBITION SCHEDULE
Aspen, CO Aspen Art Museum 07/26/13-09/22/13
“Part of the joy I feel looking at Interior Group is how expertly Simpson has evolved from having other women and men tell something of her story to Simpson herself telling her story.” - Hilton Als, excerpted from the essay, Shadows.
Text by Hilton Als, Connie Butler, Franklin Sirmans, Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson, Anna Deveare Smith.
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. This beautifully illustrated catalogue features new scholarship by New Yorker staff writer Hilton Als, MoMA Chief Curator of Drawings, Connie Butler, LACMA Chief Curator of Contemporary Art, Franklin Sirmans, and the AAM’s Nancy and Bob Magoon CEO and Director, Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson.
Featured image, "Barbara K 001" (2009), is reproduced from Lorna Simpson: Works on Paper.
PRAISE AND REVIEWS
Bookforum
Lauren O'Neill-Butler
The images and essays in the handsome accompanying catalogue are a testament to the connections, departures, and complexity of Simpson's recent output. Throughout the book we see that while Simpson finds new possibilities in drawing, she also nods, sometimes quite slyly, to deep-set traditions. As MoMA curator Connie Butler aptly notes in her essay, " The intimacy of the paper she chooses, consistently the 8 1/2x11 sheet of the notebook or sketchpad, is a scale close to photography's ancient history as well. "
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If you made it to Frieze New York this week, you're probably thinking about Lorna Simpson, whose work is the subject of a solo show at Hauser & Wirth's stand. Just so happens that Lorna Simpson: Works on Paper is a staff favorite and a featured title at our Frieze bookstore. Connie Butler writes, "Simpson’s collaging is an act of recuperation of the contested, protofeminist female (and prefeminist male) image from the culturally charged site of Ebony. All the black-and-white magazine fragments in this series appear to be drawn from around the same cultural moment, and the artist exploits the humor that our historical distance from it brings to this juncture of civil, sexual, and cultural revolution. One face after another is adorned with a flourish of color and abstract form…" Featured image is Redhead (2011). continue to blog
ARTBOOK and agnès b. invite you to celebrate Lorna Simpson's stunning new book of Works on Paper, published by the Aspen Art Museum. Beautifully designed and printed, and featuring texts by noted scholars, writers and art historians Hilton Als, Connie Butler, Franklin Sirmans, Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson and Anna Deveare Smith, it is a universal staff favorite this season. The 2012 collage work Jet #12, pictured here, is reproduced from the book, a featured title at our pop-up winter bookshop at the 50 Howard Street agnès b. Join us Monday, January 13 from 6:30 - 8:30 PM for a book signing and festive warming libations! continue to blog
Last night, art and book lovers gathered at ARTBOOK @ agnès b. on Howard Street to sip mulled wine and celebrate the publication of Lorna Simpson's gorgeous new volume of Works on Paper, published by Aspen Art Museum. continue to blog
FORMAT: Pbk, 8 x 10 in. / 336 pgs / illustrated throughout. LIST PRICE: U.S. $65.00 LIST PRICE: CANADA $87 GBP £57.00 ISBN: 9780934324632 PUBLISHER: Aspen Art Press AVAILABLE: 11/30/2013 DISTRIBUTION: D.A.P. RETAILER DISC: TRADE PUBLISHING STATUS: Active AVAILABILITY: Out of stock TERRITORY: WORLD
Published by Aspen Art Press. Text by Hilton Als, Connie Butler, Franklin Sirmans, Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson, Anna Deveare Smith.
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. This beautifully illustrated catalogue features new scholarship by New Yorker staff writer Hilton Als, MoMA Chief Curator of Drawings, Connie Butler, LACMA Chief Curator of Contemporary Art, Franklin Sirmans, and the AAM’s Nancy and Bob Magoon CEO and Director, Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson.
