LORNA SIMPSON Organized by the American Federation of Arts (AFA) www.afaweb.org >The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles April 16-July 10, 2006>Miami Art Museum October 5, 2006-January 21, 2007>Whitney Museum of American Art February 8–May 6, 2007>Kalamazoo Institute of Arts May 25- August 19, 2007>The Gibbes Museum of Art September 7-December 2, 2007

foto: Twenty Questions (A Sampler), 1986 4 gelatin silver prints, 6 engraved plastic plaques. Photographs 24 inches each (diameter), 99 inches overall. Courtesy the artist and Sean Kelly Gallery, New York

“Much of Simpson’s work imbricates language, speech, and text. Language is employed like a lever to pry open the lid of the unconscious. Here text plays a subsidiary role. However, when it approximates speech, it functions like a memory trigger in relation to a visual cue. The text panels also confront the viewer with a fundamental contradiction between the sense of vision and voice as separate forms of knowing: between seeing and speaking. If we are to reconcile this contradiction, then much of Simpson’s work is not simply annexed to text/image relationship, it is fundamentally audiovisual.” Okwui Enwezor, Dean of Academic Affairs at the San Francisco Art Institute next>>>


foto: She, 1992 4 Polaroid prints, 1 engraved plastic plaque. 29 x 85 ¼ inches overall. Collection Jack and Sandra Guthman, Chicago

The exhibition is organized by the American Federation of Arts.
This exhibition is made possible, in part, by grants from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Peter Norton Family Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Lily Auchincloss Foundation, Inc., the Martin Bucksbaum Family Foundation, Emily Fisher Landau, and The Barbara Lee Family Foundation Fund at the Boston Foundation.