Abstract
- The Metropolitan Museum of Artwork is internet hosting the primary museum survey of work by acclaimed artist Lorna Simpson.
- Now on view by means of November 2, the exhibition options over 30 of works from the final 10 years.
For Lorna Simpson, pictures are at all times up for negotiation. A pioneer of conceptual pictures, the New York-based artist is lauded for her capacity to unravel the methods we reckon and wrestle with id, difficult conventional narratives by means of textual content and picture. Increasing on her spectacular oeuvre of movie, pictures and collage, Simpson has spent the final decade delving into portray, constructing on her earlier themes whereas introducing new visible textures and strategies.
The Metropolitan Museum of Artwork is at present internet hosting the primary museum survey devoted to Simpson’s painterly chapter. Titled Supply Notes, the exhibition brings collectively greater than 30 items, shedding gentle on the artist’s technical brilliance and eye for repurposing historical past with poetic precision.
Works on view embrace “True Worth (2015) and “Three Figures (2014), key items from Simpson’s monumental presentation on the 2015 Venice Biennale, alongside “did time elapse” (2024) from her latest physique of work, Earth and Sky.
The title displays Simpson’s use of archival supplies — from classic editions of Ebony and Jet to star maps and minerals — throughout her follow. Minimize, collaged and puzzled again collectively, these fragments, typically organized non-chronologically, mirror the artist’s personal wealthy, layered course of. By way of paint, they achieve new resonance, constructing bridges between the previous and what’s deeply current.
Lorna Simpson: Supply Notes is now on view in New York by means of November 2.
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