For nearly three decades, Lorna Simpson (b. 1960, Brooklyn, NY) has been celebrated as an artist, photographer, filmmaker and thinker. She is perhaps best known for her work that asserts the female form as a site for discourse on racialized and gendered modes of visual representation. From small pictures and intimate gestures to multimedia meditations and installations, Simpson’s works remain unrivaled in their courage to challenge and critique traditional modes of addressing identity thro…
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