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: Call Waiting, 1997. Video installation, 16mm black-and-white film transferred to DVD. 13 minutes, 11 seconds, sound. 12 silver gelatin prints with silk-screened texts. 20 x 16 inches each. Courtesy the artist and Sean Kelly Gallery, New York

In the mid-80s Lorna Simpson became well known with large-scale photograph and text confronting and challenging conventional views of gender, identity, culture, history, and memory. In the mid-90s Simpson began to create large multi-panel photographs printed on felt that depict the site of public, yet unseen, sexual encounters. More recently the center theme of her art is identity and desire presented on moving images. In Call Waiting, she features couples engaging in intimate yet incomplete conversations that elude easy interpretation but seem to plumb the mysteries of identity and desire. next>>>

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.