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: Interior/Exterior, Full/Empty, 1997
Video installation, 7 channel DVD projection
of 16 mm black-and-white film. 20 minutes, sound
18 gelatin silver prints with silk-screened texts. 20 x 16 inches each. Video installation commissioned by the Wexner Center for the Arts at the Ohio State University. Courtesy the artist and Sean Kelly Gallery, New York

Lorna Simpson, born 1960 in Brooklyn, New York, received her BFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts, New York, and her MFA from the University of California, San Diego. Today, Lorna Simpson is one of the leading artists working in the United States. more foto >>>

The first mid-career survey of the artist’s work includes approximately seventeen of Simpson’s acclaimed image and text works (1985–92) and seven major photographs on felt (1994–2005), six film installations from 1997 to 2004, including Call Waiting; Easy to Remember; Interior/Exterior, Full/Empty, a seven-part projection and related series of photographs; and 31, a video calendar in which the artist closely observes a month in the public and private life of an unknown woman. The exhibition will conclude with the artist’s recent photographs (2001–03), which consist of a group of ghostly, silhouetted profiles of black women and men accompanied by the titles of paintings, songs, and films that date from the 1790s to the 1970s.

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.