Lorna Simpson Collages by Lorna Simpson5/31/2023 ![]() ![]() Read on for a sneak peak of Simpson's collages and get your hands on the whole book HERE. After three decades of risk-taking and often defiant conceptual work combining photographs and texts, collage, video, film, drawing, sculpture, and installation, Lorna is still pushing boundaries. 'In working with the collages, they're almost a way for my subconscious to play': we visit Lorna Simpson in her studio ahead of her exhibition. Taking snippets of text from 1960s ads and collaging them with vintage images, splashy washes of multi-coloured ink, and dreamy skyscapes, Simpson 'creates fantastical coiffures that pay homage to the beauty and language of hair'. 'They are amazing portraits, even for that time, because there is a subtext of political strife in terms of the before and after during the civil rights era.' 'I try to keep the collages very simple, as well as the character, the facing, and all the tropes of advertising from those particular moments,' Simpson once told the Paris Review. Releasing her latest book last month, aptly named 'Lorna Simpson Collages', Simpson edited 160 of her iconic collages torn from vintage beauty ads and textbooks to create a collection celebrating the beauty of black hair. Lorna Simpson’s Glowing Collages of Women and Heads of Hair Lorna Simpson’s Glowing Collages of Women and Heads of Hair The artist’s collages feature portraits of women cut from. If you haven't heard of artist Lorna Simpson yet, then informing you that her last work sold at Sotheby's for a record-breaking six figure sum might go a little way to explaining that she's kind of a big deal right now. ![]()
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