6/8/2023 0 Comments Lorna simpson collagesIt was in San Diego that Lorna Simpson developed her signature conceptual style harmonising two passions: photography and poetry. Published by Chronicle Books, it features over 150 of the artist’s distinctive collages, created between 2011 2017. She received her BFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts in New York and went on to receive her MFA from the University of California, San Diego. Simpson’s exploration of Black hair as a source of power is the subject of her latest book, Lorna Simpson Collages. To Simpson, photography “opened up a dialogue with the world” and she went on to pursue her education in Photography (Vogue). She got her first Polaroid camera by cutting and mailing coupons from Kleenex boxes. Lorna Simpson was born in 1960 in Brooklyn, New York. Lorna Simpson’s thought-provoking photographs, collages, paintings and films challenge and redefine malleable constructions of history and identity through the appropriation of figure and text. Her work encourages self and societal reflection. But Simpson has been a premier force for conceptual art - principally photography and collage - since 1985 when the artist graduated with her MFA from the University of California, San Diego. In 2018, Vogue nominated the enigmatic multidisciplinary artist Lorna Simpson as “America’s most defiant conceptual artist” anticipating her Hauser & Wirth exhibition “Unanswerable” in London.
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