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Construction<\/em> by Lorna Simpson
22.1875″x17.0625″; collage on paper; 2020. \u00a9 Lorna Simpson
Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. Photo: James Wang.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

COLLAGE ON VIEW<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorna Simpson: Give Me Some Moments<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

at Hauser & Wirth in New York, New York, USA
Online<\/a> only starting 2 May 2020<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

“Give Me Some Moments” finds Lorna Simpson building upon themes that are essential to her practice: the nature of representation, identity, gender, race, and history, which are all central to contemporary culture and American life today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more than 30 years, Simpson\u2019s powerful works have entangled viewers in an equivocal web of meaning, drawing upon techniques of collage through the use of found images, often culled from the pages of Jet<\/em> and Ebony<\/em> magazines from the 1950s to the 1970s. These publications focused on subjects of lifestyle, culture, and politics from an African-American perspective and are credited with chronicling black lives and issues so sorely under-represented elsewhere in the media. Through this exhibition, Simpson continues to develop the language of the found image as a source for her work, deftly navigating the territory between figuration and abstraction, past and present to open up the history of representation in images.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new collages feature a series of female and male protagonists, often the focal point of the compositions, who Simpson splices with architectural features, animals, and natural elements to create scenarios that are at once poetic and arresting. In these collages, Simpson uses the devices of extreme cropping and close-ups to hone in on sections of the bodies portrayed. As she explains, “the notion of fragmentation, especially of the body, is prevalent in our culture, and it\u2019s reflected in my works. We\u2019re fragmented not only in terms of how society regulates our bodies but in the way we think about ourselves.” In Flames<\/em> (2019), Simpson forefronts women\u2019s heads and inserts scenes of burning buildings in place of advertised coiffed wigs, while in California<\/em> (2019) she intertwines geological source material from a 1931 textbook with domestic scenery, encouraging new narratives to emerge from the unexpected settings. While under quarantine, Simpson has continued to engage the analog nature of the collage process, directly cutting and pasting from Ebony<\/em> magazines, resulting in three new surreal portraits that are featured in this exhibition: Solar Glare<\/em> (2020), Walk with Me<\/em> (2020), and Lyra night sky styled in NYC<\/em> (2020).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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California<\/em> by Lorna Simpson
22.25″x16.4375″; found photograph and collage on paper; 2019. \u00a9 Lorna Simpson
Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. Photo: James Wang<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Since the beginning of her practice Simpson has used her work to suggest or point to a narrative while simultaneously imbuing a distinct sense of ambiguity. The collage works use fragmented figures to continue these notions as well as exemplify a surreal side of Simpson\u2019s practice through multifaceted layers of both abstraction and figuration.

In 2019, Simpson was awarded the J. Paul Getty Medal, honouring her extraordinary contribution to practice, understanding, and support of the arts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(adapted from the gallery’s press materials)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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INFORMATION<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hauser & Wirth<\/strong>
548 West 22nd Street
New York, New York 10011 USA
(212) 790-3900<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hours:
This exhibition is online only. To access it, please visit:
https:\/\/www.vip-hauserwirth.com\/lorna-simpson-give-me-some-moments\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

WEBSITE<\/a> | FACEBOOK<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

COLLAGE ON VIEW Lorna Simpson: Give Me Some Moments at Hauser & Wirth in New York, New York, USAOnline only starting 2 May 2020 “Give Me Some Moments” finds Lorna Simpson building upon themes that are essential to her practice:…<\/p>\n

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