“Freedom is Lorna Simpson’s starting point and her permanent theme,” Teju Cole wrote in The New York Times Magazine about her London show. And like a true New York native, she almost always wears all black - unless she’s wearing colorful dresses by Duro Olowu, a Nigerian-born, London-based designer and the husband of Thelma Golden, the Studio Museum’s director and chief curator. And after 30-plus years working in multimedia, she recently told Vogue she has taken up painting.Īs a visionary artist who continues to reinvent herself and push boundaries of perception, Simpson is also closely connected with the Studio Museum in Harlem, where she worked early in her career as an intern. In May, she was honored at the the Whitney Museum’s star-studded annual gala for her innovative explorations of race and gender identity. The artist has had a busy few months: Her first solo show in London opened earlier this year at Hauser & Wirth, an esteemed contemporary and modern art gallery, and closed in April. “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,” she once told the Paris Review.
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