Metropolitan Museum of Art Exhibition(1)

Metropolitan Museum of Art Exhibition | Lorna Simpson—The Gaze of Women 🔹Lorna Simpson is an African American female artist. Early in her career, as part of the new generation of conceptual photographers following the Pictures Generation, she became known for her photo-text installations, such as Guarded Conditions (1989) [as seen on p13]. 🌅🌿 Through images and text, she explores issues of identity, gender, race, and history. 🔹The Metropolitan Museum's current exhibition, Source Notes, focuses on Simpson's work from 2014 onwards. 🌅🌿 She has moved beyond her early style to create new works that combine painting and photography. 🔹Simpson has cut out numerous female portraits from old magazines that can be seen as essentials in African American households—Ebony and Jet. She digitally enlarges these images, transfers them to fiberglass panels via silkscreen printing, and then overlays and surrounds them with hand-drawn colored ink, obscuring or highlighting facial features. 🌅🌿 This process reveals the idealized female images that these magazines tried to construct. 🌇🌟 #NewYork 🌅🌿