id:			158989
accession number:	1995.204.4
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1995.204.4
updated:		2024-03-26 02:00:27.988000

"In a Dream...": Partitions & Time, 1991. Lorna Simpson (American, b. 1960). Gelatin silver print; image: 50.8 x 61.5 cm (20 x 24 3/16 in.); matted: 71.1 x 81.3 cm (28 x 32 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Anonymous Donor and Photographers + Friends United Against AIDS 1995.204.4

title:				Partitions & Time
title in original language:	
series:				"In a Dream..."
series in original language:	
creation date:			1991
creation date earliest:		1991
creation date latest:		1991
current location:		
creditline:			Anonymous Donor and Photographers + Friends United Against AIDS
copyright:			

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culture:	America, 20th century
technique:	gelatin silver print
department:	Photography
collection:	PH - American 1951-Present
type:		Portfolio
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catalogue raisonne: 

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CREATORS

* Lorna Simpson (American, b. 1960)  - artist
Lorna Simpson American, 1960- Lorna Simpson uses photography to invert cultural stereotypes about race, class, and gender by decoding and reordering visual and verbal languages. She began making traditional documentary photographs throughout the United States and Africa in the late 1970s. While in graduate school at the University of California, San Diego (M.F.A., 1985), Simpson began to question and challenge the objectivity of such images and to examine the ways in which these documents are generally perceived. Taking subjects from her own photographs and inserting them into stark backgrounds, she eliminated their contextual clues and instead juxtaposed her own texts and readings, often revealing racial and gender prejudices otherwise subsumed. In the mid-1980s, Simpson won international attention and critical acclaim for her series of large-scale black-and-white self-portraits. Photographing herself from the back, excluding her face and often juxtaposing the portrait with text and appropriated imagery, Simpson used her absence of self to comment on the exclusion of African Americans in history and culture. She continues to address these issues. Simpson (born in New York City) has received many awards and exhibited internationally. In 1990 she was the first African-American woman to be given a one-person exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. She has also been included in the Venice Biennale (1990) and the Whitney Biennial Exhibition (1991, 1993). Simpson lives in Brooklyn. A.W.
* Portfolio II published by Photographers + Friends United Against AIDS  - publisher

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measurements: Image: 50.8 x 61.5 cm (20 x 24 3/16 in.); Matted: 71.1 x 81.3 cm (28 x 32 in.)
state of the work:	
edition of the work: 	edition 11/25

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inscriptions:

	inscription:	Written in pencil on verso: "II"; "Lorna Simpson [signed] 1991 11/25"
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	remark:		

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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Currents and Constellations: Black Art in Focus
	opening date:   2022-02-20T05:00:00
	<i>Currents and Constellations: Black Art in Focus</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 20-June 26, 2022).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Anonymous Donor
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: December 4, 1995
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. <em>Catalogue of Photography</em>. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996.
	page number: 	Reproduced: P. 320
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	Lee, Key Jo, and William Griswold. Perceptual Drift: Black Art and an Ethics of Looking. Cleveland, OH : Cleveland Museum of Art, 2022.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: p. 38, fig. 20
	url:		

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