id: 338364 accession number: 2019.73.4 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2019.73.4 updated: 2023-12-08 05:52:16.304000 10: The Artist as Catalyst: Cure/Heal, 1992. Lorna Simpson (American, b. 1960). Screenprint; image: 40 x 50 cm (15 3/4 x 19 11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Linda and Jack Lissauer, M.D. to commemorate The Print Club of Cleveland's centennial, 2019 2019.73.4 © Lorna Simpson title: Cure/Heal title in original language: series: 10: The Artist as Catalyst series in original language: creation date: 1992 creation date earliest: 1992 creation date latest: 1992 current location: creditline: Gift of Linda and Jack Lissauer, M.D. to commemorate The Print Club of Cleveland's centennial, 2019 copyright: © Lorna Simpson --- culture: America, 20th century technique: screenprint department: Prints collection: PR - Screenprint type: Print find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- 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. --- measurements: Image: 40 x 50 cm (15 3/4 x 19 11/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: number 9 support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Currents and Constellations: Black Art in Focus opening date: 2022-02-20T05:00:00 Currents and Constellations: Black Art in Focus. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 20-June 26, 2022). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Jack and Linda Lissauer, Shaker Heights, OH date: footnotes: citations: the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: March 4, 2019 footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS 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: pp. 33-47; reproduced: p. 32, fig. 14 url: --- IMAGES