id:			338364
accession number:	2019.73.4
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2019.73.4
updated:		2025-06-18 11:14:28.295000

10: The Artist as Catalyst: Cure/Heal, 1992. Lorna Simpson (American, b. 1960). Screenprint; sheet: 65.9 x 66 cm (25 15/16 x 26 in.); image: 43.2 x 50 cm (17 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
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series:				10: The Artist as Catalyst
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creation date:			1992
creation date earliest:		1992
creation date latest:		1992
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creditline:			Gift of Linda and Jack Lissauer, M.D. to commemorate The Print Club of Cleveland's centennial, 2019
copyright:			© Lorna Simpson

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culture:	America
technique:	screenprint
department:	Prints
collection:	PR - Screenprint
type:		Print
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CREATORS

* Lorna Simpson (American, b. 1960)  - artist
Lorna Simpson uses photography to invert cultural stereotypes about race, class, and gender by decoding and reordering visual and verbal languages. Born in Brooklyn, she began taking documentary photographs throughout the United States and abroad in the late 1970s. While in graduate school at the University of California, San Diego (M.F.A., 1985), Simpson began to question the objectivity of such images and examine how these documents are generally perceived. In the mid-1980s, Simpson garnered critical acclaim for her series of large-scale black-and-white portraits of Black men and women. Photographed from behind and inserted into stark, flat backgrounds, Simpson juxtaposed her anonymous portraits with poetic text fragments to reveal underlying racial and gender stereotypes in American culture. In 1990, Simpson became the first African-American woman to present a one-person exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
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measurements: Sheet: 65.9 x 66 cm (25 15/16 x 26 in.); Image: 43.2 x 50 cm (17 x 19 11/16 in.)
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edition of the work: 	number 9

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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

	Jack and Linda Lissauer, Shaker Heights, OH
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	the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: March 4, 2019
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RELATED WORKS

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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
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IMAGES