Lorna Simpson. (Preview).WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART Whitney Museum of American Art, in New York City, founded in 1930 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. It was an outgrowth of the Whitney Studio (1914–18), the Whitney Studio Club (1918–28), and the Whitney Studio Galleries (1928–30). In this fall's look at the art of Lorna Simpson Lorna Simpson (Born 1960-) is an African American artist and photographer who made her name in the 1980s and 1990s with artworks such as Guarded Conditions and Square Deal. , the Whitney offers not one but two tightly focused exhibitions. On the second floor, the recently completed film installation 31, which premiered at Documenta11, will be accompanied by screenings of three earlier works--Call Waiting, 1997; Recollection, 1998; and Duet, 2000--which, according to Whitney film and video curator Chrissie Iles, articulate Simpson's investment in the tradition of auteurs
The term auteur (French for author) is used to describe film directors (or, more rarely, producers, or writers) who are considered to have a distinctive, recognizable style, because they (a) repeatedly like Jean-Luc Godard and Chantal Akerman. Meanwhile, a group of new photo-based works selected by Whitney curator of photography Sylvia Wolf promise to extend Simpson's signature explorations of portraiture and language, focusing her examination of the semiotics semiotics or semiology, discipline deriving from the American logician C. S. Peirce and the French linguist Ferdinand de Saussure. It has come to mean generally the study of any cultural product (e.g., a text) as a formal system of signs. of gender and race. Oct. 11-Jan. 26. |
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