‘Everrrything’ will debut a rich array of recent and never-before-seen works by the multidisciplinary artist Lorna Simpson. Louis as part of their ‘Street Views’ series. Concurrent with her exhibition at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles, two video works – ‘Redhead’ (2018) and ‘Blue Love’ (2020) – will be projected on the facade of the Contemporary Art Museum St. Paul Getty Medal, honoring her extraordinary contribution to the practice, understanding, and support of the arts. In 2019, Simpson was awarded the esteemed J. ‘Everrrything’ also debuts new sculptural works, both indoors and outdoors, that further invite viewers into the intricacies of Simpson’s vision. The new works on view reveal the ways in which Simpson’s multidisciplinary, multivalent practice uniquely deploys metaphor, metonymy, and formal prowess to offer a powerful response to the daily experience of American life now. Collages on view continue the artist’s ongoing exploration of the medium through her appropriation and reimagining of imagery from vintage issues of Ebony and Jet magazines, which have been integral sources for Simpson over the last decade. Expanding her critically admired Ice series, Simpson’s new paintings allure viewers with layers of paradoxes, threading dichotomies of figuration and abstraction, past and present, destruction and creation.
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