![]() ![]() ![]() Infused with energy and movement, the powerful and mesmerizing expanses resemble clouds and smoke (outsized versions of previous examples). Here, the images are nearly overwhelmed by voluminous masses of deep blue, by turns moody and sensual gradations of ominous grays and cool, bright whites. The artist has also incorporated the magazine portraits into a selection of her large-scale paintings, a new direction she began pursuing in 2015. Simpson has paired the Ebony and Jet portraits with natural phenomena such as geological formations and glacial masses billows of clouds and plumes of smoke architectural elements domestic interiors scientific and anatomical diagrams and a variety of sculptures. She has since experimented, combining the images with all manner of found photography and illustrations from textbooks. Black men and children have featured in her collages, but overwhelmingly she’s focused on advertising images of Black women culled and cut from the pages of the iconic publications.Įarly on, beginning in 2011, Simpson embellished these photographic portraits from the 1960s and 70s with elaborate ink wash swirls and swooshes, grand and colorful gestures that resulted in fanciful and fantastical coiffures. THE IMAGES OF AFRICAN AMERICANS that populate the pages of vintage Ebony and Jet magazines have been a source of inspiration for Lorna Simpson for nearly a decade. ![]()
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