Laurie Simmons
American · b. 1949 · Photographer
Laurie Simmons is an American photographer and filmmaker. Art historians consider her a key figure of The Pictures Generation and a group of late-1970s women artists that… (Wikipedia)
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Laurie Simmons is an American photographer and filmmaker. Art historians consider her a key figure of The Pictures Generation and a group of late-1970s women artists that emerged as a counterpoint to the male-dominated and formalist fields of painting and sculpture. The group introduced new approaches to photography, such as staged setups, narrative, and appropriations of pop culture and everyday objects that pushed the medium toward the center of contemporary art. Simmons's elaborately constructed images employ psychologically charged human proxies—dolls, ventriloquist dummies, mannequins, props, miniatures and interiors—and also depict people as dolls. Often noted for its humor and pathos, her art explores boundaries such as between artifice and truth or private and public, while raising questions about the construction of identity, tropes of prosperity, consumerism and domesticity, and practices of self-presentation and image-making.
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In the collections of
TateArt Institute of ChicagoHessel Museum of ArtMetropolitan Museum of ArtMuseo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina SofíaMuseum of Modern ArtMuseum of New Zealand Te Papa TongarewaSan Francisco Museum of Modern ArtVanderbilt Museum of ArtVictoria and Albert MuseumWhitney Museum of American Art
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