The artist has exhibited widely with solo presentations at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago Haus der Kunst, Munich and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, among many others. Simpson consistently explores other avenues for her visual investigations and has also incorporated collage and painting into her practice. From the 1990s onwards, Simpson has looked to printing photographs on felt while also exploring the capacity of film and video to expand on the core themes of her practice-desire and isolation. She created large-scale photographic works with spare, staged images of Black figures, seen from behind or in fragments, on neutral studio backgrounds with incisive accompanying text. During the 1980s, she developed a visual strategy grounded in Conceptualism. Simpson received her BFA in photography from the School of Visual Arts in New York in 1983, and an MFA in visual arts from the University of California, San Diego in 1985. Simpson has built a multidisciplinary practice-including film, video, painting, drawing, collage, and sculpture-to expand her conceptual concerns. Early in her practice, Simpson committed to examining the role and possibilities of photography in the articulations of identity, culture, gender, and race, with an awareness of photography’s history. 1960, Brooklyn, NY) examines notions of representation using techniques as varied as the juxtaposition of text and staged photography, to collage using imagery from Jet and Ebony magazines on paper.
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