Lorna Simpson

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  9 Props, 1995

  9 3M heat-transferred felt panels - Each panel: 14 1/8 x 10 1/8 in (36.8 x 26 cm) - "In 9 Props Simpson challenges preconceived notions about what constitutes a portrait. Rather than depicting actual people, she photographs nine surrogates -- vases and bowls that are based on objects in the portraits taken by famed Harlem photographer James VanDerZee in the 1920s, 30s, and 80s...Simpson's conceptual portraits are enigmatic and open-ended, relying on the incongruity of her words and images to suggest meaning and context, but without providing obvious answers." -Metropolitan Museum of Art

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  Benny Andrews, 1995

  1 of 9, 3M heat-transferred felt panels - 14 1/8 x 10 1/8 in (36.8 x 26 cm)

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  A man in his bedroom, 1995

  2 of 9, 3M heat-transferred felt panels - 14 1/8 x 10 1/8 in (36.8 x 26 cm)

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  Woman with a goldfish bowl, 1995

  3 of 9, 3M heat-transferred felt panels - 14 1/8 x 10 1/8 in (36.8 x 26 cm)

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  Beau of the ball, 1995

  4 of 9, 3M heat-transferred felt panels - 14 1/8 x 10 1/8 in (36.8 x 26 cm)

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  Dinner with Boxer Harry Willis, 1995

  5 of 9, 3M heat-transferred felt panels - 14 1/8 x 10 1/8 in (36.8 x 26 cm)

• Reclining Nude, 1995

  6 of 9, 3M heat-transferred felt panels - 14 1/8 x 10 1/8 in (36.8 x 26 cm)

• Just before the battle, 1995

  7 of 9, 3M heat-transferred felt panels - 14 1/8 x 10 1/8 in (36.8 x 26 cm)

• Max Robinson, 1995

  8 of 9, 3M heat-transferred felt panels - 14 1/8 x 10 1/8 in (36.8 x 26 cm)

• Tea Time at Madame C.J. Walker's Beauty Salon, 1995

  9 of 9, 3M heat-transferred felt panels - 14 1/8 x 10 1/8 in (36.8 x 26 cm)