Lorna Simpson

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  Bio, 1992

  18 dye diffusion color Polaroid prints, 9 engraved plastic plaques - Overall: 98 x 162 in (248.9 x 411.5 cm), "Using textual strategies that range from intermingled personal and historical chronologies of the body in Bio... Simpson traverses the broad terrain of subjugated knowledge about the physical female experience." -Beryl J. Wright

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  Combination Platter, 1992

  6 dye diffusion color Polaroid prints, vinyl lettering - Overall: 50 x 63 in (127 x 160 cm)

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  Eating Disorder, 1992

  Silver gelatin print with over text on clear plastic - 18 x 15 in (45.7 x 38 cm)

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  H.S, 1992

  2 dye diffusion color Polaroid prints, engraved plexiglass - 49 1/2 x 20 1/2 in (125.7 x 52 cm)

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  Holding and Breaking, 1992

  3 dye diffusion color Polaroid prints, engraved plexiglass - 73 x 20.5 in (185.4 x 52 cm)

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  Landscape / Body Parts I, II & III, 1992

  Each panel: 2 dye diffusion color Polaroid prints, engraved plexiglass - 49 1/2 x 20 1/2 in (125.7 x 52 cm)

• Lower Region, 1992

  3 dye diffusion color Polaroid prints, engraved plexiglass - 25 x 60 1/2 in (63.5 x 153.7 cm)

• Magdalena, 1992

  6 dye diffusion color Polaroid prints, 2 engraved plastic plaques - Overall: 63 x 78 in (160 x 198 cm)

• Nervous Conditions, 1992

  2 dye diffusion color Polaroid prints, engraved plexiglass - 49 1/2 x 20 1/2 in (125.7 x 52 cm)

• Practical Joke, 1992

  2 dye diffusion color Polaroid prints - 26 x 43 in (66 x 109.2 cm)

• She, 1992

  4 dye diffusion color Polaroid prints, 1 engraved plastic plaque - Overall: 28 7/8 x 85 1/8 x 2 in (73.3 x 216.2 x 5.1 cm), "In works such as She (1992), the female form is beheaded by the word “Female,” which comes to replace a tangible subject identity with a hypercontextualized representation. This active deviance from portraiture’s claim that the face is the window to the soul is a defining element in Simpson’s work, which introduces gray into the black-and-white binaries of absence and presence, loss and possession, and the desired and the undesirable." -The Studio Museum in Harlem

• Suit, 1992

  3 dye diffusion color Polaroid prints, 1 engraved plastic plaque - Overall: 76 x 44 1/2 in (193 x 113 cm), "Stretching across three panels, about six feet tall, in a business suit and short-cropped hair, it stands erect, a symbol of phallic power. This vertical axis of authority, however, is disturbed by a slight shift in the shoulders, the resting of hand on hip. Here is another classic pose: that of a black woman ready to give someone the business. As the plaque at right (the same side as the raised hand) states, she is: 'An average size woman in an average suit with illsuited thoughts.'" -Kellie Jones

• Untitled (6 Candles), 1992

  25 color Polaroid prints - Overall: 125 x 105 x 1 1/2 in (317.5 x 266.7 x 3.8 cm)

• Untitled (box suit shoe), 1992

  18 dye diffusion color Polaroid prints, 12 engraved plastic plaques - Overall: 90 x 162 in (228.6 x 411.5 cm)

• Untitled (lips), 1992

  Lithograph with flocking - 24 1/8 x 15 in (61.3 x 38.1 cm)

• Shoe Lover, 1992

  3 dye diffusion color Polaroid prints, 2 engraved plastic plaques - Overall: 29 1/2 x 77 3/4 in (74.9 x 197.5 cm)