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4 de mar. de 2014 · Laurie Simmons began showing her photographs in New York in the late ’70s: black-and-white, and then candy-colored scenarios with plastic dolls in 1950s-style domestic interiors. In one shot, a woman stands in a kitchen before a table packed with food; in another, a woman sits alone on a couch beside an open newspaper.
Walking House. 1989. In Simmons's first photographs, made in the mid–1970s, female dolls in dollhouse interiors cook and clean, performing the typical chores of a housewife. Both the dolls and the stereotypes they embody evoke middle-class America in the 1950s. Like many of her contemporaries, Simmons has used the material of popular culture ...
Simmons’s series The Love Doll, 2009–11, moves away from 1950s dolls and props in miniature to contemporary, life-size dolls that are staged in real-life settings. Unlike Jane and the early figurines that activate nostalgia, the scaled-to-life dolls, though generic, incite empathy through the implied, yet unresolved, narratives Simmons ...
16 de ago. de 2015 · Biography. Laurie Simmons (b. 1949), a central figure of the Pictures Generation, is a photographer and filmmaker who imbues her subjects (primarily dolls, puppets, and other inanimate human-like entities) with living energy, suffusing synthetic spaces with nostalgia colored by an adult’s memories, longing, and regret.
11 de mar. de 2015 · Laurie Simmons is a New York–based artist. The photographs in her upcoming exhibition “Laurie Simmons: How We See” signal a shift in her work—each depicts a female figure with painted eyelids that emulate open eyes, and frames her within the banality of conventional portraiture. Accentuating the gap between the real and the presented ...
Laurie Simmons has created a universe in a more literal sense than most artists in that her work for the last three decades has involved the creation of a world of homes and romantic landscapes peopled with dolls, puppets, ventriloquist dummies, and the occasional human being. I visited with her in her studio/office this past September.
2 de dez. de 2012 · Laurie Simmons’s sense of scale. Simmons’s first show opened at Artists Space in January, 1979. She didn’t want to include any photographs that had dolls in them—the associations still ...
