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LORNA SIMPSON (1960 - ) Cure/Heal.
Color screenprint on Lenox paper, 1992. 400x502 mm; 15 3/4x19 3/4 inches, full margins. Signed, dated and numbered 8/100 in pencil, lower margin. From the 10: Artist as Catalyst portfolio, published by the experimental exhibition website, the Alternative Museum.
Other impressions of this print can be found in several institutional collections, including the Brooklyn Museum, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Harvard Art MuseumFogg Museum and the Washington University Gallery of Art, St. Louis.
In the early 1990s, Lorna Simpson's artwork shifted away from depicting the entire figure, instead showcasing fragments representing the human figure. She describes her process, "By presenting these clichés about women, I'm dealing with the language of stereotypes. I'm pointing to the fact that the wrong questions are so often asked, and this is why you don't know anything about this person. I intentionally sought to avoid presenting a 'them and us' situation, them being a white audience. It is also a self description, because these stereotypes cross the boundaries of race and gender. It is not necessarily pointing a finger at any individual's ideology, but at the language of stereotypes. Stereotypes don't reveal anything about a woman or an experience anyway. So I am suggesting that clichés and assumptions should be discarded."
