Lorna Simpson Special Characters
Sep 01, 2020
2 minutes
HG MASTERS
hen Lorna Simpson debuted a suite of large paintings of ghostly, surreal figures—including a woman with a leopard’s face robed in leopard print standing over a leopard with a woman’s face—at the 56th Venice Biennale in 2015, it marked an artistic reinvention more than 30 years into her already lauded, canonical practice. As a young artist in the late 1980s Simpson had rocketed to acclaim for
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