Metro Pictures, New York
Private Collection, Los Angeles
Private Collection, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner
New York, Sperone Westwater, Laurie Simmons, February - March 2005 (another example exhibition)
John Dorsey, “Photographer gets dummies to say the smartest things”, The Baltimore Sun, May 25, 1997 (another example illustrated)
Frank Ahrens, “Laurie Simmons Toys with Reality”, The Washington Post, July 20, 1997 (another example illustrated)
Laurie Simmons and Karen Rosenberg, “This is No Cakewalk”, New York Magazine, November 21, 2005, pp. 82-83 (another example illustrated)
American • 1949
Laurie Simmons is an American photographer and filmmaker. Known for her curated domestic scenes using dolls and miniature objects, Simmons questions the truth behind photographic realism and the stereotypes of American culture. In her critically acclaimed series Walking Objects, Simmons offers commentary on how women are represented in popular media through a memorably surreal image. The artist emerged in the 1980s as a prominent member of the 'Pictures Generation' alongside Cindy Sherman and Louise Lawler. Today, Simmons' work is found in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, among others.
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