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Untitled (Woman’s Head)

Laurie Simmons

1976

Gelatin silver print

Edition of 30
Image size: 9 3/4 x 13 7/8 inches (24.8 x 35.2 cm)
Paper size: 15 3/8 x 19 3/4 inches (39.1 x 50.2 cm)
Frame size: 16 3/4 x 16 7/8 inches (42.5 x 42.9 cm)
Signed, titled, dated, and numbered verso
(Inventory #33798)

“They’re not specific to a feminist critique of a housewife in the 1960s but a generalized memory of something that seemed sweet and terrifying and abstract and whitewashed.”

—Laurie Simmons

Laurie Simmons has been dealing issues of women in interior spaces (the space of the mind, the home, and the community) since the mid-1970s. Her seminal early work was some of the first to use set-up photography to create images with intensely psychological subtexts and forcefully feminist content. The 1950s-style constructed interiors used dolls, dollhouse furnishings, miniature props, postcards, interior decoration books, pamphlets and magazines to create images that questioned female stereotypes and American clichés with humor and charm. Simmons has exhibited internationally for forty years and has work in the collections of the International Center of Photography, Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Guggenheim, the Tate, the Stedelijk Museum, among many other museums.

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Laurie Simmons has exhibited widely in the United States and Europe with recent solo exhibitions at the MCA in Chicago, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis and the Jewish Museum in New York Her work is in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Solomon R.Guggenheim Museum, and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington DC; the Hara Museum in Tokyo; and the Stedelijk Museum of Modern Art in Amsterdam, among many others.

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