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The Bed
Lorna Simpson
Contemporary Art
Through a poetic Black feminist approach, Lorna Simpson explores the limitations of respite and retreat in this felt-based work. The photographs of empty hotel beds, framed by open doorways, capture a contradictory state of security and vulnerability, which the artist echoes in text on the adjacent panel. In suggesting, rather than representing, the body, Simpson invokes a sense of intimacy and pleasure that might be interrupted by the racialized gaze.
MEDIUM
Serigraph on felt
DATES
1995, reprinted 2016
DIMENSIONS
panels a-d: 35 9/16 × 22 1/16 × 3/16 in. (90.3 × 56 × 0.5 cm)
panel e: 7 1/2 × 6 × 3/16 in. (19.1 × 15.2 × 0.5 cm) (show scale)
SIGNATURE
Signed and titled verso
COLLECTIONS
Contemporary Art
ACCESSION NUMBER
2019.3a-e
CREDIT LINE
Gift from the collection of Peggy Jacobs Bader in honor of Anne Pasternak and Lorna Simpson
CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION
Serigraph on four felt panels and one felt text panel.
MUSEUM LOCATION
This item is not on view
CAPTION
Lorna Simpson (American, born 1960). The Bed, 1995, reprinted 2016. Serigraph on felt, panels a-d: 35 9/16 × 22 1/16 × 3/16 in. (90.3 × 56 × 0.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift from the collection of Peggy Jacobs Bader in honor of Anne Pasternak and Lorna Simpson, 2019.3a-e (Photo: Image courtesy of Sean Kelly Gallery, CUR.2019.3a-e_Simpson_SeanKellyGallery_photograph.jpg)
EDITION
Edition: 4/5 (2 APs)
IMAGE
overall, CUR.2019.3a-e_Simpson_SeanKellyGallery_photograph.jpg. Image courtesy of Sean Kelly Gallery, 2019
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