Lorna Simpson, Two Sisters and Two Tongues, 1991
Images of Lorna Simpson, Two Sisters and Two Tongues
Two Sisters and Two Tongues, 1991
Color Polaroids and engraved Plexiglas plaques
32 ½ × 83 ¼ in. (81.8 × 211.5 cm)
Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Gift of Susan and Lewis Manilow in honor of Gerald S. Elliott, 1993.32.a-f. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago.
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Exhibitions
- Atrium Project:Lorna Simpson–
- Long Billowing blue smoke fills the bottom of two side-by-side panels. Layers of white icicle formations obscure black-and-white newspaper clippings in the middle sections of each panel. Behind the forms, a wash of black, grey, and white fills the tops of each panel.
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- Lorna Simpson, Flipside, 1991
- Long A pair of black-and-white photographs with matching black frames and solid black backgrounds capture a portrait of a woman with short, kinky, black hair from behind and a wooden mask from behind with a carved chin-length wig that curls at the ends and comes to a point at the top. Centered below is a black label with white text that reads "the neighbors were suspicious of her hairstyle."
